Hat Tip to Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson, whom I heard compair Hugh Hewitt to Ralfphi. Perhaps Duane heard it from Chad The Elder. I don't know.
Hewitt graduated from Harvard College cum laude with an A.B. in Government in 1978. He was Order of the Coif at the University of Michigan Law School and received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1983, magna cum laude. Hewitt clerked for Judges Roger Robb and George MacKinnon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1983-84, and then went on to serve as Special Assistant to Attorneys General William French Smith and Edwin Meese, Assistant Counsel in the White House Counsel's Office, General Counsel for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, where he finished his career in the Reagan Administration as Deputy Director of the agency, having been confirmed by a voice vote in the Senate.
Hewitt returned to California to oversee construction of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace as the Library's executive director from groundbreaking through dedication and opening at the request of former President Richard Nixon, for whom he had worked as a ghostwriter between college and law school in San Clemente, California, and New York City.
Hugh has written many books:
1987: ''First Principles: A Primer of Ideas for the College-Bound Student'' (ISBN 0-89526-793-4)
1998: ''The Embarrassed Believer'' (ISBN 0-8499-1419-1)
2003: ''In, But Not Of : A Guide to Christian Ambition'' (ISBN 0-7852-6395-0)
Click here to listen to Hugh Hewitt's interview with Erick Erickson.
Scroll down to "Monday March 26, 2007", and click on "Listen now".
Click here for an update on what is going on between them.
Go here, and you will see a big "Rudy" add at the top of the page.
Read the interview with Newt from today here and more about it here.
Just look at the archive of his show here, and look at some of the people he has had on.
Yesterday he had Fred Thompson supporter Zach Wamp.
Hugh has also got Newt coming back next week to talk with Romney, or McCain (or both). Read more about it here .
Hugh is very tough.
For an example, listen to the interview from Tuesday March 6, 2007 with Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein after an ill-advised column ran against the troops. Or listen to the hour long interview with the very contentious Andrew Sullivan about his newest book (hour two from the same day). Or go to Friday March 2, 2007 to listen to Helen Thomas and John Zogby hang up on Hugh.
Hugh is also constitutional law professor.
~ Mike
Conservative Commentator Hugh Hewitt: "There's a long way to go until Iowa, but as 2007 opens, the momentum remains where it was throughout 2006, with Mitt Romney." (Hugh Hewitt's Blog, "Steyn, Owens, Romney And Me," http://hughhewitt.townhall.com, 1/4/07)
Conservative Radio Talk show host has long been hosting Romney on his show. He's not "on the record" as endorsing Romney . . . but he sure seems to be quite praiseworthy. It was at Hewitt's suggestion/request that Lowell and John started the Article6Blog.
Buy Hugh Hewitt's "A Mormon in the White House"
And please pray that I can win the thousand dollar prize!