Bob Dole Remembered with Mike Pettit, Former Chief of Staff

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🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Center Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy join former Chief of Staff Mike Pettit, to honor the legacy of Senator Bob Dole, who died on Dec. 5, 2021. Dole was one of the longest-serving Republican leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives. He was a Vice Presidential and Presidential candidate, and received the Congressional Gold Medal.

Featuring:

Bob Shrum - Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife
Mike Murphy - Co-Director, Center for the Political Future; NBC Political Analyst
Mike Pettit - Former Chief of Staff and Presidential Campaign Adviser for Sen. Bob Dole

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.3	Hi, I'm Bob Trump, the director of the Center for the Political Future at USC Dornsife.
0:35.1	I'm here with my co-director, Mike Murphy, for our last bully pulpit of the
0:40.9	semester, an unscheduled one on Bob Dole, it's called Bob Dole remembered. Mitchell, Mike Petit,
0:48.4	is our guest. He served as an administrative assistant, chief of staff, presidential campaign advisor for Senator Dole.
0:56.3	He's a former board member of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas,
1:02.2	and he's just returned from the service on Capitol Hill where Senator Dole has been lying in state.
1:09.7	I think I want to begin, as the Democrat on this panel,
1:13.8	with a kind of personal remorse. In the 1972 campaign, where I was George McGovern's speechwriter,
1:21.5	there was no fiercer critic of McGovern than Robert Dole, who was chairman of the Republican National Committee as well as being a senator.
1:33.5	And what struck me was that two or three years later, in the 1970s, they were working closely together to save and expand food stamps, to pass all sorts of
1:46.6	federal nutrition programs.
1:48.6	I was the staff director and chief counsel of the Senate committing on nutrition and
1:53.1	human needs and worked with Senator Dole, alongside Senator McGovern.
1:59.7	And he was conservative without question, but he was also
2:04.9	compassionate, and for him it wasn't just a slogan. I remember in 1976 when he was the vice
2:12.9	presidential nominee with Gerald Ford, and he was receiving a lot of criticism. I wrote a column called
2:18.2	Dole's Other Side that said, this is a complex person. Sure, he's a tough politician, and he's an
2:25.3	effective one, but he's also someone who, after the war, when he was wounded, was in a full body
2:31.5	cast, laid in a hospital for Mike would know exactly how long,
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