Howard Dean
Howard Dean received the Dr. Nathan Davis Award for Governors or Statewide Elected Officials, a recognition connected to his overlapping careers as a politician and a physician.
Dean was born on November 17, 1948, in East Hampton. His education took him through a range of institutions: Browning School, Felsted School, St. George's School, and Yale University, where he attended Pierson College. He went on to study at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, which led to his work as a physician. His educational path also included time at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Yeshiva University. Before his career in politics, he worked as a stockbroker as well, giving him professional experience across finance, medicine, and public service.
The Dr. Nathan Davis Award that Dean received falls specifically in the category for governors or statewide elected officials, placing him among those who have held that level of office. His training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and his work as a physician ran alongside his identity as a politician and United States citizen working in English-language public life. The award, given in the category that applies to his elected role, stands as a concrete marker of how his career in politics intersected with his background in medicine. That combination — stockbroker, physician, and statewide elected official — shaped the professional record of someone born in East Hampton in 1948 and educated across institutions on multiple continents.
Quotes by Howard Dean
Howard Dean's insights on:
The idea that we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong.
Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.
The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in.
So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.
I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats.
I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like 'Rush Limbaugh,' and we don't have to put up with that.
It is true that there’s an economic argument and an economic feeling that something different needs to happen and politicians talking out of both sides of their mouth and all that kind of stuff.
The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I’m doing is breaking into the country club.