Lamar Alexander Quotes
I'm low in the polls because nobody's ever heard of me.
Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Governor (Republican), U. S. Secretary of Education, Statement explaining his lack of success as a candidate for the Republican presidential candidate, CNN Inside Politics, July 9, 1995
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This point is taken seriously even today by all modern political campaigns. The “advance man” is a key staff member whose job is to arrange for a good turnout when the candidate appears. The numbers are important, and so is the makeup of the crowd—including the presence of local politicians and people of importance. His older brother was running for Consul—the highest elected office of the Roman Empire. The Handbook, was his advice to his brother as to how to conduct his campaign.
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When Richard Nixon resigned the presidency Gerald Ford became America's first president who had not been elected to national office.
Andrew Lamar Alexander Jr. is an American retired politician who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 2003 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he also was the 45th governor of Tennessee from 1979 to 1987 and the 5th United States Secretary of Education from 1991 to 1993, where he helped the implementation of Education 2000.
