
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 24, 1990                   TAG: 9003242451
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ROB EURE POLITICAL WRITER
DATELINE: INDIANAPOLIS                                LENGTH: Short

EX-PRESIDENT GETS LITTLE RESPECT FROM LEADERS

Despite his recent success helping ensure fair elections in Nicaragua, former President Jimmy Carter still finds respect hard to come by within his own party.

And it fell to Virginia Democratic Chairman Paul Goldman to demand respect for Carter from party leadership.

Of the Democratic leaders gathered here on Friday for a weekend meeting of the national committee, Goldman apparently was the only one to note Carter's absence from a list of recent Democratic presidents.

In a resolution written by New York State Democratic Chairman John Marino, endorsing Sen. Patrick Moynihan's Social Security tax cut proposal, Marino listed Democratic presidents as "guardians" of the program from Franklin Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson.

But he left Carter out.

In a meeting of the executive committee, Alan Diamonstein of Newport News put Carter's name in at the request of Goldman, a New Yorker who was hand-picked by Gov. Doug Wilder to be Virginia's party chairman in January.

"I just didn't think that was justified," said Goldman, known in Virginia political circles as a consummate strategist and mischief-maker.

"I'm very disappointed that our friends in New York failed to list Jimmy Carter."

Marino said the omission of Carter was an oversight. "I didn't write the resolution," he said. "They just forgot."

by CNB