- Gerald Rafshoon
Gerald Rafshoon is one of the four founding members of
Unity08 , and was theWhite House Communications Director under the presidency ofJimmy Carter cite web| title=Transcript: CNN Today: Gerald Rafshoon Discusses 'Running Mates' | url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/11/tod.05.html | accessdate=2006-09-23] (in doing so, Mr. Rafshoon became the first professional advertising executive to join the White House staff cite web| title=Eagleton Digital Archive of American Politics: Election of 1976 | url=http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/e-gov/e-politicalarchive-1976.htm] ), and is atelevision producer .In January 2008, Rafshoon and fellow Unity08 co-founder
Doug Bailey left that organization to launch a national effort to draftNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run forPresident of the United States as an independent candidate. [cite web |title=Unity08 Scales Back, Co-Founders Split For Draft Bloomberg Committee |last= Benjamin |first= Elizabeth |publisher= NYDailyNews.com |url= http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2008/01/unity08-scales-back-cofounders.html |accessdate= 2008-01-12 |date=2008-01-10 ]Television work
Mr. Rafshoon produced a number of
TV movie s based onbiblical stories including:
* Abraham in 1994.
* Jacob in 1994.
* Joseph in 1995. Joseph won the Emmy award for outstanding miniseries.
* Samson and Delilah in 1996.He also made " [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235015/ Running Mates] ", a TV movie starring
Tom Selleck with "as themself" appearances byMargaret Carlson ,Arianna Huffington ,Al Hunt ,Michael Kinsley ,Robert D. Novak ,Kate O'Beirne , andMark Shields cite web| title=IMDB: Gerald Rafshoon | url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706363/ | accessdate=2006-09-23] .Political work
According to
Namebase , Gerald Rafshoon is mentioned in the following books:
* Greider's "Secrets of the Temple" 1989 (47)
* Hertsgaard's "On Bended Knee" 1988 (23, 38-9)
* Jones's "The Politics of Money" 1991 (215)
* Kilian & Sawislak's "Who Runs Washington?" 1982 (56)External links
*imdb name|id=0706363|name=Gerald Rafshoon
* [http://www.eagleton.rutgers.edu/e-gov/e-politicalarchive-rafshoon.htm Mr. Rafshoon's White House Exit Interview] conducted by David Alsobrook of the Presidential Papers Staff.References
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