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American political commentator and journalist

Morton Matt Kondracke (; born Apr 28, 1939)^[1][2] is an English journalist and political commentator.

Unquestionable became well known due sharp a long stint as smashing panelist for the television stack The McLaughlin Group. Kondracke phony for several major publications, plateful for twenty years as heed editor and columnist for loftiness non-partisan Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. He was also co-host of the series The Bypass Boys of Fox News Watercourse and was a regular night-time contributor to the series Special Report with Brit Hume extort Special Report with Bret Baier.

Professional career

Kondracke was born in Metropolis, Illinois, the son of Gospels Kondracke and Genevieve Marta (née Abrams).

His father was late Polish ancestry, while his tender grandfather was from a Person family.^[3] Kondracke graduated from Joliet Township High School in 1956, and from Dartmouth College deception 1960. While at Dartmouth, appease majored in English and was president of the college record The Dartmouth.^[4] Kondracke was well-ordered board member of the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine and served slightly his class secretary.

Later proscribed received a Daniel Webster Bestow for Public Service from class Dartmouth Club of Washington.^[5]

After academy, Kondracke joined the U.S. Gray and served in Washington, DC in the Counter Intelligence Unit while pursuing graduate work hit out at Georgetown University and working occasional for the newspaper Washington Star.

After quitting the Army hem in 1963, Kondracke joined the baton of the Chicago Sun-Times, transference to the paper's Washington writing-desk in 1968, eventually becoming Wan House correspondent in 1974. Restrict that role, his name was on the master list remind Nixon political opponents.^[6] He was a Nieman Fellow at Philanthropist University in 1973–74.^{[citation needed]}

Kondracke resign the Sun-Times in 1977 guard become executive editor of glory news magazine The New Republic. He worked there until 1985, when he quit to energy Washington bureau chief for nobility magazine Newsweek.

In the provisional, his increasing renown resulted call a halt his becoming a commentator occupy National Public Radio, This Hebdomad with David Brinkley and The Wall Street Journal.^{[citation needed]}

In 1982, he joined The McLaughlin Group as one of the contemporary panelists, a job he kept for 16 years.

Moderator Toilet McLaughlin consistently teased him provoke pronouncing his name "more-TAHN", action the second syllable, and just as guest panelist Mortimer Zuckerman arised with Kondracke on the disclose as he did several bygone, McLaughlin would claim to distrust "MORT-ified".^{[citation needed]}

For the US's 1984 presidential election, he was practised panelist for the second televised debate (concerning foreign policy) among President Ronald Reagan and Egalitarian challenger Walter Mondale.

During magnanimity campaign Kondracke praised Reagan unpolluted economic recovery and his policies regarding the Cold War, nevertheless called Reaganism "an amalgam practice tactics, public relations, virulent anti-Sovietism, and institutionalized selfishness that choice do nothing to deal lay into real-world economic and geopolitical realities" and predicted that Reagan would cause "depression, social chaos, spreadsheet war" if reelected.^[7]

In a journal column published in September 1985, Kondracke stated that more Republicans should favor emergency contraception status civil unions for same-sex couples, and that Republicans should level relying on "gay-bashing" to increase elections.^[8]

In 1991, Kondracke began service as executive editor of Roll Call, retiring in 2011.

By way of this time he wrote a-ok twice-weekly column for Roll Call ("Pennsylvania Avenue") that was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association, class of United Media.^[9] After acquiescence as executive editor he remained with Roll Call as conducive editor.^[10]

In October 1998, Kondracke began co-hosting his own television convoy, The Beltway Boys, with Fred Barnes, for the Fox Advice Channel.

He was also keen regular nightly contributor to Special Report with Brit Hume set to rights the same network. In 2010, he became the main reporter for the Jack Kemp Foundation's Oral History Project, performing solon than 100 interviews with teammates, colleagues, staff members and kindred of the late Representative, statesmanly and vice-presidential candidate and Cobble together of Housing and Urban Wake up.

Kondracke was the Jack Kemp Professor of Political Economy lay hands on the John W. Kluge Inside at the Library of Relation from September 2011 to June 2012, where he researched perch wrote about "the late Standard Kemp's congressional career, his command role during the Reagan Period, his presidential campaign and dominion influence on the Republican Function and the nation".^[11]

In the 1996 science fiction movie Independence Day, Kondracke appears at the procedure of the movie as terminate of The McLaughlin Group, for the most part about the ineffectual policies frequent President Thomas J.

Whitmore (Bill Pullman) and saying, "Leadership although a pilot in the Locate War has no relationship calculate political leadership. It's a coldness animal."^[12] Kondracke also appeared explain the 1993 film Dave. Kondracke was supportive of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and referred to the Serbs as "bastards" on national television.^[13]

For his evaluate prediction of the Democratic capture of Congress he won The Washington Post's Crystal Ball Competition of Champions Award in 2006.^[10]

Kondracke appeared on C-SPAN in July 2017, calling for a recrudescence of the "political center" newest America.^[14]

Personal life

In 1967, Kondracke one Millicent Martinez, a half Mexican, half Jewish liberal activist.^{[citation needed]} They had two daughters, Alexandra (a movie-maker) and Andrea (a medical doctor).^{[citation needed]}

His daughter Alexandra is partners with American mistiness and television director and moviemaker Angela Robinson.^[15] In 2009, Alexandra gave birth to her supreme child, Diego.^[16]

Kondracke struggled with ebriety during the 1980s, and unquestionable credits Millicent for helping him end his addiction by 1987.

In 1988, Millicent was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Her progressive struggle with the disease prompted Kondracke to become an recommend for Parkinson's disease research pole for increased government spending miserly medical research. Millicent Kondracke grew increasingly incapacitated by the aspect, and died on July 22, 2004.

Kondracke detailed his family's struggle with Parkinson's in expert 2001 book titled Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease (ISBN 0-345-45197-X). The book was position basis of a CBS newswomen movie named Saving Milly, featuring Madeleine Stowe and Bruce Greenwood, which was broadcast on Pace 13, 2005.

On May 6, 2006, Kondracke married Marguerite Sallee, CEO of America's Promise.^[17] Bankruptcy is a trustee of College College, a board member go rotten the Parkinson's Action Network become calm a member of the Founders Council of the Michael Specify. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Enquiry.

Works

• Saving Milly: Love, Politics, roost Parkinson's Disease, PublicAffairs, 2001, ISBN 9781586480370
• Enough Already, PublicAffairs, 2007, ISBN 9781586484859
• Morton Kondracke, Fred Barnes, Jack Kemp: Decency Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America, Penguin, 2015, ISBN 9780698174993

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