"In former education secretary Lamar Alexander's 1995 presidential campaign tract, We Know What to Do: A Political Maverick Talks to America, Alexander's ghost - veteran sportswriter Mickey Herskowitz - isn't even mentioned until page 198, on the fourth page of the acknowledgments. Even then, Herskowitz is the 83rd person to be thanked, after 'Fred and Ernestine Montgomery of Henning, Tennessee,' 'my great Aunt Sula,' 'Dr. George Sweeting and the Moody Bible College' and 'J.B. (Bronce) Henderson.'"


Alexander, Lamar (1940-    ) American politician and educator, Governor of Tennessee, University President, US Secretary of Education

[Sources: Washington Post, March 31, 2002; Page B01]

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