More health questions about Mitch, an indictment expected for Hunter,

and what's politics without a threat of a shutdown?

Summer's over, kids, and it's time for school on the political junkie.

You like Ike, I like like, everybody likes I for president.

Add light to you, and think to me, I don't care how you quoted.

Come on and vote for Kennedy, vote for Kennedy, and we'll come out on top.

Vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, because they're the ones to lead the USA.

Thanks for joining us, and welcome to episode 401 of the political junkie.

I'm Ken Rudin.

Most of us are just getting back from our summer vacations, and for that reason I wasn't

planning on an episode this week, but the deaths of two special people last week prompted me to rerun interviews I had with them years ago.

The first is Bill Richardson, the former congressman, governor, ambassador, diplomat, and presidential candidate, who died last Friday at the age of 75.

I spoke with him in episode number 24, back in April of 2014, when for some reason I talked

much faster than I do now.

It was a fun conversation about the difficulty of getting noticed as a presidential hopeful

when heavy weights like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were

also in the race. Richardson was very candid about what he was facing. Less well-known but also

quite influential was Jerry Carman, an owner of a tire business in New Hampshire, who played a key

role in Ronald Reagan's 1980 primary victory in the

Granite State. He also died on Friday at 93. I had Jerry on the political junkie in August of

2018 to talk about former Nevada Senator Paul Laxold, who had died that month and whose White

House Exploratory Committee was led by Jerry.

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