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Lamar Alexander

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Lamar Alexander

@SenAlexander

THE EDUCATION OF A SENATOR is available now. Updates from former United States Senator Lamar Alexander. 7th generation Tennessean born and raised in Maryville.

Maryville, TN

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Joined September 2009

Lamar Alexander
@SenAlexander
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Reagan’s experienced “team of rivals” helped to save his presidency. In 1987, when Reagan fell into trouble over the Iran-Contra scandal, he telephoned Howard Baker, who was in Miami on a family vacation. Joy Baker answered the president’s call. “Where’s Howard?” Reagan asked.
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Lamar Alexander
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This is a great illustration of Japan’s special relationship with Middle Tennessee, the origins of which I recount across several chapters in my new book, THE EDUCATION OF A SENATOR: FROM JFK TO TRUMP, I had to figure out what would be the best way to approach the Japanese when
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Lamar Alexander
@SenAlexander
Jun 9
I am grateful for the generous book review in @EducationNext, and it is fair to say that throughout my career, I have had a “disinterest in ideology.” I did not see a need to be in public life unless I was trying to accomplish a result, which almost always meant finding a way to
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Lamar Alexander
@SenAlexander
Jun 8
It was a special evening on Friday seeing old friends and meeting new readers at @PoliticsProse—and a real honor to be introduced by bookstore co-owner Bradley Graham and to talk with @jmart. We really covered a lot of ground in what Jonathan describes as my "Forrest Gump" career
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Lamar Alexander
@SenAlexander
Jun 8
In Chapter 39 of my new memoir, THE EDUCATION OF A SENATOR: FROM JFK TO TRUMP (now available online and in bookstores), there is a photograph of me with Dolly Parton at the opening of Dollywood in 1986, when I was governor, and she was the unquestioned star of the show. Dolly is
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Lamar Alexander
@SenAlexander
Jun 6
It was the closest I ever came to feeling like a Beatle. On a warm Memphis evening in June 1982, two hundred fifty thousand people lined the banks of the Mississippi River for the annual “Sunset Symphony.” Wearing a white tuxedo over my red and black plaid shirt, I banged out on
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Lamar Alexander
@SenAlexander
Jun 5
See you tonight.
Politics and Prose
@PoliticsProse
Jun 1
Replying to @PoliticsProse
Friday (6/5), join Senator Lamar Alexander for THE EDUCATION OF A SENATOR: From JFK to Trump - w/Jonathan Martin - 7pm @ The Wharf: politics-prose.com/senator-lamar-…
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Lamar Alexander
@SenAlexander
Jun 5
“The biggest conservative bill in over 25 years,” @newtgingrich said on Fox News in 2015, after I engineered the passage of a law fixing ”No Child Left Behind” and returning most K-12 school decisions to states. President Obama, with whom I worked on the bill, called the law “a
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Lamar Alexander
@SenAlexander
Jun 5
In Chapter 28 of my memoir, THE EDUCATION OF A SENATOR: FROM JFK TO TRUMP, I write about my 18-day Pacific voyage with Alex Haley in 1987 in a cargo freighter from Long Beach, California, to Sydney. These long voyages were the way Alex had found time to write ROOTS and THE
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