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Adam Nagourney

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  1. “He was. So he was like, I think I've covered three, and I think you know all them, but three candidates for a president, or almost candidates for a president, who really, like, I am so lucky to be covering this person. Mario Como was one with all his flaws, which I'll talk about in a second. Bill Clinton was another, and the other was, of course, Barack Obama. Cuomo was just a really brilliant guy. He was a brilliant speaker, intellectual, tortured character. Tortured.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “But he definitely did his governor's race. And I remember like, and this will, I mean, now I sound like much, but I remember being up in this suite with him when he got the result because I always tried to get to the suite of the candidate, right? And you just really felt you were right inside. And then covering him when he first became governor and dealing with his son, Andrew, who's now the governor, as you well know. And after I worked, I was working for a Gadette Westchester newspapers when I covered that race. And I think after that, they set me up to Albany. And then I got hired by Marshall Kramer at the Daily News to cover the Mario Cuomo.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Wow, I can't explain that. I just knew there's something about it. I mean, you know, from when I was a kid, I was reading political stories. I just loved it. I mean, I just loved it from the early days of politics in New York. And then my favorite stories of Westchester were like city council races. I don't know what it was. It was just something that really, really appealed to me. And I never lost interest in it. I just always found it more and more interesting.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “A sense The other thing you learned, I bet you did too, and it was a really important lesson. You're writing about people, right? So, I mean, this has schmaltze, corny, but it's not. So it really made an impetus to get things wrong, get things right. Because when you're working on a small paper like that and you make a mistake saying an obituary or a cop check or something, you hear about it from real people. And I just thought that was a great way to learn that.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “That's right. It could fill space. And then when you cover a beach like that, you have your occasional great crime stories. And I remember writing around on a snow plow in Putnam County where I work for a while talking about what it was like clearing snow.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “So, zoning boards, and you know, I bet you do this too. Come in in the morning and, you know, call the police departments to find out what's going on. Obituaries, you know, I would write, man, this won't shock you, but I'd write 75 inches on zoning board disputes in white planes. I really did. Like in retrospect, I'm not sure what were readers thinking, what were editors thinking. But I loved it. I loved it.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “When I got the load off my mind. And I was getting paid $25 a shot per story. And at a certain point I was writing so many stories they made a decision like they should, you know, I was making more than the staff people. So they brought me in on staff.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Yeah. And he sort of introduced me to the editor and got me a job there as a stringer and I got paid by the story. And once I got out of college, I was just doing it all the time.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “So for the reporter dispatch, what happened? I was working my school paper, The Load. I think I told you. The load, yes. And there was a guy there who knew he worked for the reporter dispatch. His name was Byron Rimus. This was the guy.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “I was too nervous. I really was looking around for, I don't know whether Scotty Reston was around at that point, but I was looking around for all these sort of big names. I mean, it was a big deal to me. It really was.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “So, what happened is he invites me in, you know, I'm like really nervous. I got a haircut. I put on a tie. I showed up at the times. I walked upstairs and he took me upstairs to the cafe. I figured, you know an important detail, he didn't call back or write back at first, which is fine. So I finally called figuring like he'd have a phalanx of secretaries around him. And he picked up his phone himself. He said, oh, yeah, of course get your letter. Come on up. And I went up and he had a cup of coffee with me for the New York Times cafeterian.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “The political report of the New York Times in 1978 or whatever when I was in college, I said, Bishop Klymer, you don't know me. I want your job. You have nothing to worry about. But I'd love to come in there and talk to you and find out how I could get your job.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “And I don't think this is apocryphal. You could ask people who knew me then literally like I knew from that moment not only that I want to be a reporter, but that I want to work for the New York Times and I want to be the national political reporter for the New York Times. And in fact. Some written proof of this in that I wrote a letter to Adam Klymer, who you might know.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Yeah. So when I was a freshman in college, somebody came to me and said, do you want to write a story for the school paper? And I literally, it was called The Load, L-O-A-D. I didn't name it. It was a weekly.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “So it was always part of the culture. And if you grew up in New York, like, you know, here in LA, like you see Leonardo DiCaprio on a table and everyone's like, oh my God, you know, back in New York, if you saw A. Rosenthal at a table, it'd be like a bigger celebrity signing. So it was a big part of my life. So I think that's what we both ended up going in journalism. Eric and I both went to the same college, SUNY Purchase. We both worked for the school newspaper. We both worked, he worked for a newsday, I think, one appointment. We both worked for the Gadette Westchester newspapers. And now we both work with the Times.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “You see, it's coming No, I don't think it was coincidence. I mean, my father, first of all, my parents were both avid New York Times readers. We grew up in Westchester, so we grew up in a house where there was always a New York Times. My father was ahead of quadrangle books for a while. Quadrangle Books was the New York Times.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “Yeah, but from the suburbs of New York. Yeah. Westchester. I mean, I was born in New York City, but I grew up in Westchester.”

    2018-01-01 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 204 - Adam Nagourney · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source