Editing Ari Fleischer (section)

==Early life and education==
Fleischer was born in 1960 in [[New York City]],<ref>''Taking Heat: The President, the Press and My Years in the White House'', page 1. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=rRgySNzhW2wC&q=born books.google])</ref> the son of Martha and Alan A. Fleischer.<ref name=nyt1>{{cite news| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/style/weddings-celebrations-rebecca-davis-ari-fleischer.html| work= [[The New York Times]]| title= WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Rebecca Davis, Ari Fleischer| date= November 10, 2002| access-date= April 16, 2018}}</ref> His mother was a database coordinator and his father was owner of an executive recruiting company.<ref name=nyt1 /> His parents were [[American Jews|Jewish]]; his mother is a Hungarian immigrant who lost much of her family in the [[Holocaust]]. Both parents were Democrats who were "horrified" when Fleischer became a Republican, he told an interviewer in 2003: "While I lived at home and when I started college, I was a liberal Democrat. In a sense, it was President Carter who drove me out of the Democratic Party and it was President Reagan who welcomed me into the Republican Party."<ref>Tom Tugend,[https://jewishjournal.com/news/los_angeles/community_briefs/8905/ "Q&A with Ari Fleischer"], ''[[Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]]'', December 25, 2003.</ref> He graduated from [[Fox Lane High School]] in [[Bedford (town), New York|Bedford, New York]], in 1978, and graduated from [[Middlebury College]] in [[Vermont]] in 1982.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}