Episode #380: War Hero, Senate Giant — The Man From Russell, Kansas
Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Ken Rudin
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🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Carl Hulse of the New York Times dissects the decision by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin to oppose President Biden’s Build Back Better bill, citing its costs.
And we remember Bob Dole, the former Senate Majority Leader and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, who died earlier this month at the age of 98. We have an interview with former Sen. Alan Simpson, who was Dole’s assistant leader for ten years in the Senate, conducted two days after Dole’s passing. And we are replaying two interviews conducted back in 2014, about Dole’s decision in 1996 to leave the Senate, which he cherished, to campaign full-time for president. Those interviews were with Sheila Burke, Dole’s longtime chief of staff, and Walt Riker, Dole’s press secretary both in the Senate and during his 1988 bid for the White House.
Music heard in this podcast:
Happy Xmas (War is Over) by John Lennon
Bob Dole button designed by Herb Shemwell.
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| 0:00.0 | Heading into a new year, it's still more COVID deaths and more Trump reality denial. |
| 0:06.5 | Trying to decide if we're experiencing deja vu on the political junkie. |
| 0:12.0 | You like Ike, I like like, everybody likes ake. |
| 0:15.4 | For president. |
| 0:16.2 | Add light to you, and lead to me, I don't care how you quoted. |
| 0:20.3 | Come on and vote for Kennedy, vote for Kennedy, and we'll come out on top. |
| 0:27.3 | Vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, because they're the ones to lead the USA. |
| 0:36.5 | Thanks for joining us, and welcome to episode 380 of the political junkie. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Ken Ruden. |
| 0:43.8 | We had a much more ambitious show plan for this week, but for an assortment of reasons, |
| 0:49.2 | we were forced to pare down to just two topics. |
| 0:52.0 | The announcement by West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin that he could |
| 0:55.8 | not support the Biden-build-back-better bill, which essentially killed a top item on the president's |
| 1:01.4 | bucket list for his first year, and a farewell to Bob Dole, the former Senate Republican |
| 1:07.0 | majority leader and 1996 GOP presidential nominee, who died earlier this month at the age of 98. |
| 1:14.8 | Our yearly special, remembering those in the political and media world we lost this year, |
| 1:20.1 | will be our next program. |
| 1:22.4 | Okay, it's pop quiz time. |
| 1:24.9 | So who's topping the Democrats' despise list for 2021? Who gets their black |
| 1:30.3 | call for Christmas? If you guess Donald Trump or Tucker Carlson or Kevin McCarthy or Paul Gossar or Mark Meadows or any of the predictable villains, you'd be wrong. |
| 1:42.1 | It's Joe Manchin. Manchin is, though some may disagree, a Democratic |
| 1:47.5 | Senator from West Virginia who has been causing pain for President Biden and the 50-50 Democratic |
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