Gerald Monroe Rafshoon (born January 11, 1934) is an American television producer and political operative. He is one of the four founding members of Unity08, and was the White House Communications Director under the presidency of Jimmy Carter. In doing so, Rafshoon became the first professional advertising executive to join the White House staff.
In 1976, Rafshoon was the architect of the advertising and public relations campaign that helped Carter, then a mostly unknown Southern governor and peanut farmer, become President of the United States.
Following his White House years, Rafshoon began producing motion pictures and television programs. He is a specialist in international co-productions working closely with the leading television networks and production companies in Europe and filming in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
He has produced 52 hours of television and cable entertainment for U.S. and international networks. Among them are two Emmy Award-winning programs and three Emmy nominees. They include:
Georgetown, a dramatic series for CBS starring Helen Mirren
He also produced an Emmy-winning documentary series Decisions That Shook the World about important controversial decisions made by American presidents that defined their character and affected the course of history.
Television workEdit
According to Namebase, Gerald Rafshoon is mentioned in the following books:
Greider's Secrets of the Temple 1989 (47)
Hertsgaard's On Bended Knee 1988 (23, 38-9)
Jones's The Politics of Money 1991 (215)
Kilian & Sawislak's Who Runs Washington? 1982 (56)
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