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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Mitch Daniels Pt. 1

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

WIBC

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels joins the Kendall and Casey Show to talk about what it's like being inaugurated.

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0:00.0

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0:23.4

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0:27.1

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0:30.0

The great Mitch Daniels joins us now.

0:32.1

Mr. Governor, hello.

0:34.1

Rob, good to talk to you.

0:36.1

A very special day.

0:37.2

So do you miss days like this?

0:40.0

Do you miss the pageantry of politics, or are you still like, man, I'm so glad I'm

0:45.9

done with that?

0:46.5

No, I don't miss it because I'm an attentive citizen, and days like today are important,

0:53.5

and I hope always will be to us. They mark new

0:57.5

beginnings, and there's always hope attached to that. I think a lot of people, I hope,

1:03.6

whether they agreed or disagreed with the outcome of the election, or feeling hope this morning,

1:08.7

and I hope we're given reasons to be hopeful.

1:11.9

So you obviously were part of a couple inaugurations for yourself as governor and then obviously

1:16.2

as a part of the early days of the Bush administration. I want to start with you.

1:20.1

As the person who's taking the oath, as the person who's going to be in the spotlight,

1:24.9

in this case it'll be President Trump, but it was Governor Daniels. What was on your mind in the build-up to those moments before you took the oath of

1:31.7

office? It was emotional, of course. I had never run for any political office before.

1:39.7

It had been a campaign people, I think, still remember a first time an incumbent Indiana governor had lost.

1:47.8

And so we felt a huge responsibility.

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