Recent press reports on the death of Hamilton Jordan have repeatedly mentioned a memo written by Jordan to Carter in 1972.
Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday that the campaign memorandum compiled for him in 1972 by Hamilton Jordan, which detailed in about 80 pages how a peanut farmer turned Southern governor could win the White House, remains a timeless user’s guide for anyone with political aspirations.
A memo written by a 27 year-old man raised in Albany, GA that changed the course of history is a document I had to see. So I did some digging and finally found it in the C-Span archives.
You can , but since it’s scans of the actual memo, it’s a very large file.
Comments on this Entry:
(BEZERKO on
May 24, 2008 8:57 AM)
Thanks for digging this up Mel! I look foreword to checking it out.
(Jen B. on
May 24, 2008 9:13 AM)
“It does suggest, however, that the Democratic Party has been preoccupied with the United States Senate and with United States Senators at the expense of other leadership sources in the party such as governors and mayors of large cities.”
Heh. And 2008 will be the first year, since JFK, that a Senator will be elected President.
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