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Neil King Jr.

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  1. “Course, that was such an extraordinary moment that any of us around have witnessed it will never forget. But I was one of just two terrorism reporters, two National Security Reporters. So I actually had written the first profile of Osama bin Laden that had run on the Wall Street Journal in, I think, 99. And, you know, those planes slammed into the World Trade Center towers. There were two of us that we didn't know instantaneously what was going on, but pretty quickly did. And then was it?”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Yeah, so we had the great fortune when we were in Prague of actually being hired on First As Stringers by the Wall Street Journal and we became the Prague chorus Sheyla and I both the Prague correspondents for the Wall Street Journal than we were hired on officially as reporters in 95 and we moved to Brussels and we covered all kinds of things throughout the rest of that decade. And we basically missed most of the Clinton administration because we were outside of the country. And then we came back to Washington as writers for the Wall Street Journal into the Washington Bureau right towards the end of the Clinton administration.”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Yeah, it's much more dangerous today, obviously, for a journalist. In those days, I mean, I went many times to Russia and did stories that by today's standards would have gotten me, you know, thrown in jail, as is the case.”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “You know, I think we were, and not in large part, but we were definitely had a hand in all of that. I mean, the just throwing things up willy-nilly in the sense that capitalistic forces are such that they sort of create their own rationality over time, you know, the invisible hand, so to speak, the invisible hand can also be a kleptocratic, you know, pilfering hand. So it doesn't always work so cleanly, and I don't see a lot of indications in some of these places, particularly Russia, that it's going to even out over time and become something that we would recognize as what we would have wanted to see happen there.”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Well, I mean, it's, you know, that was an amazing time because we all, you know, America was astride the globe. Our model of life was so predominant. We had the, you know, peace dividend and all that sort of stuff that was coming our way, you know, domestically. But on the other hand, and we certainly see this now in Russia, that the privatization of the economy was a huge bonanza for the rich oligarch types who immediately began to take over and it became not in all of those countries, but in much of them, particularly in Russia, just a huge kind of kleptocracy. And, you know, we saw the hopeful phase of that, but we also saw the beginning of the sour dispiriting side of it as well.”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “I tell people that it was the longest sustained good news story that any journalist could ever ask for. We ended up in Prague. The American public was so thirsty for news about the opening up of the Soviet Union and that whole sphere. And we just told stories for you. And you could travel without much danger to all these countries as we did and just sort of tell the myriad stories of a region awakening. And it was a really fantastic stretch and an amazing time to be in Prague in the early 90s.”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “It was exactly that. Yeah, you know, both of us decided that we were going to kind of make a big jump in. It would be too hard to sort of apply and work our ways overseas. It was a fantastic time to be. Foreign correspondent, you kn”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Exactly. Yeah, which was a fantastic time in journalism, you know, all the crazy people that ended up in, I mean, literally crazy people, serial killers and every other kind of person that would end up in Florida in those days. And we got to cover it all. And then we left there and we went overseas to Prague.”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Absolutely. We were at Northwestern. We met there, and our journalism careers actually became almost identical until she left journalism to go into the White House because we both went to Florida. We had our jobs there.”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Know, I'd always been essentially at heart a writer, and I just figured that the best way to be a writer and make a living as a writer was to go into journalism. So I went to Northwestern Journalism School and went off to Florida for my first job.”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “You know, the guy himself was the head monk, was actually from the Netherlands, so he wasn't exactly tiny. But yeah, I think I did have that honor.”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “I tell that story a little bit in the book that I ended up. I was in Sri Lanka and I heard about a monastery there in this incredibly beautiful place in the middle of the island. And I went there and the monks said, okay, you can come join the monastery. And I had to get specials outfit of clothing and give up leave everything behind. And I lasted about two and a half weeks until the pressures of trying to think of nothing or whatever I was there to do kind of closed in on me. And I fled further on my trip around the world.”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “I kind of joke that I got, I graduated from high school and I sort of walked right off the platform with my diploma and just headed east and went straight to Europe, spent the whole year there. I ended up taking a year off between high school and college and traveled all over the place. I ended up in Alaska working on a fishing boat. I was a fairly consummate hitchhiker back in the days before hitchhiking just, you know, went by the wayside entirely. I'm one of the few folks around, I guess, at this point who can say that they literally hitchhike from one coast to the other all in one go. You know, since the days of Jack Kerouac, that's become a thing that nobody does anymore.”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “I don't know. I might have been the likeliest one to fall for the lure, but it just didn't really ever take hold. And my dad kind of applauded us for that. And we all kind of went our different ways and none of us went into that direction despite the fact that it had been in the family for multiple generations. And, you know, I'm the only one of really my family going back many, many generations to have succumbed to the lure to move east. everything else in my family story literally going back to the beginning when the folks first arrived on the continent has been always a eastward mile sorry a westward migration all of my siblings either live now in colorado or in san francisco and um for whatever reason i have lived most of my life either in europe or in on the east coast of the united states”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Court of Appeals and Alfred Rufus King. And my grandfather then was the dean of the Colorado School of Law at the University of Colorado for a long time. I think the longest serving dean of that law school. My dad was a lawyer in turn in Boulder, Colorado for years and years.”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “You know, my great grandfather on my father's side. It's one of those interesting moments in American history when you're talking about the 1870s. He went to what became Northwestern Law School. He headed west from a farm basically in In Illinois and became a founder of a town basically a town of Delta, which is on the western slope of the Rockies. And, you know, I went there years ago. You can see his initials on the original plat deeds when they laid out the town. And he was a kind of a town burger. He was the first mayor of one of the early mayors of that town. He became a judge. And he then went and was on the Colorado State Appeals Court”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axe Files, with your host, David Axelrod.”

    2023-04-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 529 — Neil King Jr. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source