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Gloria Borger

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  1. “Covered cops 5 a.m. went to a scene of a crime and almost had to go out and throw up in the hallway. And the cops were very nice to me. But yeah, I did it. I did the cop beat. So journalism at newspapers, as you know very well, is an apprentice.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “We didn't have confidence in the ways that women do now. When I speak with my younger colleagues, they're much more confident than I was as a young woman because they're more of them around. And we didn't have as many women to go to. And we didn't have role models or mentors. That was unheard of. And so it was just a very, very different environment. And so I'm so glad that women now can talk to each other about things that we never did before.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Yeah, they were. And, you know, I just was chatting with a bunch of women my age about looking back on what we kind of put up with And it's interesting because I'm lucky enough never to have been harassed in the way that so many of these women were. But, you know, we all had experiences. Like my first boss whom I loved and who's now gone, you know, once told me after I had been at the star for he was a metro editor, after I'd been at the star for a while. Well, you know, I only hired you because I thought you had good legs, but you turned out to be okay. And I came home that night and I said to my husband, you, but whatever. I just, we didn't. I just knew that that was sort of the way it was. And looking back, there's a lot of stuff we shouldn't have put up with. But we didn't have numbers.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Right, would you like to cover education? And I said, no, not really. And they said, well, but that's how you'll get your start. So instead, I covered, I said, I don't really want to cover education. They said, well, the only place we can put you is in Prince George's County covering the county politics. And I said, great. I'll go there. So I drove 45 minutes every day in a car a little old car provided by the Washington Star that broke down. And then I covered that. And then I covered the Annapolis legislature. And so I got into politics kind of through the... The back door until Dermond kind of brought me on the more national scene.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “At the Washington Star. Yeah. And so we were. Able to learn from these guys, and they were terrific to us. They just couldn't have been better and more welcoming. And so these experiences kind of got me into political reporting. When I went to the Washington Star, they asked me if I wanted to cover education. Which was true.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “And there are no more relationships. And Germond was sort of a master at that. And the candidates, what sun me is this young baby reporter was the candidate, like whether it was Mondale or whoever it was, would ask Germond what he was hearing and was he doing okay. And they would have conversations not only about policy but about what was going on on the road. And so it was amazing to learn from somebody like Germond who knew the macro politics, but also the micro politics. And there weren't a lot of us women at that time. I mean, now I would say political journalism is over half female if I had to guess. But there weren't a lot. And for Jack to sort of open the door to a bunch of us Mooreing Dowd with colleague.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “It's harder to practice today. Well, it is. And that's, you know, that was my introduction to covering politics because Jermond hired me and took a shot on this kid. And Mary McGrory was a columnist at The Washington Star. And she would travel with us. And Jermond was, it was just amazing to work with him because he would, it was at a time when you covered politics, when you went down to the bar at night and the candidate would actually come down and have a drink with you. Yes. And there was such a thing as off the record Which does not exist anymore”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Right. And then I came back and I had worked at the Washington Star, the now defunct evening newspaper, which legendary. I worked.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Yeah, today's dollar. So we went to, so we lived in London for a year, and it was great. He was working at the time in Buffalo, so he had to make a choice between the Buffalo Courier Express and living in London for a year. That was tough. That's good. If he had made the other decision, you would have known.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “So that may appear. Yeah, I got a Watson Fellowship. Before that, so when I graduated Colgate, I got this fellowship and it was $6,500 if you were single and $8,000 if you were married. So I called my now husband and proposed. And I said, well, come on over. Well, we're going to get married. Let's go to London together. And so he knows what he's worth, right? And then today's...”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Right. So she is an amazing vote counter. She knows how to get people together. She understands she's transitional. She's 78 years old. She gets it. But wouldn't you want her on your side if running, if you've got to bring generations together and try and get legislation through at least one or two things, you know how it was with healthcare? She was your guide dog, right?”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “Look, I think Nancy Pelosi and David, you know this better than I do because you went through the healthcare war. Without Nancy Pelosi.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “I don't think Donald Trump can because he can't compartmentalize. And so, and we saw that today. So I think that she will try and do it, but there's no doubt in my mind at some point it's just going to collapse.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Get those things done because their constituents care about that, about drug prices. But you can walk and chew gum at the same time.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Well, and Nancy Pelosi was very clear. I mean, you know, immediately Donald Trump said effectively, I can't work with you if you decide to do your job, which is to oversight. And Nancy Pelosi said, whatever we do, we'll do it the right way and in our own time. And you can be sure it'll be organized. And it's going to be within the rules. And so I think Ron is right. And Pelosi pointed out, look, there are things maybe we can work together on, like pre-existing conditions, for example, pharmaceuticals, drug prices infrastructure.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Right, and he threatened to retaliate against them. And of course, now with Jeff Sessions resigning, Being fired actually, they're going to investigate it.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “You know, I think Donald Trump today in his press conference tried to make it seem as if he was just fine with the Democrats taking back the House.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Exactly, exactly. But I remember at that moment thinking this is different. This is the beginning of something. And being disappointed time and time again. And not only in politics, obviously, but in every career. So to see this happen in politics is really exciting. The challenge now is to not judge women by a different standard.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “How do you process that? Well, I love it. I always think people turn to women when they need the mess cleaned up in many ways. It works that way in my house. And I think that now people... Wear my house too, anyway. Yeah, people are turning to women because they are different and they are authentic and they provide something new. And I think that when you see 100 women now in Congress, it's very exciting. I mean, I go back. Long enough to recall when women could not wear pants on the floor of the Senate, when there was no ladies' bathroom outside the Senate chamber. I remember standing on the floor of the convention when Jerry Ferraro was nominated.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “It was. Well, I loved the school. I was afraid of being a member of the first class. I actually wanted to go to Princeton, but I didn't get in. So Colgate was my second choice, and happily I ended up there. But it was a very strange thing. You know, when you think back on it, and I've talked to a lot of women at Colgate about it since, and Colgate is now 51% female, They prepared for us by putting plastic flowers in the urinals in the men's bathroom, and they gave us irons and ironing boards. And I remember my father turning to my mother and saying, I'm not going to leave her here.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “Preserved. Right. I was in the very first class of women. I am the oldest living female graduate of Colgate University. So I was in the first class of women there.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “Nothing's really changed. And I went to college. I was editor of my college paper. So I kind of stuck with that. And, you know, my husband always says to me, you're so lucky because you knew what you wanted to do from day one. I'm not sure I did, but I liked it, and I still do.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  23. “I don't know. I think I've always been kind of a gossip, and I like to ask questions. The Huguenot Herald was what it was. And we put it out, I think, every couple of weeks. And so it was great. Experiment because I loved it so much in high school. I knew, and it was crazy that early on, but I just loved the reporting and I love the writing and I love causing the faculty to get upset with what we were doing.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  24. “Politics was not a big issue in my house. My parents are Democrats, we're Democrats, and it was just kind of assumed. But no, not really issues were discussed. Local issues were discussed. My mother was very involved. But politics per se, not so much. I was the editor of my high school newspaper, you'll be surprised to learn. And so I was very involved with the politics of my high school. But at home, it was sort of much more traditional than the way my kids grew up in Washington, D.C. where politics was discussed nonstop.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  25. “It actually was. It actually was. It was divided by one road in town, but It actually was a pretty diverse high school. And My friends were black and white, which for those days, and I'm an old lady, was kind of amazing. And so that's how we grew up. And there were a lot of private schools around, but we couldn't afford it. And I'm glad I didn't go, actually.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  26. “There was an arsonist. Actually, my junior year, and then my senior year we went to school in trailers. And I actually just went back to Newer Shell High School to speak to the students there. And it was a phenomenal experience for me because it's now 2,500 kids, all kinds of education from kids who end up at Harvard to special vocational training. It's just an amazing place. So it was a wonderful place to go to high school.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  27. “I actually was born in the Bronx, and when my father opened an air conditioning television store with his brother, we moved to the suburbs. We moved to Durchell, New York, but we lived in an apartment building, never lived in a house. My mother was a homemaker and my father commuted into the city every day. I went to public schools, culminating in the wonderful New Roar Shell High School, which was a very large high school. I think my graduating class had six or seven hundred kids, very diverse, and it burned down my senior year.”

    2018-11-12 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 285 — Gloria Borger · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source