Shrum speaks to the United States Studies Centre during the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Born
(1943-07-21) July 21, 1943 (age 80)
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education
Georgetown University (BA) Harvard University (JD)
Spouse
Marylouise Oates
(m. 1988)
Robert M. "Bob" Shrum (born July 21, 1943) is the director of the Center for the Political Future[1] and the Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics at the University of Southern California, where he is a professor of political science in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. He is a former American political consultant, who has worked on numerous Democratic campaigns, including as senior advisor to the Kerry-Edwards campaign in 2004 and to the Gore-Lieberman campaign in 2000. Shrum wrote the famous speech Ted Kennedy gave at the 1980 Democratic National Convention conceding to and supporting President Jimmy Carter.[2] He has been described as "the most sought-after consultant in the Democratic Party."[3] Shrum served as speechwriter to New York Mayor John V. Lindsay from 1970 to 1971, speechwriter to Senator George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign and speechwriter and press secretary to Senator Edward M. Kennedy from 1980 to 1984 and political consultant until 2009.
Shrum's book, No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner, was published in June 2007 by Simon and Schuster.[4]
^"USC Center for the Political Future". dornsife-center-for-political-future.usc.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
^American Rhetoric
^Lizza, Ryan. "Kerry's Consigliere". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
^Shrum, Robert (2008-06-24). No Excuses. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780743296526.
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