Washington, DC., USA,1995 David Keene. David A. Keene is the President of the National Rifle Association. From 1984Ð2011, he was the chairman of the American Conservative Union. He worked as a political assistant to Vice President Spiro Agnew during the Nixon administration, and then in Congress as executive assistant to Senator James L. Buckley. Keene went on to become the southern regional coordinator for Ronald Reagan's 1976 bid for the Republican presidential nomination and national political director for George Bush's 1980 presidential campaign. Credit: Mark Reinstein
Washington, David Keene. David A. Keene is the President of the National Rifle Association. From 1984Ð2011, he was the chairman of the American Conservative Union. He worked as a political assistant to Vice President Spiro Agnew during the Nixon administration, and then in Congress as executive assistant to Senator James L. Buckley. Keene went on to become the southern regional coordinator for Ronald Reagan's 1976 bid for the Republican presidential nomination and national political director for George Bush's 1980 presidential campaign. He advised Senator Robert Dole's 1988 and 1996 presidential campaigns, and in 2007 endorsed Mitt Romney for president. He was then counsel at the Carmen Group, a lobbying firm based in Washington, Ronald Kessler once called Keene "one of the countryÕs most astute political observers",while Politico's Andy Barr commented that at the peak of his power he had been "counted as one of the few men with both the ear of Republican presidents and an ability to influence the grassroots." Keene has stood with members of both major political parties to protect AmericansÕ civil liberties, although he is most well known for his efforts on behalf of gun rights. He served as an envoy to the UN Small Arms and Light Weapons Conference. In 2007, Keene co-founded the American Freedom Agenda (AFA), "a coalition established to restore checks and balances and civil liberties protections under assault by the executive branch. (In 2007, Keene resigned from the AFA.) He also co-chairs the Constitution Project's Liberty and Security Committee, and has said that "the right to appeal one's detention to an independent judge is a cornerstone of responsible, conservative governance." He has been critical of the Patriot Act,and has worked with the American Civil Liberties Union to limit the effects of the act. While Keene was Chairman of the American Conservative Union (1984-2011) he fought to allow the right-leaning gay rights organization GOProu
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