Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. I am grateful today to be joined by Vice President Mike Pence and his daughter Charlotte Pence to talk about the book they wrote together called Go Home for Dinner. My dad and I, this book is like really

important to me because my dad and I had a very close relationship and this

interview means a lot to me because I lost my dad to cancer last year.

And he was also someone who believed that it was very important to go home for dinner.

And I wanted to share a little story about that because sometimes you don't realize when you're a little

kid that this is happening, you know, you don't always know what the behind the scenes of your parents

is, but when I was older I worked with my dad. I had the blessing of being able to work with him for many years and one of the guys that he worked with had worked with him when we lived in Illinois and was one of his vice presidents at the time.

And so my dad, we lived in Illinois

in the suburbs of Chicago and my dad had to every week

go to a foundry in Kiacuk, Iowa.

And when I was, so I, you know, that was when I was a kid.

And then when I was in my 20s and 30s,

I was working with one of the guys that worked with him in Iowa,

and he told me this story, he said,

you know, your dad was such a bore and it was meant to be a huge

insult to me and I could tell we were on a business trip and he said we used to have to go

to Iowa and we would go out every night and your dad would always go home.

He would make that five hour drive home because he always said it was more important to be home

than it was to be out with the guys bonding with the team and it was

really important to us that he be bonding with the team and it was like this

moment where I thought that was my dad it was so important for him to be with us that he would

definitely take that five hour drive at night to make sure that in the morning

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