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Alexander is a frequent lecturer to various civic and educational organizations regarding the United States Constitution. He also serves as an occasional media guest giving analysis on current political and social issues as they relate to the [[United States Constitution]]. ​He pens occasional opinion columns for ''The Shreveport Times.''

Alexander is a frequent lecturer to various civic and educational organizations regarding the United States Constitution. He also serves as an occasional media guest giving analysis on current political and social issues as they relate to the [[United States Constitution]]. ​He pens occasional opinion columns for ''The Shreveport Times.''

Alexander was in [[Washington, D.C.]], in a hotel in Crystal City, [[Virginia]], the night before September 11, 2001. He was raising funds for the unsuccessful comeback congressional bid waged in 2002 by conservative former U.S. Representative [[Clyde Holloway]], who was subsequently eliminated from the runoff contest by the young Republican [[Lee Fletcher]], who was then narrowly defeated by Rodney Alexander, then a Democrat, but a Republican after the summer of 2004. At the time of the attack on the [[Pentagon]], Alexander said that he:

Alexander was in [[Washington, D.C.]], in a hotel in Crystal City, [[Virginia]], the night before September 11, 2001. He was raising funds for the comeback congressional bid waged in 2002 by conservative former U.S. Representative [[Clyde Holloway]], for whom he had been a member of Holloway's congressional staff. Holloway was subsequently eliminated from the runoff contest by the young Republican [[Lee Fletcher]]. Then Fletcher was narrowly defeated by Rodney Alexander, then a Democrat, but a Republican after the summer of 2004. At the time of the attack on the [[Pentagon]], Alexander said that he:

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heard a roar. The sound startled me. I walked out to the parking lot of the hotel and looked across the way and saw black smoke billowing from a corner of the Pentagon. Shortly thereafter, there was an exodus of terrified-looking people from the Pentagon into Crystal City. After this panic, D.C. was locked down. (D.C. was so eerily still, so dead, that I have imagined we would have to go back to our nation’s founders and their horse-drawn carriages to find a time the city was so silent and unmoving). …

heard a roar. The sound startled me. I walked out to the parking lot of the hotel and looked across the way and saw black smoke billowing from a corner of the Pentagon. Shortly thereafter, there was an exodus of terrified-looking people from the Pentagon into Crystal City. After this panic, D.C. was locked down. (D.C. was so eerily still, so dead, that I have imagined we would have to go back to our nation’s founders and their horse-drawn carriages to find a time the city was so silent and unmoving). …