Editing Bob Shrum (section)

===Speechwriter===
Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor [[John Lindsay]], and then for United States Senators [[Edmund Muskie]] and [[Ted Kennedy]]. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee [[George McGovern]] as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee [[Jimmy Carter]]. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary. In his resignation letter to Carter, Shrum wrote "I am not sure what you believe in, other than yourself."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cfNPudFLctwC&q=I+am+not+sure+what+you+believe+in%2C+other+than+yourself+shrum&pg=PA95|title=Advice from the Presidents: The Student's Guide to Reaching the Top in Business and Politics: The Student's Guide to Reaching the Top in Business and Politics|last=Thomas|first=G. Scott|date=2008-06-30|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313356636|language=en}}</ref>

Shrum later worked for [[Ted Kennedy]] and wrote [[The Dream Shall Never Die|the famous speech]]<ref name="American Rhetoric">[http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/tedkennedy1980dnc.htm American Rhetoric]</ref> Kennedy gave at the [[1980 Democratic National Convention]]. After Kennedy's unsuccessful bid for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1980, Shrum returned to work in his Senate office as his press secretary until 1984, after which he became director of Kennedy's Fund for a Democratic Majority Political Action Committee until 1985.