Question: Ben T. Elliott directed an American author who has maintained what in her writings?

full_context: Document 1: Dana Perino: Dana Marie Perino (born May 9, 1972) is an American political commentator and author who served as the 26th White House Press Secretary, serving under President George W. Bush from September 14, 2007 to January 20, 2009. She was the second female White House Press Secretary, after Dee Dee Myers, who served during the Clinton Administration. She is currently a political commentator for Fox News, while also serving as a co-host of the network's talk show "The Five", and is a book publishing executive at Random House. Starting Monday, October 2nd, she will host "The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino" on Fox News.
Document 2: Ben Scott (policy advisor): Ben Scott is a Senior Advisor to the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. and a Visiting Fellow at the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung in Berlin. Previously, he was a Policy Advisor for Innovation at the US Department of State where he worked at the intersection of technology and foreign policy. In a small team of advisors to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he worked to help steward the 21st Century Statecraft agenda with a focus on technology policy, social media and development. Prior to joining the State Department, for six years he led the Washington office for Free Press, a non-profit organization dealing exclusively with media and communications policy. As policy director for Free Press, he headed a team of lawyers, researchers, and advocates, and directed a public interest policy agenda to expand affordable access to an open Internet and to foster more public service journalism. He was frequently called as an expert witness before the U.S. Congress. Before joining Free Press, he worked as a legislative aide handling telecommunications policy for then-Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the U.S. House of Representatives. He holds a PhD in communications from the University of Illinois. Ben is a 1995 graduate of the University of Illinois Laboratory High School. He is the author of several scholarly articles on American journalism history and the politics of media regulation as well as co-editor of two books.
Document 3: Elliott V. Bell: Elliott V Bell (September 25, 1902 - January 1983) was a former financial writer for The New York Times who managed the two successful gubernatorial campaigns for his friend, Thomas E. Dewey. Bell was appointed Superintendent of Banks for the State of New York in 1943 by then Governor Thomas E Dewey. Bell was also editor and publisher of "BusinessWeek".
Document 4: Greater Talent Network (GTN): Greater Talent Network Speakers Bureau (GTN) is an American speakers bureau based in New York. GTN is known for its roster of prominent clients, including authors Michael Lewis, P.J. O'Rourke and Jeffrey Toobin; actors Laura Linney and Danny Glover; musicians Paula Abdul and Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds; Navy SEALs Marcus Luttrell and Kevin Lacz; athletes Alex Rodriguez and Eli Manning; sports executives Billy Beane and Bob Myers; national security experts Raymond Kelly, Valerie Plame Wilson, and General Wesley Clark; and finance/technology disruptors Dan Schulman, and Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, founders of theSkimm.
Document 5: Ann Coulter: Ann Hart Coulter ( ; born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative social and political commentator, writer, syndicated columnist, and lawyer. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public and private events.
Document 6: Speeches and debates of Ronald Reagan: The speeches and debates of Ronald Reagan comprise the seminal oratory of the 40th President of the United States. Reagan began his career in Iowa as a radio broadcaster. In 1937, he moved to Los Angeles where he started acting, first in films and later television. After delivering a stirring speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. In 1980 as the Republican candidate for president of the United States, he defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter. He was reelected in a landslide in 1984, proclaiming that it was "Morning in America". Reagan left office in 1989.
Document 7: Mary Matalin: Mary Joe Matalin (born August 19, 1953) is an American political consultant well known for her work with the Republican Party. She has served under President Ronald Reagan, was campaign director for George H. W. Bush, was an assistant to President George W. Bush, and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. Matalin has been chief editor of Threshold Editions, a conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster, since March 2005. She is married to Democratic political consultant James Carville. She appears in the award-winning documentary film "" and also played herself, opposite her husband, James Carville, John Slattery, and Mary McCormack in the short lived HBO series "K Street".
Document 8: Nancy Reagan: Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American film actress and the wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. She served as the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
Document 9: Lou Cannon: Louis Cannon (born 1933) is an American journalist, non-fiction author, and biographer. He was state bureau chief for the "San Jose Mercury News" in the late 1960s and later senior White House correspondent of the "Washington Post" during the Ronald Reagan administration. He is a prolific biographer of US President Ronald Reagan and has written five books about him.
Document 10: Ronald Reagan: Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American statesman and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Before his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California, from 1967 to 1975, after a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader.
Document 11: Bay Buchanan: Angela Marie "Bay" Buchanan (born December 23, 1948) is a prominent conservative political commentator who served as Treasurer of the United States under President Ronald Reagan. She is also the sister of conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan.
Document 12: Ben T. Elliott: Ben T. Elliott is an American writer who served as President Ronald Reagan’s director of speechwriting from 1982 to 1986. In this capacity he directed better known speechwriters like Peggy Noonan and Peter Robinson, both of whom he hired.
Document 13: Judson Welliver Society: The Judson Welliver Society is a bipartisan social club composed exclusively of former presidential speechwriters in the United States. The group is named after Judson C. Welliver, the "literary clerk" to President Warren Harding, usually credited as being the first presidential speechwriter. Group meetings are usually held after major presidential speeches, such as the State of the Union. Active members have included William Safire (a Nixon writer who often hosted meetings), Jack Valenti who was a veteran of the Johnson administration, Pat Buchanan (Nixon and Reagan), David Gergen (Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton), Tony Snow (speechwriter for George H. W. Bush and press secretary for George W. Bush), Michael Waldman (Clinton), George Stephanopoulos (Clinton), James Fallows (Carter), Chris Matthews (Carter), Hendrik Hertzberg (Carter), Anthony R. Dolan (Reagan), Michael Gerson (George W. Bush), and Clark Clifford, who wrote speeches for Harry Truman.
Document 14: Peggy Noonan: Margaret Ellen "Peggy" Noonan (born September 7, 1950) is an American author of several books on politics, religion, and culture, and a weekly columnist for "The Wall Street Journal". She was a primary speech writer and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and has maintained a conservative leaning in her writings since leaving the Reagan administration.
Document 15: Nile Gardiner: Nile Gardiner is a British conservative commentator, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation, and a former aide to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He is also a commentator on U.S. and British television and a frequent contributor to the Fox News network, and the London "Daily Telegraph". Gardiner is co-author with Stephen Thompson of the book, "Margaret Thatcher on Leadership: Lessons for American Conservatives Today" (Regnery 2013).
ground_truth: a conservative leaning