Episode #420: Decency And Civility, Then And Now

Ken Rudin's Political Junkie

Ken Rudin

Politics, News

4.6 • 633 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump’s election opened up two Senate seats — in Ohio, where JD Vance was elected vice president, and in Florida, where Marco Rubio joined the Trump Cabinet as Secretary of State. Jeremy Pelzer, a political reporter with Cleveland.com and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, talks about new Sen. Jon Husted, who had been Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s lieutenant governor. And Susan MacManus, a leading Florida political analyst, tells us everything we need to know about Ashley Moody, the state’s former attorney general who now succeeds Rubio.
And the recent death of former President Jimmy Carter has Carter biographer Jonathan Alter wondering if the overwhelming sadness about the 39th president’s passing might be tied to the widespread revulsion of the new occupant of the White House.
Music in this episode:
Gimme Some Truth by John Lennon
Susan by Aimee Mann
Turn! Turn! Turn! by the Byrds

Transcript

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0:00.0	A new senator in Ohio, a new senator in Florida, and the same old, same old in the White House.
0:07.8	Maybe worse.
0:09.3	This week on the political junkie.
0:12.1	You like Ike, I like like, everybody likes Ike.
0:15.4	For president.
0:16.2	Add light to you, and think to me, I don't care how you quoted.
0:20.3	Come on and vote for Kennedy
0:22.9	vote for Kennedy
0:24.6	and we'll come out on top
0:27.0	vote for Richard Nixon
0:28.8	and Henry Cabot
0:30.6	because they're the ones to lead the USA
0:34.0	Thanks for joining us and welcome to episode 420 of the political junkie.
0:44.5	I'm Ken Rudin.
0:46.8	Remember the optimism America felt when a new president was sworn into office?
0:52.4	Do John Fitzgerald Kennedy do solemnly swear.
0:56.0	Aye, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear.
0:59.0	Aye, Richard Bill House Nixon do solemnly swear.
1:02.0	Aye, Gerald R. Ford, do solemnly swear.
1:05.0	Aye, Jimmy Carter, do solemnly swear.
1:08.0	Aye, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear.
1:10.0	Aye, George Herbert Walker Bush, do solemnly swear. I, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear. I, George Herbert Walker, Bush, do solemnly swear.
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