10 Prominent Political Figures Accused of Plagiarism

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter
10. Timothy Goeglein
Tim Goeglein, vice president of external affairs for Focus on the Family, speaking at the Young America's Foundation's National Conservative Student Conference, August 3, 2012, Washington D.C.
Tim Goeglein, vice president of external affairs for Focus on the Family, speaking at the Young America's Foundation's National Conservative Student Conference, August 3, 2012, Washington D.C. | (Photo: The Christian Post/Napp Nazworth)

Timothy Goeglein was special assistant to President George W. Bush and deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison from 2001 to 2008.

Goeglein resigned from that position after it was discovered that he had plagiarized columns he wrote for his hometown newspaper in Fort Wayne, Ind.

In remarks given at the Young America's Foundation's National Conservative Student Conference in 2012, Goeglein said that pride led to his downfall.

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"If anyone here is suffering from pride, you and I were meant to meet today," stated Goeglein, quoting Proverbs 16:18: "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."

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