Carter recruited Dot Padgett to work on his gubernatorial campaign in 1970. She’s still campaigning for him, in a book and wherever else she can.
and events. Her purpose, she tells me, is “to see Jimmy Carter rise up in the ranks of history and for him to get the credit that he actually deserves as one of the best presidents.” A tall order, but the book does offer a one-of-a-kind eyewitness account. Kai Bird, author of “,” praised the book, which he cited in his own. “Dot’s book is filled with anecdotal detail and color about those early years of the campaign.
Her first day on the job was at the makeshift campaign headquarters in a Quality Inn in downtown Atlanta. Padgett was told to sit at a desk in the corner. Hamilton Jordan, Carter’s future White House chief of staff but then his 26-year-old campaign manager, was ostensibly her boss. “I thought to myself” Padgett wrote. Things got exciting quickly, when Carter strode into the office and asked a young woman named Trish to type a speech ASAP.
We made a special stop at her own contribution to the museum, a brown wrap skirt adorned with a handmade appliqué of Jimmy Carter, smiling his famous toothy smile. “I wore it all the time.”
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