Jan 04, 2019
Bob Kieve
Eisenhower

Bob Kieve, born in New Jersey in 1922 and currently working as the President of the Empire Broadcasting Group Radio Stations. He has been one of the most honored businessmen in Silicon Valley. 

He graduated from Harvard in 1943, he worked in WWII as an information officer for the US Government, first in England and then in the American Embassy in Spain. 

After the War, in 1953 when Dwight Eisenhower was elected president, Bob was hired to work at the White House as Eisenhower's speechwriter. 

Active in San Jose community activities: serves or served as director on boards of Symphony Silicon Valley, San Jose Rotary Club (president 1991), San Jose Chamber of Commerce (chair 1996); Lincoln Law School, Silicon Valley Leadership Foundation.Former President of the SJ Rotary Club, Director of the SJ Symphony Foundation.