#GOP: "I'll be back." The return of Governator, 20 years today. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution
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🗓️ 18 November 2023
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#GOP: "I'll be back." The return of Governator, 20 years today. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution
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| 0:00.0 | This is a B.S. I on the world. Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:07.0 | Arnold Schwarzenegger, movie star, Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the |
| 0:19.0 | comeback kid, I welcome Bill Whelan who reminds me,'ll be back was one of the lines that we all |
| 0:25.1 | loved of Arnold's career I think that was a Terminator line but it's Arnold himself |
| 0:30.2 | and now it's 20 years since his gubernatorial run and Bill's here to remind us the successes |
| 0:38.1 | and the doubts and the celebration. |
| 0:40.5 | Bill a very good evening to you. |
| 0:42.0 | Arnold Schwarzenegger was not a politician. |
| 0:45.0 | He was a movie star, and he took the plunge, I believe, on the Tonight Show is my memory. |
| 0:52.0 | Today, how is he remembered in Congress? Tonight's |
| 0:55.0 | a tonight show is my memory. Today, how is he remembered in California a success of failure or just a movie star? |
| 0:59.0 | I think nostalgia might be the best word to use here John and that Arnold left office in January of |
| 1:05.4 | 2011 so we are coming up soon on 13 years since he was in office. |
| 1:10.8 | The recall was just a global event here in California. |
| 1:14.3 | You remember very well, John, I remember speaking to you |
| 1:17.4 | from a train. |
| 1:18.5 | I was going to a baseball game in San Francisco, |
| 1:20.9 | and Arnold out of the blue goes on the tonight show and drops the bomb and you know we |
| 1:26.2 | thought it could have happened but we didn't really see it coming and it just kind of made for 60 days of just |
| 1:30.9 | this fantastic political intrigue in California. State politics have not been as |
| 1:35.6 | interesting since and that's in part because we haven't had a governor as interesting |
| 1:39.8 | and complicated as Donald Schwarzenegger. So nostalgia here, Joe, but I think also the timing of this, |
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