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 Thomas J. D’Alesandro III Campaign Papers, 1967 April 11, 2012- In 1967 Thomas "Tommy" D'Alesandro, III, then president of the Baltimore City Council, launched his campaign for mayor of Baltimore City. A democrat, he was the son of the legendary Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, Jr. (1947-1959); his opponent in the primary was Peter Angelos; in the general, Arthur Sherwood. To lend strength and intellectual heft to his campaign, Mr. D'Alesandro created and had published for public consumption, and the record, a series of position papers. "They represented my platform," he would recall later, "issues I considered especially important and belonged in the city’s conversation. I wanted the voters to know where I stood." The position papers were prepared in the summer of 1967 by Mr. D'Alesandro's "kitchen cabinet"— a small circle of friends including Eugene Feinblatt, Janet Hoffman, and Kalman "Buzzy" Hettleman. The position papers circulated among the press and the electorate during both the primary and the general and appeared to have their place in the history of those fevered months. D'Alesandro would go on to win the primary 90,000 to Mr. Angelos’s 31,000, and the general 137,000 to Mr. Sherwood’s 28,000. Then, apparently, copies of the issue papers themselves simply fell out of sight, never to be seen or heard of again, until Mr. Hettleman and his wife Myra decided to move from their long time residence in Mt. Washington. In the course of preparing to move, they began to "clean out the attic" of the house they had lived in for some 40 years, going through old pictures and books and papers long forgotten. And, suddenly, there it was—in 2012, the positions papers issued by Mr. D'Alesandro in 1967. Gathering dust. Mr. Hettleman realized immediately what the papers now represented—a look back at another time in Baltimore. He knew what his next step should be and he took it: he turned them over to The Abell Foundation, to both share the history and to preserve it. And so it has. Related File: Download the file
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