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Trent Lott

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  1. “He was very pragmatic. People don't realize that. I mean, all this fussing now about immigration reform, you know, the Simpson Mazzoli immigration reform was a Reagan initiative. I remember, though, about a year after that, I think we passed that in 86.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Well, I learned number one that if you know that you're going to put somebody in your cabinet, it's not unfair to advise them. The bottom line was I had a guy I was very close to. He was going to be my chief of staff, but I didn't want to tell him. I thought that was inappropriate. I wound up losing his fraternity, which was enough to tip the election.”

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  3. “Conservative philosophically, particularly economically, I didn't really think a whole lot about it until I got into law school. I was always involved in campus politics, but it was running for cheerleader. I ran for President Student Body at Old Miss at lost by 31 votes. But I learned so many good lessons and that loss I hadn't lost one since.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Well, it was early on in the sixties, you know what we went through in the civil rights era and the merit of thing and the integration of schools. But it was a lot different on a personal basis on a local level than you might think. My hometown of Pascula, Mississippi integrated our schools early without a bauble. But it was a lot more difficult in other areas and in other states. So that was part of it. But in my case, it was, you know, my whole family was always.”

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  5. “He played it well, and then we had a group of People that were determined we were going to change the dynamics in the late 70s. A lot of it was led by Jack Kemp, had a different attitude, and Newt Gimrich, and basically their motto or what they were saying to us, the young rebels that we were with our blow dry haircut they accused us of was that we had to change our language, that all Republicans talked about was Root Canal budget problems. We never talk positively about what you can do to help the country and to help people and help the infrastructure. And we changed our language and we started making real progress in the late 70s. And of course, that exploded with Reagan. But the Republican Revolution didn't really come to a head until the 90s”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “But so it was beginning to happen, but clearly Lyndon Johnson escalated it, but it still didn't really get going until...”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Yeah, the one that's the state senator. And by the way, when he ran the first time in 1952 for the state senate, his campaign chairman was Joe McCain, John's uncle.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “No, he wasn't at Normandy, but he was at the Battle of the Bulge. He was under 100st Airborne. I see. But he was for Eisenhower, even though he was always elected as a Democrat. So there was beginning to happen.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “My mother was for Eisenhower, and I was really a little taken aback that my mother was pushing back and arguing or saying, I'm voting rising out. Now there was a reason for it. Her brother that served in World War II had served under Eisenhower.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Well, it was beginning to happen already, you know Goldwater in nineteen sixty four carried my state by like 82% of the vote or something. But it goes back beyond that. One of the most vivid political discussions I remember as a kid was in 1952 when I was about 11 my mother and father got in an argument over the presidential election. My father, being a good Democrat, like his family had always been, was forven.”

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  11. “All of them are Democrats. I was 21 years old before I met my first live Republican. As on the old Miss Campus, and they try to get me to join the College Republicans, I said, You got to be kidding. I'm not joining a group like that. But I had started thinking about it when I was practicing law in my hometown of Pasca Couloma, Mississippi. And then when I came to work for Mr. Kalmer, if you'd have asked me when I first came to work for him, I'd have probably said, well, I'm a Mississippi Democrat, whatever that is. but by August of nineteen sixty eight, my first year I crossed the Rubicon and I said, you know what, philosophically, I am a Republican. And so was my wife. She influenced me too, I must confess.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “I did. In fact, he served 40 years, and when he announced he was going to retire, I waited a couple of weeks and then I went in and said, Mr. Commer, I can't presume to succeed, you know, take your place, but I'm going to run to succeed you. And I think you know I'm going to run as a Republican.”

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  13. “First of all, he's a very interesting character. And he even became a Republican. You know that. And I've had a good relationship with him all the year since.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Oh, yeah, it was obviously you know it was a very difficult thing, basically a rot. And some people were shot that night. I actually had to do some interviews afterward about what happened. But I actually got a national award from my fraternity, Sigma New Fraternity, for what I did that night. I spent that night sending runners over to the dormitories to get Sigma News out of the dorm and bring them over to the house to try to protect them and keep them out of that. And none of our brothers were implicated in any way in that. But yeah, and my wife was there in the women's dormitory and she had tear gas flowing into the dormitory. It was a terrible night. But it's typical, I think, of people. After that night, he was on the campus. He went into the classes. We saw him around the campus.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Oh, yeah, that's right. But all my life, I have been in some respects a cheerleader, a cheerleader for my alma mater, cheerleader from my state, cheerleader for my party, cheerleader from my country, and I don't apologize for that.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “No, I used to tell my partner now, Amy, when I have to pick you up, you got to jump, honey, because I can't get you up on my own strength. We had a great relationship. But, you know, I've always been proud of that. Thad Cochrane was an old mischief. I heard that, yeah. And John Stennis was a Mississippi State cheerleader, which I guess just proves that all you need to be successful in Mississippi politics is a loudmouth.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “It was clearly a political office. You ran for it like you'd run for president's student body, which I did subsequently now they're athletes. They come out there doing cartwheels and flips and picking up their partners on their shoulders.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Absolutely, yeah. I guess I learned from them that, you know, one of my mottos when I was in the Senate, the most important vote is not the last vote. It's the next vote. So I tried to leave all my colleagues, Democrat and Republican every day where even if they disagreed or didn't vote with me, I could come back the next day and say, how about this one? That particularly applied to John McCain because, you know, John wouldn't always stay hitched. And I'd get mad at him and he'd get mad at me. But we had a friendship. Actually, his family lived next in the adjoining farm from my family in Mississippi. The McCain family is in Mississippi.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “Well, the best lesson I did learn from my grandfather Lot was that particular thing. He told me as I was gravitating toward getting into politics before he died, he said, remember to always ask for their vote. And they all vote the pocketbook.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “Oh, yeah. In fact, my grandfather a lot was a supervisor for 12 years, and then he was defeated by another lot. That's when you know you have two damn many lots, a cousin. A lot of lots. Yeah. He went to one of the other cousins that he found out had voted for the one that beat him. Why did you our cousin here? He said, well, because you didn't ask me. Plus, he gave me a pint of whiskey. So those were the days.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “Are already out of it in case my grandfather wants them. But as years went by, and particularly once I started working for a Democrat, Congressman Calmer from Mississippi, then I started realizing that maybe it was in my genes that I had been around it all my life. I never felt any”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “Well, my grandfather Lot was a supervisor, county supervisor, and I understand he even was president of the Mississippi Boards of Supervisors. And then my mother's father, Ed Watson, was a Justice of the Peace, and he rode the circuit on a horse, having holding court. He carried a 38 pistol, a lemon squeezer, and a holster he could reach in under his coat and administered. Just to enforce his rulings? Yes, and I have that pistol. And then my uncle that served in World War II was at the Battle of the Bulge, Arnie Watson, was a state senator for 12 years. So I grew up around it. I must confess, you know, I didn't really think a lot about it. Some of my earliest memories go back to when I was handing out push cars, particularly for my uncle. Both my grandfathers, to my memory, basically were ending their political career.”

    2016-03-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 34 - Trent Lott · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source