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William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative politician and political commentator who served as Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan. He also held the post of director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under George H. W. Bush .
The Moral Compass (subtitled A Companion to The Book of Virtues and Stories for a Life's Journey) is a 1995 anthology edited by William Bennett.A follow-up to the 1993 collection The Book of Virtues, it consists of seven chapters devoted to different stages of life, with passages from Western civilization and various other cultures.
William Bennett had served as Secretary of Education for President Ronald Reagan and often made school trips during his tenure. According to Bennett, The Book of Virtues grew out of conversations with teachers, who expressed difficulty in communicating common moral principles to diverse student bodies; as such, he originally intended the ...
The Children's Book of Virtues is a 1995 anthology edited by conservative politician and commentator William Bennett and illustrated by Michael Hague. It collects 31 passages featured in the original Book of Virtues from 1993, and uses the original virtue list as the basis for four new sections. Bennett developed the follow-up amid concerns ...
Seconding speeches were delivered by Lynne Cheney (the wife of former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney), Ohio State Treasurer Ken Blackwell, and former Secretary of Education William Bennett. [17] A benediction was delivered by Reverend Jerry Falwell. [17]
This approach brought Koop into conflict with other administration officials such as Education Secretary William Bennett. In 1988, Koop took the unprecedented action of mailing AIDS information to every U.S. household. This information included the use of condoms as the decisive defense against contracting the disease.
In the clip, where she regaled her audience with memories of the late Tony Bennett while preparing his favorite meal, Ossobuco, Ray's speech and appearance worried viewers. View this post on Instagram
Along with Empower America co-directors William Bennett and Jack Kemp, she called on the Congress to issue a formal declaration of war against the "entire fundamentalist Islamist terrorist network" the day after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. In 2003, she headed the US delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human ...