Early speeches written for Governor Sanders, 1962-1971

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Note from donor: "Early in 1967 Georgia Governor Carl Sanders completed his term in office. At that time Georgia governors could not seek reelection, and he therefore opened a small law office in Atlanta. I was one of two young lawyers he hired to work in this office with him. I reported for my first day of law practice in early April of 1967. I was assigned to work on a litigation matter involving our client Pet Milk Company. Two weeks after I started working with Governor Sanders, he told me he had agreed to make LAW DAY speech about two weeks later and he lamented that in the previous four years he had come to rely on two speech writers who worked for him in the Governor's Office but were not available to him as a private citizen. He asked me if I would like to try my hand at drafting a speech for the LAW DAY audience. I explained that I had no speech writing experience or training, but I would be glad to undertake to put together a draft that I hoped would be somewhat helpful to him. I read a number of speeches he had delivered while he was governor, and I tried to imitate the cadence and pattern of those speeches in putting together a draft."

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