The Tom Cotton You Don't Know

Intelligence Matters

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Politics, News, Government

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🗓️ 23 January 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Republican U.S. Senator and Army veteran Tom Cotton is often described as a hawkish conservative for taking a hardline stance on issues like immigration and the Iran nuclear deal. In this interview, Michael Morell steps away from policy and gets a sense of the Arkansas senator's character, political philosophy and driving influences. Cotton talks about working as his father's farm hand and learning about his dad's service in Vietnam. He also discusses his time studying political science and political philosophy at Harvard, and how 9/11 "changed everything," setting him on the course towards military service and then, the U.S. Senate.

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0:30.8	I would say at Harvard, I began to fill in more of the kind of the historical foundation
0:37.6	for what's now known as modern American conservatism, in some ways known as classical liberalism.
0:45.6	The principles are timeless and eternal.
0:48.4	I mean, to be a conservative day, it means to be a champion of individual freedom and
0:52.8	the human spirit.
0:54.4	How those principles to play out in policies can change, though, because circumstances
0:58.9	change.
1:00.6	Why are you a conservative at the end of the day?
1:06.1	I'm a conservative because I do believe in the freedom and dignity of the individual.
1:10.4	It's not just a philosophical basis, it's a biblical basis.
1:14.0	And I think, as one of my professors once said, these ideas work because they are true.
1:21.5	They're not true because they work.
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