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Cecile Richards

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  1. “Oh, I don't know if it was missing, I mean, I think part of it is what the news covers. And so that's a whole nother story. The news was very different back then. I don't think that certainly mom's race wasn't covered in the same way. It's interesting, though, David. And actually I wrote an article about this, the comparison of my mother's race against Clayton Williams. A candidate who was a business.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Yes. So there was a, I mean, they had, and again, the Southerners, I think they shared a lot. I think she would. She would be the first to say it's always going to be the toughest for the first woman. It's just going to be so tough. And look, I think Hillary was as tough a competitor in Canada as you could expect from any woman running for office. I think she would have been really proud of her for making the race because it's always easier not to do it. And someone had to be the first.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Forks in the road, but even when she was defeated by George Bush, she was still very popular. They just thought she was too liberal, which she probably was for the state of Texas.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “There was a conservative state even then, but I think looking at what's happening today around the world, she was a populist. She grew up with depression-era parents who scrapped and saved never graduated from junior high, worked all their lives, and she had that same kind of ethic. I think she had an ability to reach people across party lines, across economic lines. I think that was a large part of her success. You know, she was always really popular, I think, when she was defeated, you know, in her re-election bid.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “What you're saying, you've got to really think about it. And I think she really believed that public service was a calling and that there were people that were depending on you.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Well, she did have a huge personality. And again, I think back on her era when she was raising all of us, if she'd had more opportunity, I mean, she could have done a lot earlier on. So I think by the time she finally did get to express herself through politics, it was like a lot of pent-up energy. She had a lot of gifts to give, but she was always the center of whatever was going on. And in Texas, and again, I think in a day when women had certain prescribed roles, she was particularly new and different. And I think today a lot of people say they wish politics was like it used to be, where people just sort of were more authentic and actually spoke to people. I know she did a lot of work with a lot of politicians and always said, look, if my mother back in Waco can't understand what”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Absolutely because we all went through, we went to treatment with her. But again, it was interesting, David. It was way before the time that going to treatment was something that people talked about publicly. It was extremely shameful. And the understanding about addiction and alcoholism was very low. And it was a really tough time for her. My parents split up after that. It was really difficult, but she felt it was so important to be human and to show her warts and all. And so she talked publicly about her recovery. I still am stopped by women in airports all across America who say, I remember your mom because she helped me get sober.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Absolutely. She had her own struggles and again was really public about them. And she was a recovering alcoholic and talked about them. Were you aware?”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “We all were. I mean, this was back in the days when campaigns were kind of family come home. I mean, my husband and I were living in LA at the time with a young daughter, but we packed up the U-Haul and pulled up steaks and came back home and helped work for mom. And we're proud to live there during the time of her administration.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Well, so in those days, and she had raised all four of us, and she was one of these housewives who had so much more to give, but there weren't a lot of opportunities. So actually when Sarah Weddington was going to run for the state house, no guys wanted to run her race. And so mom said, well, I'll do it. And that was her first really professional job, was running Sarah's race. And as kids, we all got involved. And then she liked it so much, she decided that she would run. And she eventually ran for county commissioner, which of course was unheard of for women, and won and then became state treasurer. And then, of course, made an important and really bold move to run for the governor of the state of Texas and was governor for four years.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Attempts to stop the Seabrook nuclear plant, you name it. Every issue that was on campus at Brown, I got involved in. And then eventually when I graduated, decided to move to the Rio Grande border and organize garment workers.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “No, no, I just knew I wanted to be a troublemaker. I didn't really know what kind. I mean, I started really early in junior high school wearing a black armband to school in Westlake High School, which was unheard of and being called the principal's office. And that was sort of my first awakening to, boy, I'd never met the principal before. I thought this is really something. And I went off to college and got involved in the divestment movement in South Africa. I was involved in”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Absolutely, Willie. I mean, you just can go through the list. And it was funny because no one ever used to come to Austin, but once Eddie opened the Armadillo, every big act came through town. It was really great. It was a great time.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Everything. I remember going with my parents to this old, it was an airplane hangar that had been abandoned with a guy named Eddie Wilson. And this is just as we'd moved to Austin and he said, I have this vision. This is going to be the greatest music hall ever in the state of Texas. And of course, Eddie opened the Armadilla World Headquarters, which did become really the epicenter for music and my upbringing. I mean, we saw everyone. And that, of course, lives on today. Austin now is one of the music capitals of the country.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Yeah, so my dad is, still is, an unreconstructed liberal, and that era was a civil rights lawyer. He was defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War. He was working for labor unions, which again were really on the left fringe of Dallas, Texas. And we eventually moved to Austin, which was a much more hospitable climate. Then my parents began taking all of us as kids to merchant, you know, marches against the Vietnam War and doing every countercultural thing that existed. But that was really my upbringing. And so my father was certainly as important in my upbringing as my mother. And in fact, I became a union organizer right out of college, largely because of the influence of my father.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Complete outliers. And it just destroyed my family. I mean, my mother was at the luncheon waiting for the president to arrive. And my father, what he was a lawyer downtown, so he was waving at the motorcade right as the president's car rounded the bend into Dealy Plaza. And then, of course, with the Oswald Ruby assassination. It just felt like Dallas had really come unhinged. And I just remember as a child, it was a very frightening time. In fact, my parents pulled us out of school and went camping because they just, they were worried that the world was really coming apart. So that was a really important. Part of my growing up, but as important was that my parents were just involved in every movement. I mean, it was the first time. Everybody knows your mom.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “Absolutely, mainly because they let out school and we lived down in Park City near SMU and it was very conservative. I mean my parents were sort of not in outline.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Texas star, yes, proud to be a Texan. If not somewhat displaced. But no, my mom was Anne Richards, who and my dad was Dave Richards. I grew up in, I was born in Waco, which is also bragging rights, I think, but really grew in Dallas. And my folks were just involved in every movement that came through Dallas, Texas. It was a very, very tough time then. You know, I was a young, very young person when Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. And I think that really in some ways.”

    2017-01-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 115 - Cecile Richards · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source