Carey Parker, who helped shape some of the most significant federal laws of the past 50 years, becoming an eminence of Capitol Hill in his own right, died Dec. 4.
According to Farrell’s book, Blattner had written the first draft of the speech. But after Mr. Parker finished with the text, “it had a zing like biting a jalapeño,” Blattner told Farrell.
at the Democratic National Convention in New York. Kennedy speechwriter Bob Shrum drafted the remarks but credited Mr. Parker with refining them.In the speech, Kennedy congratulated Carter on his victory and said that “for me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end.” He grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pa., and was a 1952 graduate of the private Haverford School in Haverford, Pa. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University in 1956, studied as a Rhodes scholar at Trinity College at the University of Oxford, and received a PhD in the sciences from what is now Rockefeller University in New York in 1963.
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