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Paul D. Burgess (born June 6, 1960) is a conservative American writer. Burgess is a former legislative staffer on Capitol Hill, a former director of foreign-policy speechwriting at the White House, and has written essays for Virginia newspapers.

Contents [hide] 1 Personal 2 Career 3 Controversies 3.1 Clinton military policies 3.2 Hatred of the Left 4 References

[edit]Personal

At the time of his 1999 writing for the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, Burgess was identified by the newspaper as a resident of Fredericksburg, Virginia. By 2006, the newspaper identified Burgess as a resident of Spotsylvania County, Virginia. He grew up in Maui before moving toCheyenne, Wyoming, where he graduated from Central High in 1978 and attended the University of Wyoming. He served in the Marines and traveled with guerillas in Afghanistan.

[edit]Career

Burgess was director of foreign-policy speechwriting at the White House from October 2003 to July 2005. He previously worked for Senators Alan Simpson (R) and Mike Enzi (R) of Wyoming, at the Defense Intelligence Agency after 9/11, and as a speechwriter at the Pentagon for two years.^[1]

[edit]Controversies

[edit]Clinton military policies

In 1999, Burgess wrote of what he saw as the harm done by Bill Clinton to the United States military:

This past decade has seen the evolution of policies first implemented before President Clinton but embraced by him with frenzied enthusiasm that have a