The True Story of Orrin Hatch's Hanukkah Song
by Jeffrey Goldberg
Dec 09, 2009
4 minutes
Here's the complete story about how Orrin Hatch and I collaborated on this Hanukkah song:
Ten years ago, I visited Hatch, the senior senator from Utah and a prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on Capitol Hill. I was writing for The New York Times Magazine and Hatch was thinking of running for president. We talked about politics for a few minutes, and then he said, "Have you heard my love songs?"
No senator had asked me that question before. It turned out that Hatch was a prolific songwriter, not only of love songs, but of Christian spirituals as well. We spent an hour in his office listening to some of his music, a regular Mormon platter party. After
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