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Margaret Hoover


Margaret Claire Hoover (born December 11, 1977) is an American political commentator, political strategist, media personality, feminist, gay rights activist, author, and great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. President.[1] She is the best-selling author of the book American Individualism: How A New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party, published by Crown Forum in July 2011.[2] Hoover is currently host of PBS's reboot of the conservative interview show Firing Line.[3]

Early life
Hoover was born in Colorado, the daughter of Jean (Williams), a flight attendant, and Andrew Hoover, a mining engineer.[4][5]
Hoover received primary education at Graland Country Day School, an independent co-educational day school in Denver, Colorado.[6] She earned a B.A. in Spanish literature with a minor in political science from Bryn Mawr College in 2001.[7][8] She also attended Davidson College for two years, where she was a member of Warner Hall.[9]
Career
Hoover worked in the White House for the administration of George W. Bush as the Associate Director of Intergovernmental Affairs.[10] She worked on President Bush's re-election campaign in 2004 and was Deputy Finance Director to Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid in 2006–2007.[11] She also worked as a staffer on Capitol Hill for Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart and as Advisor to the Deputy Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security.[12]
Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal,[13] The Daily News,[14] and The Daily Beast.[15]
In October 2011, she debated Howard Dean and Jeff Maddrick in an IQ Squared Debate at New York University over the sustainability of current entitlement obligations to a new generation of Americans.[16][17]
She is on the Board of Overseers at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and on the boards of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association and the Belgian American Educational Foundation.[18][19][20] Hoover serves on the Advisory Council of The American Foundation for Equal Rights and GOProud.[21][22]
In January 2013, she helped found American Unity Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the cause of freedom for gay and lesbian Americans. American Unity fund works in partnership with other national LGBT organizations to help mobilize Republican support for marriage and non-discrimination, and other LGBT issues at the state and federal level.[23]
Hoover's work is committed to publicizing her great-grandfather Herbert Hoover's legacy as a humanitarian and pioneer of the international non-governmental organization, as well as his many other achievements.[24] She appeared in a PBS documentary, Landslide, in 2010.[25]
Media
From 2008 to 2012, Hoover was a Fox News contributor where she appeared on Bill O'Reilly's top-rated show The O'Reilly Factor. In the branded segment "Culture Warrior", she jousted with O'Reilly on a range of topics from entertainment news, to popular culture, to Hollywood and politics. Since 2012, she has been a political contributor for CNN.[26] In April 2018 it was announced she will host the PBS show Firing Line.[27]
She has been a frequent guest on Bill Maher's Real Time on HBO, and has appeared on NBC's Today, CBS's The Early Show, ABC's Good Morning America, at MSNBC, Fox News, C-SPAN, and C-SPAN Book TV.[28][29]
In 2014, she hosted the Toyota Solutions Studio at the Women In The World conference held at Lincoln Center where Hoover interviewed several participants including comedian Sarah Silverman and her sister rabbi Susan Silverman, the Peruvian poet Senna, Ambassador Fatuma Ndangiza, and United Nations Under-Secretary General Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.[30][31]
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (PBS TV Series)
Margaret Hoover is the host of Firing Line with Margaret Hoover, a relaunch of National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr.'s public affairs television show, Firing Line that aired on PBS for 33 years, the longest-running public affairs show in television history with a single host.[32][33] The show premiered on June 2, 2018 on WNET, which serves the New York metropolitan area, and is the largest PBS market in the country.[34][35][36]
Format
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover is a weekly public affairs TV show produced at the WNET Tisch Studios. The program offers a deep exchange of ideas with a single guest on a single issue in its 26-minute runtime.[37][38]
Episodes
The first fourteen episodes of the program featured guests representing a variety of sociopolitical ideologies, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Ohio Governor John Kasich, journalist Gretchen Carlson, Senator Jeff Merkley, "the rising star of the political Left," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,[39] and "accidental icon of the conservative movement," Jordan Peterson.[40][41] Margaret Hoover's interview with Ocasio-Cortez earned national and international attention for her comments ranging from the state of capitalism and the unemployment rate in the United States to the State of Israel.[42][43]  Most recently she interviewed the former governor of New Jersey Chris Christie in which he referred to the crimes that Jared Kushner’s Father Committed as ‘Loathsome‘.[44]
Reception
The New York Times wrote that, "Under Ms. Hoover's direction, the discourse is civil and substantive."[45] A show review by the National Review states, "the reincarnation of Firing Line comes at an interesting time, and a needful one."[46] In the run-up to the show's premier Politico said, "It seems like a great idea, so let's test drive it and see what happens."[47] CNN anchor Poppy Harlow stated that Firing Line with Margaret Hoover "is appointment television in my house" on CNN Newsroom.[48]
Hoover has made multiple television appearances for Firing Line reboot, including Good Morning America, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Real Time with Bill Maher.[49][50][51]
Advocacy for gay rights
She is an advocate for gay rights, including gay marriage, arguing that individual freedom and marriage are conservative values.[52] She testified before the Maryland State Senate on behalf of gay marriage in January 2011, took an active role in the 2012 battle to win gay marriage in New York,[53] encouraging them not to repeal freedom to marry. She has been profiled in The Advocate as "exactly the brand of straight ally we need right now".[54] Chad Griffin asked her to serve on the Advisory Board of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, the non-profit organization funding the Prop 8 Trial (Hollingsworth v. Perry), and is a co-chair and founder of the group Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry. In 2014, Hoover introduced Evan Wolfson at the 10th anniversary celebration of Freedom To Marry. She was introduced by Cynthia Nixon who said Hoover "appeals to the pragmatism of the millennial generation, she believes constitutionally guaranteed rights ought to transcend left versus right, and Democrat versus Republican, and she does so with savvy, skill and style."[55] She serves as treasurer of the American Unity PAC, which supports pro-LGBT Republican Congressional candidates, and president of the American Unity Fund, which supports the work of pro-freedom Republicans nationally.[56][57]
In 2013, Hoover was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage in Hollingsworth v. Perry.[58]
Personal life
Hoover is married to fellow CNN contributor John Avlon, a former Rudy Giuliani speechwriter, senior columnist for Newsweek, and former Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast.[59] They have a son, Jack, born in 2013, and a daughter, Toula Lou, born in 2015.[60][61]
Bibliography
American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party, Margaret Hoover, 2011, Crown Forum[62]




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