Gerald Ford in What A Party, by Terry McAuliffe

On Principles & Values: On youth apathy: I could never sit on the sidelines

In the fall of 1975 Jack's friend lined me up with a paid internship working for our congressman, Jim Hanley, and every Tuesday and Thursday I took the number 80 bus down to the Cannon Office Building and did research, filing, and constituted correspondence. My first week working for Hanley, I was walking across the Capital and met the Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller. 3 years later because of my work starting a program to tutor prison inmates, I was asked to attend a seminar at the American Enterprise Institute and got to meet Gerald Ford. We discussed apathy among the young at the conference, and the former President told me, "I could never sit on the sidelines," which I admired because I never could either. Source: What A Party!, by Terry McAuliffe, p. 23 Jan 23, 2007

The above quotations are from What A Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators, and Other Wild Animals by Terry McAuliffe. Click here for other excerpts from What A Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators, and Other Wild Animals by Terry McAuliffe. Click here for other excerpts by Gerald Ford. Click here for other excerpts by other Governors.
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