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Bob Dold

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“No, no. So it was business school, and so the opportunity to go to Northwestern was... Was really the impetus to get out of Washington, and so it was time for me to kind of get that next chapter going and take a career in the private sector.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, honestly, I thought I'd done my government service and ultimately was business school that kind of was drawing.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, what's interesting is even for my wedding, you can't get the advance hat off. So I'm looking at certain things and my wife's rolling her eyes and tables this way, that sort of thing. But yeah, ultimately I got an opportunity to work with Senator Dole doing advanced work on that campaign. And then after that was over, went to the House to work on the government reform and oversight committee as an investigative counsel, which was fascinating. And so did the campaign finance investigation investigating not only some of the foreign money that was coming in, but there was some dollars that I was investigating on the Republican side as well.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did advance. And again, a small community, so they called and said, can you travel for us? So I literally during that skill.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which we appreciate So, did that stint and then worked for came thy second summer for a midsize insurance defense firm Query and Harrow in Chicago? And then ultimately...”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Really kind of let us kind of dive in and was really a fantastic experience, understanding what was going on in New York at the time. Selfish reasons my girlfriend at the time, now wife, was in New York, and so I was looking to try to get out that direction. You understand how that goes? I do.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I did. Went to Indiana for three years, which was great. I did a stint over with the New York State Supreme Court for a judge named Judge Golia, who was just a fantastic guy. Was it?”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Bens I think the vice president was underrated. And, you know, when I look back at it, because his son came to Congress with me in 2010, and we're very close, and we were thinking back about it, because when we came to Congress or when I was first came to Congress, I was older than the vice president when he became vice president. I said, oh my gosh, I can't even imagine if I were to be going right now down to the White House to be the vice president of the United States. So again, very, very young. And ultimately, if you look and listen to some of his colleagues with a whole patriot missile, the Patriot missiles Ted Kennedy will tell you or would have told you that Dan Quail was instrumental in making sure that the Patriot missiles came to fruition through the United States Senate. So there were some of those moments that you wish you could kind of steal back.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You have to make things happen, and oftentimes. Of Lockheed and the CEO basically took his executive vice president out of his office and wanted me to take his office over. And I said, no, no, no. I don't need to do any of that. I don't need to be here. You know, I'm going to be on the floor. I don't need to do any of that. But it's those type of experiences that are just fascinating. You get to see the country at a totally different from a different set of or perspective. And you get to do it at a high level, which was just fascinating.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do. I use that all the time, which I get criticized for. So I went and worked doing advanced work, which was fascinating. And I encouraged.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so I did the typical intern ship at the White House answering phones and doing all whatever they asked, and the reward was I got to go on the road and do one advanced trip and was kind of all hell broke loose on that trip to Cleveland, Ohio. And the lead advance at the time said, get this kid on the road as often as you can, and from that point it was, we worked in the advance office every summer, and during the campaign until the Clinton.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the worst thing they can say is no. And so I had two opportunities. I could have worked in the presidential news summary, which, as you know, was stuck in the fifth floor of the old executive office building working all odd hours, clipping papers and putting them together at the time Or I could have worked for Vice Presidential Advance was the second floor of the OB normal hours and as a student in college working in the summer at the White House, I wanted normal hours to go out and have some fun after work. So I took the vice presidential advance job.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I applied, right? That was the thing. I go to schools all over the place and I say, You want them the secret about working in the White House? And they say, of course they all say yes. And I said, I applied.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did. And so this was at really the tail end of his administration. It was really kind of the ramp up for For George H.W. Bush and his run, and so he was coming to Columbus, Ohio into the basketball arena. To kind of help George Bush out and kind of be stumping for him through Ohio. And that was just fascinating to see and to meet President Reagan at the time. And shortly thereafter after the election and after he had won, I ended up going to work in really the vice president's office doing advanced work. Yeah, how did that come about?”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't. I had no clue. It was literally somebody a friend was doing some of the advance on the advanced team and needed some volunteers and so pulled me from Dennison, which is just a few miles away over to work the event. And then from there got really engaged and ended up going to work.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did, and so I was kind of always engaged in politics, whether it be school politics, that sort of stuff. But for me, my first kind of interaction into national politics was doing some advanced work for Ronald Reagan. It was my first advance trip in Columbus, Ohio. And then really, did you know?”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, you've got to be in the arena if you want to make a change. And so for us, it was good dining room table discussions about what was happening around the country at the time. Politics for us was always one of those things that was encouraged by mom and dad to go volunteer and get active, and that's kind of a typical dinner around the doled household was talking about Boston.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My father had an opportunity to talk to them about the upcoming election or that sort of a thing. So, you know, I have been involved in that type of a capacity since a very young age. And it was really one of the things in the family that it was an opportunity that we were able to give back. My father ran for state representative long time ago, I think, when I was one. I'd take a look at some of the pictures. And, you know, that was in the days when they had, I think, three representatives from a given country. And in any event, it was like, I think it was nine people in the primary, and he ended up not winning.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For the Republican Party. We would come home and my friends would come home after school with me and they would see these bags of literature stacked up in the entrance way right outside the door. And they would run because they knew that my father was going to succor them and grab them and say, we're going to deliver literature so that it would kind of make things pass quickly. And I tell people that my father would take me out delivering literature, and I think that oftentimes I was the bait because as a seven-year-old, you know, walking the streets to deliver literature, somebody's going to open the door if there's a seven-year-old there. We're selling pancake breakfast tickets or something. Who knows what we were going to do?”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, politics, for me, was one of those things that my father was a precinct captain. And so it was almost a chore. For the Republican Republic”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That would be a significant group, no question about it. But we saw even in the United States Senate when that opportunity started. To have some meaningful movement on the gun issue, and it didn't pass even when the Democrats were in control. So this is an issue that's going to hit conservative Democrats as well.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That the NRA, or that, and honestly, some of my colleagues on the right would say, look, the NRA is the liberal organization because there's more conservative pro-gun groups out there that they need to try to placate. And ultimately, I think if left to their own devices, we'd have more people that would agree that this isn't”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They leverage a significant amount of influence, as do other organizations on the left for different reasons. I am not here to say that the NRA is not powerful and has a significant amount of influence, but what I do think is important is that people have to recognize and have to stand up to say, we have a problem that is happening right here in our country. And there has to be, I mean, the fear is that there's going to be a slippery slope, that if they start to infringe upon somebody's rights, that they're going to come and take their guns away. And we have to make sure that those on the right and the left recognize that we're not coming to take away your Second Amendment rights. We want to talk about having common sense discussion about reasonable and rational things that can reduce this gun violence.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And there is that argument to be had, but I don't believe, but again, going back to the point, they want less gun violence. So how do we get to that? At least let's agree that we can. Start with the premise that we want to reduce gun violence, and what works and what doesn't work, but I do believe when we, you know, whether keeping the guns out of violent felons, keeping guns out of the hands of those that have a mental illness or are going through a potential problem, those are things that I think are the right move. And as, you know, I took a lot of heat for coming out with some of those positions, but I think it's the right thing to do.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can sit with people on the other side of the aisle, even people that think the Second Amendment is sacrosanct, as you say. And the thing that we'll agree on is we all want to reduce gun violence. So the people, the reason why people want to keep the right to keep in bare arms isn't necessarily to go. Have gun violence out there in the streets, they want to be able to protect their home or they want to go hunting or do those other things.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And even listening to some of the academics here that have embedded themselves, so Forrest Stewart, who's done a significant amount of work with some of these gangs and just kind of listening to him, we know that there's a significant problem. And so how do we balance the rights of the Second Amendment, which I think are important. Can't pick and choose what parts of the Constitution want to follow, with having some reasonable restrictions that people can understand to say, you know what, that makes a heck of a lot of sense, whether it be background checks, that frankly right now if you were to go into a gunshop, they're doing the background checks right now, closing the gunshow loophole, making sure that we have some sort of a mechanism out there where we can try to reduce the violence. Because honestly, David, as we look together.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We face some significant issues in the Chicagoland area where we have the highest murder rate in the country here in Chicago and literally just a stone's throw from where we sit right now is a war zone. It's a battle zone.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dive a little bit deeper with those relationships to understand where people are coming from. And that's not just what those on the same side of the aisle, that's what those on the other side of the aisle as well. And I will tell you that to this day, there are some very good friends on the other side of the aisle that, if called, I'd be there in a second for them.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, for me, I wanted to make sure that I, for one, was listening to where people were coming from. Somebody that was a mentor to me pulled me aside when I first got to Congress and said, if you want to be successful, you need to understand three things. You need to understand the rules, the rules of the game and kind of the procedures that happen in Congress. You need to become an expert in some things, some field of sorts, and you need always keep your word. And the idea behind becoming an expert is that you want to make sure that people are coming to you and the like, and ultimately for me it was trying to listen to people that might have been more, had more experience or might have an expertise in a certain area. But I think the opportunity for success is to really highlight and make sure that you're taking an opportunity.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not only do I think it's healthy, I think it shines a light on kind of a whole different opportunity for solutions. And so not only this idea of empathy, but this idea of understanding. And there's, I think, too little of it right now to take the time to understand where people may be coming from, which is a point of view that frankly is not wrong. It may be just different. And ultimately, if we're going to get out of the mess that we find ourselves in any particular issue that you might want to go down, the only way that we're going to get out of that mess is by people finding some common ground and working on it together. So there's going to be a bipartisan solution. And ultimately, that's throughout history been one of the only ways that we know how to solve problems.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly, and are part of that Norman Rockwell type painting, and I hope that my wife and I can try to provide that for our children, but we want to do it not just for our children, but we hope that people have that sense of Americana. regardless of what community they grow up in, and ultimately for me, I realized that there are people out there that are struggling with a lot bigger issues than the ones that I dealt with growing up. And, you know, I was blessed to be in that situation. And my hope is that for our country, we get to a point where communities in the inner city, regardless of state, have that same type of an opportunity.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I have been extremely blessed, and I give a lot of that credit to my parents who raised me with three sisters. And so very tolerant of women and had to be as we grew up with a single bathroom and that sort of a situation. Listen, the Norman Raqua paintings.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I tell you what, we had a little schism on that front, but ultimately going into the family business was something was always for me. It was going to be a when, not if. And so that ultimately was the case. I'm involved in the pest control business to this day”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, being a family business, that was something that in my own mind's eye, you know, my hero, as it were, is my father. I mean, he is the person that when I was kind of struggling which way to go, what to do, I had a very easy path in that I would usually generally follow what my father did from Nutria High School to Denison. The difference we started to vary, he went to business school at the University of Chicago, I went to Northwestern.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So back in eighteen sixty Solomon Rose started the company, and so it's two families five generations. And so Daniel Rose was Solomon Rose's son and the Rose family and the dolds were very close. And when my grandmother graduated from Dennison University, he worked for Procter& Gamble and then was pulled away to go work for Rose Exterminator Company at the time and became the general manager of all the Rose operations, which at that point in time were coast to coast from San Francisco to New York.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. People thought that was first for Washington. In the country? The oldest pest control company in the country. We know that it started in 1860, or can prove it to 1860. We think it actually started in 1845.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh my gosh. So C. Norman doled my grandfather grew up in Norwood, Ohio and went to a little school in Ohio, Denison University, which ended up being a family school. I was the, I think, the 23rd in my family to go. So he and my grandmother met there. And a very strong layman Christian and was kind of laid the foundation and got into the pest control business. We've kind of been here in the Chicagoland area basically ever since they graduated from college.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I think there was some original. I think we traced some folks back to the Mayflower at some point in time. I wish I had a clearer picture of what that looks like, but have been in the Chicago land area. My grandparents were here. And so this has been home for a long time.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's been an absolute honor to be here, and I thank you, David, for giving me the opportunity to come and have a conversation with some of these young people. They are truly a gifted bunch.”
2017-06-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 156 - Bob Dold · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source