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Barbara Jordan

U.S. Representative from Texas, 1973–1979; Texas State Senator 1967–1973

United States · 1936–1996

Served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas and earlier in the Texas State Senate, where she was the first African American state senator since Reconstruction. Sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the 1974 impeachment inquiry into President Nixon, and later taught at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

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What is the part of your job that people would be surprised is most of your job?

And now, what are those of us who are elected public officials supposed to do? We call ourselves "public servants" but I'll tell you this: We as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good if we are derelict in upholding the common good. More is required -- More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Recorded Democratic National Convention, Madison Square Garden, New York, AmericanRhetoric.com, 12 July 1976 source

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