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🗓️ 17 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure and proud honor to introduce the governor of the state of Florida for another four years and my dad, Jeb Bush. |
0:18.0 | I thank Almighty God for the opportunity to be here today |
0:24.7 | that we must build a life centered on faith, friends, and family. |
0:30.2 | Government is not the answer. |
0:32.2 | It's a cold January morning on the steps of the Florida Capitol in 2003. |
0:36.7 | American flags wave against the white building |
0:39.0 | as the state's first ever two-term Republican governor, Jeb Bush, prepares to be sworn in. He stands |
0:45.3 | bundled up before the large crowd of flashing cameras, raising one hand and placing the other on a Bible. |
0:51.3 | Faith is grounded in humility, gratitude, and generosity, an acknowledgement that through |
0:57.7 | life we have been given a gift that is wholly unearned and never fully understood. In our darkest |
1:04.5 | hours, it is what sustains us. In our final darkness, it will bring us light. In the crowd is a woman named Raquel Rodriguez. |
1:13.7 | We met her in episode five this season. |
1:16.0 | She's a rookie on the governor's general counsel team, |
1:18.5 | having come on only one year before in 2002. |
1:21.8 | But her experience defending the law goes back more than two decades, |
1:25.7 | and her friendship with Governor Bush even longer. |
1:28.0 | He's a person who really believes in second chances for people, and he believes in redemption. |
1:35.5 | Consider the mathematics of tragedy. Our principles must provide solace and support for the |
1:41.4 | most vulnerable among us. This can be our legacy. |
1:46.2 | Governor Bush was more right than he knew. |
1:48.5 | Less than a year into his new term, |
1:50.5 | Bush would enter the Terry Shivo case, |
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