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EP. 129: Making Texas History: An Interview with Governor Rick Perry (Part 2)

Wise About Texas

Ken Wise

Texan, Places & Travel, Education, Texas, Cowboy, History, Society & Culture, Culture, Jacinto, Texans, San

51K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary


Governor Rick Perry is the longest serving Governor in Texas history. From his humble beginnings in Paint Creek, to the cockpit of an Air Force C-130, to the Governor's Mansion and on to Washington D.C. Governor Perry has an unmatched career in public service. In this wide-ranging interview, we discuss what Texas and Texas history means to a man who made a lot of it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Howdy and welcome to Wise about Texas, the Texas History Podcast. This is your host, Ken Wise.

0:13.0

Thank you very much for tuning in today

0:15.0

for part two of the interview with the longest serving governor

0:18.0

in Texas history, Rick Perry.

0:21.0

Got some great feedback on part 1, you all loved it, so please enjoy Part 2 of making

0:28.4

Texas history an interview with Governor Rick Perry. I want to go, you mentioned something when you're telling that was a great story about living in the mansion.

0:40.0

In the weight of history, tell us more about that.

0:45.0

I know everybody's going to want to know the answer

0:47.0

to whether there were any ghosts in the mansion.

0:49.0

So, certainly don't leave that out.

0:51.0

But what, I mean, a day in the life in the governor's

0:53.5

mansion what do you see you see famous art maps furniture same Houston's bedroom

0:58.5

you see all of the above I mean living in the mansions living in a museum

1:02.1

because that's what it is.

1:04.2

The upstairs, half of the upstairs is the governor's living quarters.

1:09.0

That's where Anita and I lived, you know, in our children. We raised our children there.

1:13.8

Griffin was going into his junior year.

1:16.4

Well, he was halfway through his junior year.

1:19.4

Sydney was halfway through her freshman year.

1:21.6

No, eighth grade year going into Austin High

1:25.8

when we moved into the mansion. So and in the mansion it was an interesting

1:32.3

place but hadn't And the mansion was an interesting place,

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