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Dick Durbin

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  1. “He was the only independent on the city council on those days. The day after he lost the Democratic Senate primary in 1942, he enlisted in the US Marine Corps for World War two”

    2016-01-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 24 - Sen. Dick Durbin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Chicago, he was. And the best part of the story is that Douglas was a senator from 48 to 66. And my favorite story is he ran for the Senate and lost in the primary, Democratic primary in nineteen forty two. He was a faculty member here at the University of Chicago, member of the city council. And the day after the site.”

    2016-01-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 24 - Sen. Dick Durbin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “You know, I think as in most things in life, there are people who inspire you. Paul Douglas inspired me. I thought so highly of him. We should talk.”

    2016-01-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 24 - Sen. Dick Durbin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Yeah, it was midterm Reagan, bad economy, and I beat a twenty two year incumbent named Paul Finley, who now has become a close friend of mine, a wonderful guy, and I look back on it and think, I'd have voted for this cat if I hadn't run against him. And so I ended up being elected.”

    2016-01-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 24 - Sen. Dick Durbin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “I end up graduating law school. My first job is with Simon in Springfield. I bring my wife, baby, and other child on the way. We settle in Springfield. I become parliamentarian of the All United States Senate. Didn't have a clue. There's no course in that in law school. And I learned the job and then looked at the state senators and I thought I could do this. So I worked up the courage, ran for state senator, 76, lost, ran for lieutenant governor seventy-eight lost. Simon said Run as a Kennedy delegate in nineteen eighty lost, and the last try that last try Loretta would let me consider was a race for Congress in nineteen eighty two. Great year for Democrats. Over fifty new Democratic countries.”

    2016-01-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 24 - Sen. Dick Durbin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Georgetown, the School of Foreign Service, two years ahead of Clinton. And so he saw this thing about being an intern. He went to it and came back to our apartment, said, man, this is the coolest thing in the world. I'm in the old Senate office building, and I saw Bobby Kennedy and Teddy Kennedy and Wayne Morris and Jake Jabbits, and I said, do they need another intern? He asked him and he said, we don't get any downstate Democrats. Of course we'll take you. I was from East Louis. So I worked for Paul Douglas, worked on his campaign when he lost against Percy in'66, and met a state senator named Paul Simon, who was campaigning for Paul Douglas. I've heard of that.”

    2016-01-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 24 - Sen. Dick Durbin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “No, my roommate was from Chicago, and John Stucker was his name, and he saw this notice in a bulletin board to be an interns needed office of US Senator.”

    2016-01-18 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 24 - Sen. Dick Durbin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source