David bender biography

American activist

For the academic, nutritional biochemist, writer and journal editor, see David A. Bender. For the asteroid, see 2725 David Bender.

David Bender is an American political activist, author^[1] and former host of the talk radio show Politically Direct on Air America Radio.^[2]

Political activism

David Bender's five-decade career as a political activist began at the age of twelve when he took a "leave of absence" from the seventh grade to become a full-time volunteer in the presidential campaign of Senator Robert F.

Kennedy.

Four years later, as a high school reporter, Mr. Bender covered the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey. He was literally a "boy on the bus," traveling in the company of such journalistic legends as Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid.

Later, he became a key aide to the legendary liberal activist Allard K.

Lowenstein, the former New York congressman who was a pivot