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Robert Gibbs

lines on the record: 106
first: 2016-08-22
most recent: 2016-08-22
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Yeah, I mean, again, it wasn't a very big town. So, quite frankly, it was anywhere you could go and register anybody because it's a nonpartisan organization seeking to do Could get more people involved in the process”
2016-08-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 74 - Robert Gibbs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was a substitute teacher at what was then the black high school in my town. Again, this is, I mean, I was probably right before I was born. It was actually the school I went to as a middle school, but it was Drake High School when she was a substitute teacher there. So it was, the League of Women Voters was the big thing. I remember being very involved in discussing and talking about current events was probably as politically active as that.”
2016-08-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 74 - Robert Gibbs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Interestingly, you know, George Wallace was governor of Alabama from 1983 to 1987. He came back. So part of my childhood, he's the governor. I mean, it's obviously a different governor than in the 60s, but my mother, probably my earliest political memories, my mother was very involved at that point in the League of Women Voters. And I remember being dragged to voter registration events as a kid. My brother and I ambling into the car to go to something like that. And my mother, you know, they wouldn't strike you as socially active or anything like that. They weren't volunteer. Now, my mother has, you know, in North Carolina in both the 08 and 2012 knocked on doors and made phone calls and things like that. But that was not either of their roles at that point. My mother taught”
2016-08-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 74 - Robert Gibbs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So she and my father met at Penn State in the library, working in the library. And in 1968, and you can understand the backdrop of what's happening in the south in 1968, they moved to Auburn. And you can imagine my mother from Brooklyn living in Alabama in 1968 must have been quite a quite a sense of shock culturally. But I think I got some of my political leanings from certainly from them.”
2016-08-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 74 - Robert Gibbs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We'll work these out. I'll lie back. So my father was from North Carolina. So he was born obviously raised in the South. My mother was from Brooklyn.”
2016-08-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 74 - Robert Gibbs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They both worked at the University Library And I interestingly, for much of my childhood hated to read, but that's a whole other podcast, I'm sure.”
2016-08-22 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 74 - Robert Gibbs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source