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Juliet Macur

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  1. “Course, yeah. When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a world champion track and field person, track and field athlete. And I recently found this write-up that I did in fifth grade saying that I would be the first woman to win five gold medals in track and field, and I would be the first woman to do that over men, that's a quote. So I would not only win five gold medals, but I would beat all the men too. So I had high aspirations.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I couldn't play basketball because I got hurt. I hurt my knee in a car accident. My senior year of high school. So I saw a flyer on the wall of our dorm saying you should go to try to join the rowing team. And I thought, rowing, that's great. It doesn't use your legs. It only uses your arms. I can do this. Little did I know it use mostly your legs. And in fact, every single sinew in your entire body is required in rowing. But I fell in love with it because it was a good team sport, but it was also kind of torture. So you're all in this torture together. And it was also beautiful because you'd be out in the water. And I went to school at Columbia University. So we were on the tip of Manhattan and was pretty silent up there and very peaceful, as peaceful as you can get in Manhattan.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Yeah, I tried something completely different. I was a rower starting my sophomore year. I started to row and then I did that after college also for the New York Athletic Club.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “All the time. Yeah, I grew up, our family was pretty sporty. My dad was a semi-pro soccer player, so we grew up playing volleyball, you know, pickup games of volleyball in the backyard and going for runs and things like that, doing lots of camping. But I always was into sports because my dad loved it. And I just like doing things that he liked to do. So I was a runner initially and then a basketball player.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “She only found out later when we actually our car broke down going to the ski slope where he had to call her and say her car was broken down and she was asking why we were there on a school day when I was supposed to be in school. So that kind of ruined it for us, ruined our secret. But we did all kinds of sports and he was a wonderful daddy. helped me with basketball and was”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Exactly. I don't think we ever saw football on television American football, not even once, but every weekend we watch Wide World of Sports back when they had that a lot of Olympic sports on that Saturday like preceded by some bowling. Watch some bowling and then some boxing. So we just kind of watch that. But most of the time we went out and did things together. We did any sport you could think of we tried. He was an excellent skier. We skied almost every weekend in the winter and then he would let me skip out of school during the week and take me skiing during the week without telling my mom”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Until we went to the couple towns over, which was really great. It was more of a bucolic town. It was a big township. And my dad bought a plata land and built a house with his own hands with a bunch of friends. Some guy knew some plumbing, some guy was an electrician. They all just got together and built their own house.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “That's kind of an understatement, but it was great because it was all Polish people. You didn't have to speak English. Everybody knew each other. Everybody went to school at the same school. It was actually a nice place to live”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Exactly. Well, for nine years we lived in a house that my parents had bought, which was in a, I wouldn't say it's a terrible town, but it was a town that was that had a Johns Manville asbestos factory in it. So, you know, if you pick a town that you would like to grow up and that probably wouldn't be the one. And we lived abutting a place called Vinny's Auto Salvage. So that was sort of in our backyard. He saved his money and we moved a bit.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “To high school and he didn't even speak English, so he missed out on all that education, but he was the smartest guy I knew. And yeah, he was great.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Right. Well, he during the war and the labor camps, he was only a kid when he was taking these big pieces of furniture and wood up six flights of stairs on no food for more, I think it was a year and a half at least. When he came to America, it was slightly easier than that. At least they had food. But he worked as a sort of a, I would say like a mechanic for a while in a quarry and then moved on to work at a place called Foley Machinery. They worked on big caterpillar tractors and he was an expert mechanic there. But yeah, he wanted to do great things with his life, be a inventor and a scientist and do wonderful things with an education, but he never got an education because he missed out on it because of the war. And when he came to America, he wasn't able to pick up where he left off in second grade. They just kind of sent him.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “No, he was a blue collar kind of guy. And it's funny you just have that vision of your dad in your head and nobody ever really called him a laborer. But I suppose he really was.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Where my mom and dad met at this, what they called a Polish Falcons camp, where all the Polish immigrants would come and go to fancy dances and go see the soccer players play on the weekends and basically socialize with people who were basically all from the same part of Poland. So it was pretty neat. So that's how they met.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Exactly. It was just a natural move for them. Well, actually, they didn't speak any English when they went there, and it's good because the people in Cajun country didn't speak English either. So it actually worked out for him. But they were there working for the family for a few years and then eventually they went to New Jersey.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Well, initially, they went to the displaced persons camp, and there they heard that just the stereotype of what people were saying, the U.S. is, the streets are paved with gold there. You should go to the US. And they had different options. They could go to Brazil or Australia, Canada, US, and both of the families, they didn't know each other back then, but they ended up choosing the US. My dad was a My dad was sent to rural Louisiana, he was sponsored by a family in the tiny town of Villa.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Exactly. Well, my dad was liberated by the British and my mom's camp was in Hanover was an ammunitions camp was liberated by the Americans. No, I actually think it was opposite, that my dad's camp was liberated by the Americans because just this weekend at my aunt's funeral, somebody produced a photo of my aunt who was pretty young back then. She was probably just a young teenager on top of a jeep, a US jeep with a couple GIs sitting there, which we had never seen this picture before. It was really neat because they had talk about what it was like to be liberated, but just to see the look on her face, it was pretty amazing.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “Both of my parents are from Poland, what is now Lithuania, Vilnius, they're from Vilnius, which was Vilno back then, which was part of Poland. During the war, they were taken away from that area and the train cars, shipped off to Dachau, which was a concentration camp, obviously one of the most famous ones, spent a few months there and then were sent to the Nazi labor camps, the slave labor camps there in Germany. So they were young kids back then and didn't have the best experiences there, didn't have much food or any food. My mom's sister died of starvation, and my mom was very young, sort of was in charge of her keep. That was pretty tough. People being shot and killed inside the camps.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Right, exactly. So I ended up mostly answering phone calls for him and getting him Chinese food for lunch every day with no MSG. He always would say that. So it's definitely, that was my main job was no MSG. So I was very good at that. Very good at delivering food. But I had wanted to be a politician, I guess, or go into cover Washington eventually.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “She's got her ideas and she said, are you at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics because you go into politics finally? And I said, sorry, mom, not yet, but there's still hope. When I was young, she was involved in sort of community politics, not on a very high level, but for some reason in some way I ended up doing phone calls for Republican state candidates. I'm not even sure how I got involved in all that. I was in freshman year in college. I was an intern for Ted Weiss, who was definitely not a Republican. No, no, he was.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “I didn't start out to be a sports writer when I was a kid, as my mom reminded me this past weekend when I was visiting her at home in New Jersey, because she still actually doesn't want me to be a sports writer.”

    2016-01-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 27 - Juliet Macur · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source