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Nancy-Ann DeParle

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  1. “Not directly I had child welfare, rehabilitation services, foster care, child abuse, but I also had what used to be called the AFDC or welfare program. And that is categorically, at that point was categorically linked to Medicaid. So when the governor put together an Indigen health care task force to go around the state figuring out what to do, I was part of that. So that's where I first got involved in health care.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Big and big hearted. So what I learned from him was You know, he was a man who'd been very successful financially. but who never forgot where he came from and Really listen to the people of Tennessee. And that's what led to his very early reform of the healthcare system. People talk about the Massachusetts reform as being what led to the Affordable Care Act, but there's a very real sense in what Tennessee did back in the early 90s also led there because what he did was he reformed Medicaid to Use the dollars more efficiently and cover more people and add people to the roles that way.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Handling a litigation matter in Omaha, Nebraska spending most of my time out there, and he called me up and asked if I would help with his campaign, so I did, and then that's what led to me joining.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “And he said, Well, what are yuppies? And supposedly Squire explained it to him. He goes, Well, I know one of those yuppies. So at that point, I had just started my legal career. I was working as a lawyer.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Media consultant and met with him and said, Governor, I've got good news and bad news. The good news is a lot of people know who you are. You've been speaker for 18 years. The bad news is that you don't do very well among yuppies. Term maybe people wouldn't know these days, but you'll remember it.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “chose me, Ned McWhorter, was Speaker of the House, and we would go over to lobby him. And so that's how I got to know him. So when he was running for governor, the story is I wasn't there, but the story is that Bob Squires, who was meeting.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Well, that led, you know, that came a fairly direct line from that, from my college experience. So as I mentioned in student government, we lobbied the state legislature. To get more funding for the university. And the governor then”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “They timed the announcements I would be thirty because the governor said he just didn't think it looked right to be twenty-nine and taking over the largest department and state government.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “There is this feeling, you know, that it should be. But somehow you shouldn't have to depend on the government. I remember feeling ashamed a little bit in college to go over to the line to pick up my Pell Grant assistance. You know, I remember feeling ashamed working in the cafeteria. It turned out to be a great place to hone my political skills.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “I thought I might, I mean, you mentioned a road scholarship, but one of the others I'm proud of is a Pell Grant You know, I was really helped a lot by People of this country through Pell grants, through my mother's veterans benefits, through the jobs I had in college, I was able to Succeed and to get an education. And I did go back to Tennessee and I did think about maybe one day I would run for something.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Immediately became involved in student government, and we used to go over and lobby the state legislature for funding for the university. And, you know, that's just what I enjoyed.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “I just always loved politics, and I remember in high school I got involved in a political campaign, Tom Wiseman ran for governors, a Democrat, and I worked after school at the live and let live drugstore in Rockwood as a soda jerk. And he came through town and I met him and I came home and I said to my mom, I'm going to be a wiseman gal at the At the rally on Saturday and she's like no, no, no, you're not because back in those days David, you know, a career civil servant, which is what my mom was, could still be worried about losing his or her job if you got politically involved with the other party. So she was worried that I would somehow get her in trouble, but I've always been interested in politics and problem solving. And so when I got to University of Tennessee, you know, it was a huge. 35,000 undergraduate student body.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Got a fair amount of attention. I had a lot of support in doing that. It wasn't me putting myself out there. I had run successfully for vice president. There had been a lot of women vice presidents. Why did you worry when you were?”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Well gosh, I just loved reading, I loved learning and yes, my mom somehow never. Always made me think I could achieve anything. And I had lots of help”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Yes, I was there when she died. So, you know, that was it. But one of the saddest things to me was that she didn't die directly from lung cancer. She probably would have this was in 1974. She probably would have. But what she died of was pneumonia, which she got because she was trying to go to work because she didn't want to.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “It definitely is. Yes. So my mom As I said, worked very hard and raised three children. And when I was a junior in high school, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and actually had some other types of cancer as well, but definitely lung cancer. And she had been a smoker. So I spent my Last couple of years of high school Helping her get back and forth from treatments. And what I remember about it, David, among other things, was she was so frightened and worried about losing her health insurance. She had health insurance through her state job. And also, they told me that she wouldn't make it to my high school graduation, but she did. She was there. And then when I came home, I went to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Or so away, big state university when I came home for Christmas break that year she died.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “My mom was incredible. My mom never spent a day away from us. She raised three kids on her own. My grandmother was also a big figure in my life, and my mom was a state government employee, worked as a clerk typist for the state of Tennessee Department of Conservation.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Well, yes, he interviewed him to get more of the background on him because I really didn't know that much, not having grown up with him and not having seen him in all those years.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “And I wish I had done more, really, my husband interviewed my father to get a little more of his history, so I didn't know much about him at all.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “Connection after all those years. But my older son Nikki did form a bit of a relationship with him and he died a few years ago.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “Well, we saw him a few times they got divorced not long after that and we saw him a few times, but really didn't reconnect with him until I had my second son and my husband who is a reporter for the New York Times found my father. So we reconnected then it's not a big happy ending. I mean it was an awkward ending.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “Yes Yes, they were from this town Rockwood where I grew up. So my mom moved with my dad to Cleveland, Ohio, where he was at Case Western for a while doing engineering. He'd studied engineering in Shanghai. And that's where I was born and my older brother was born. And then they moved to Auburn, Alabama, where my younger brother was born. And my father, I think, struggled to support his family, was a student, and my mom moved back to Rockwood where her mother was. And so I was raised there by her.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  23. “Right. I know all this kind of only in the last few years, David, because I really didn't know my dad. My mom and dad met he came over to study, was at Stanford briefly, and then couldn't afford it and somehow made his way to Knoxville, Tennessee. My mom was working as a nurse there. She was an army nurse in World War II. She and her two brothers both served in the military. Her two brothers were in the Navy and she was in the Army. She was working as a nurse and she met my father there. And then they moved from the United States.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  24. “Did go to the University of Tennessee, and that's one of our songs. Yeah, well, I grew up in a town of 4,000 in East Tennessee, really small place, moved back there with my mom, a single mom who raised three kids on her own.”

    2017-02-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 121 - Nancy-Ann DeParle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source