U.S. Senator from Tennessee

Sen. Lamar Alexander

1 article 1996

Lamar Alexander is a Republican politician from Tennessee who has served as a U.S. Senator, Governor of Tennessee, and U.S. Secretary of Education. He ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000. He contributed a reflective essay to The Weekly Standard drawing on his experience as a presidential candidate.

WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT HOW WE PICK A PRESIDENT

March 25, 1996 · Magazine, Lamar Alexander

While my wounds are fresh, let me offer several ways to fix how we nominate presidents. First, for those who only see it on Inside Politics, let me describe what running for president really feels like (especially when you have just lost). It is like scaling a cliff for three years in the dark to…