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Chuck Todd

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  1. “And so it just would end up being national pot. This was the mid 80s. So I ran Contra. I think they were fighting about. There was probably, you know, my dad make it the case why Reagan was a good president. I think my cousin, you know, why he was an idiot, whatever. That conversation, but civil and smart. And I just soaked it in. And it was from then on, I thought”

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  2. “What's that? Was everything? It would be about my dad was curious of the campaign. It was the campaign he was working on was back then in Florida. We used to elect every statewide. Cabinet post was an elected post. They've now gotten rid of that. They now just have what's called a chief financial officer and they've sort of, but we used to elect an ag person, insurance commissioner, education commissioner. They care about everyone. Sort of the way I think Ohio still does it this way. California has a bunch of them.”

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  3. “Yes, they were just having the best time. Policy. And a bonded father and son type of thing. And he became very close. And I was just mesmerized by it all. And from there, I was like, I remember the top.”

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  4. “And then I had a cousin who lived with us for a summer while working on a campaign in Florida. I grew up in Miami. And that summer, my father and him, my cousin was a big liberal. My father's a big conservative. And they just got drunk and argued politics every night. And I was there to facilitate the alcohol, the espresso, and just... Soaked”

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  5. “Obviously, it was his president. It was his, and now, of course, anybody runs for president now tries to write their book that's just like it.”

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  6. “About different people, the whole point of it, of the book that may or may not have been written by John Kennedy. Probably not. But it's singling out, obviously, elected officials who made tough decisions, who basically went against whatever the popular opinion was or their party and stuff like that. So it was a whole book like that. Yeah, designed to design.”

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  7. “So he hands me profiles and courage, and I get enamored in particular. Like I said, there's one story I'm enamored with, which is the Andrew Johnson chapter about one sentence, and it was just sort of the, all of it, just the story of the senator that crosses party lines as much as I don't like Andrew Johnson, we can't do this to the presidency. We shouldn't throw him out of office. And I just sort of, you know, I got in then sort of this sort of got into the history and the having reverence for our system.”

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  8. “Look, I sort of got into politics. I can tell you when I sort of thought of it as just a fun thing to follow. Eighth grade. I needed to pick a book to read. My dad said, why don't you do profiles and courage?”

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  9. “Enormous week. We're going to get to the politics soon, but I think it would be really interesting to just people get an idea of who you are. Obviously, you're so well known. And now, since the focus is on politics this year and the last year, a lot of people that are cover politics are getting incredibly well known. Talk about your background. You started off just as a political junkie, or what were you doing?”

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