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George Will

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first: 2019-09-23
most recent: 2019-09-23
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Subscription cancellations in George Will was the same thing. And I think about March of that year, just about the time Nixon had to fire Haldeman and Ehrlichman. I got a call from Al Haig. He said, the boss really likes what you're writing and would like to invite you to come on board the White House. And I said, that's extremely flattering.”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Constitutional crisis. I became a columnist in January 73, just at the moment when Judge Sirica was imposing the draconian sentences on James McCord and the rest of the Watergate group. And I rather quickly Washington editor of National Review. And National Review at that time, and still, but even more so, then, was supported by Wealthy conservative donors a lot of whom didn't really like Nixon until he became clear he was a crook then they rallied round him and so Bill has this new Washington editor who decided really early on that Nixon was a crook and was probably going to have to go. So I'm writing this stuff and Bill was terrific. He never once said tone it down nothing. Although they used to do an analysis at National Review, they do a memo every few weeks of the mail that came in. And the category”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I assume I was going to go back and Toronto said you can come back. But when I got down here, I got the bug. And I thought and I think I was right that you can do... Essentially, what you're doing in political philosophy with a column if you do it right. You can tell people there are large principles embedded in quotidian disputes.”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. So I called Bill Buckley and I said for whom I'd written a few things. And I said, you need a Washington editor of National Review. And Bill essentially said, you're right, I doing you're it. Bill just collected young people he thought had some promise.”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Republican leader in the Senate. And the third ranking in the hierarchy, the chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, was elected was Gordon Allard of Colorado, a senator, of whom I had never heard. And he said, I want to hire a Republican academic to write for me. Since 1969, there were no Republican academics except me, and I was in Canada. But through serendipity, he found out. Where I was, and I came down. I thoroughly intended to go back. I worked for him for three years. He ran in 72, managed to lose while Nixon was carrying 49 states. Now, that's not easy to do.”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, there's another Illinois person figures in this. I was teaching at the University of Toronto in 1969 when Everett Dirksen died. And they shuffled the Republican Senate leadership.”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I was interested in political philosophy and it was just the idea of being paid to read political philosophy and write and think and argue about it sounded good.”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I went to Princeton's graduate school in the fall of 64, and in the faculty poll, Goldwater finished third. Johnson Humphrey First, Some Peace and Freedom type from California and poor old Berry down there”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very interested, and I was a kind of Orthodox Kennedy Democrat who worked with the Kennedy people in Connecticut when I was at Trinity College in 1960. I was right behind the candidate on the steps of the Hartford Times building. I think it was the Hartford Times building, when he came through, I think, two days before the election. And then I went to England for two years. 62 to 64, where I saw A the energies of a great people being suffocated by collectivism and socialism as I saw it. And the Berlin Wall had just gone up. And I went to Berlin. I came back in 1964 and voted for Goldwater.”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was very interested, and I was a reader of the reporter magazine now deceased in the New Republic in the nation and all of that.”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Typical American socialist, he's a Princeton graduate. We don't know how to do socialism in this country. And then they were quite smitten with Adley Stevenson. And my father wound up being a Reagan vot”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think my parents, again, remember they graduate into the Depression and I think they voted a number of times for Norman Thomas”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Little league team. Yes, I peaked a little early at age 12. And our color was black, needless to say. But you notice a typical good Midwestern medium-sized town with a local car dealers in the funeral home sponsored teams”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I've written 15 books, one of which is sold more, I think, than the other 14 combined called Men at Work, the Craft of Baseball. And I spent two happy years sitting in dugouts and clubhouses and hotel lobbies flying around with teams. I wrote the book as no one had written it for me. I want to know what was going on out there. So I got Tony Larusa and Tony Gwen and Cal Ripkin and Oral Hirscheiser and found out”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can't remember life without it. I think it's partly because baseball was literally in the air, it was a radio sport then. I grew up in 1941. There were two teams in Chicago, two in St. Louis. St. Louis Browns were still there before they moved to Baltimore. So it was literally in the air, and I think it represented Metropolitan America to me and the glamour of the big cities.”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, he didn't care about it, neither my mother until it became clear to them that if they wanted to talk to me about anything for about 10 years, they had to learn. So my mother became a White Sox fan so we could have something to argue about.”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Good question because it's right at the dividing line between the people who look north and people who look south. And at an age too tender to make life-shaping decisions I had to choose, and I chose the Cubs, all my friends became cardinal fans and grew up cheerful and liberal. And I became a gloomy conservative.”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wills were from Western Pennsylvania. My grandfather, my father's father was a Lutheran minister who went from one said Braish to another, winding up in Denora, Pennsylvania, ground zero for what's happened to the steel industry.”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I'm the son of a college professor, Frederick L. Will, professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois for 37 years. I went to Princeton and got a PhD intending to teach and briefly did at Michigan State University and then the University of Toronto. Actually, when I left Oxford, I applied to Harvard Law School in Princeton in philosophy, and I chose Princeton because it was midway between two National League cities.”
2019-09-23 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 348 — George Will · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source