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Ben Wattenberg

AKA Benjamin J. Wattenberg

Born: 26-Aug-1933
Birthplace: Bronx, NY

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Pundit, Columnist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Think Tank moderator

Military service: USAF (1955-57)

Was a speechwriter for President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Father: Judah Wattenberg (d. 23-May-1996)
Mother: Rachel Gutman Wattenberg (d. 1975)
Sister: Rebecca Schull (actress)
Wife: Marna Hade Wattenberg (div., d. 11-Aug-1997)
Daughter: Sarah Wattenberg
Son: Daniel Wattenberg
Daughter: Ruth Wattenberg
Wife: Diane Abelman
Daughter: Rachel Wattenberg

    High School: PS 95, Bronx, NY
    University: BA English, Hobart College, Geneva, NY (1955)
    Professor: Mary Washington College

    US News and World Report contributing editor 1989-90
    American Enterprise Institute 1976
    Coalition for a Democratic Majority Cofounder
    Austrian Ancestry Paternal
    German Ancestry Maternal
    Jewish Ancestry

Author of books:
The Real Majority (1970, with Richard Scammon)
The First Universal Nation: Leading Indicators & Ideas about the Surge of America in the 1990s (1991)
Values Matter Most (1995)


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