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Benjamin J. "Ben" Wattenberg (b. 1933, The Bronx, New York) is a prominent American neo-conservative commentator and writer. He graduated from Hobart College in 1955, majoring in English. From 1955 to 1957 he was in the U.S. Air Force, based in San Antonio. He was an aide and speechwriter to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968, and served as an advisor to Hubert Humphrey's race for the Senate in 1970 and Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson's contest for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, and Democratic Party presidential primaries of 1976, and served on the 1972 and 1976 Democratic National Convention platform committees. He first came to national attention as co-author with Richard M. Scammon of The Real Majority , the 1970 analysis believed to have provided the basis for the campaign strategies of the Nixon administration in the 1970 and 1972 elections. His other books include:
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