Thats when i first started getting bit from the bug i didnt come from a terribly political family or anything like that. Do you know who captain shreeve was . He was a river boat captain, and he broke a logjam on the red river. Thats my high school. In louisiana . In shreveport, louisiana. The captain shreve gators. Is it louisiana or louisiana . It depends on what part of the state, kind of like missouri or missoura. I say louisiana. Everybody thinks their state is a little different from the others, but louisiana really is different. And politics is part of the culture. Less so now, but weve just always had such colorful characters, that it was, you know, there was college football, high school football, and louisiana politics. So it is easy to get bit by that bug in louisiana, or probably easier than in a lot of other states. Who is the first politician you ever met . I think i actually shook hands with spiro agnew in high school once. But the first politician i knew was bennett joh
In politics in high school. I got kind of bit by the bug. In rked my First Campaign 1972. Thats when i first started getting bit from the bug i didnt come from a terribly political family or anything like that. Do you know who captain shreeve was . He was a river boat captain, and he broke a logjam on the red river. Thats my high school. In louisiana . 4 bl are are are in shreveport, louisiana. The captain shreve gators. Is it louisiana or louisiana . It depends on what part of the state, kind of like missouri or missoura. I say louisiana. Everybody thinks their state is a little different from the others, but louisiana really is different. And politics is part of the kl tour. Less so now, but weve just always had such colorful characters, that it was, you there was college football, high school football, and louisiana politics. So it is easy to get bit by that bug in louisiana, or probably easier than in a lot of other states. Who is the first politician ou ever met . I think i actual
I want to read that and then ask you again, when did charlie cook become charlie cook . The greeks had oracle at delphi. Washington has charlie cook. Please tell us how many seats we will pick up . When did you become known that, well, if charlie says it, it is ok. I started my newsletter in 1984. I had a half dozen jobs out of college. I had no idea where i was going with it. But when i looked back, every single job was good preparation for, you know, doing what im doing now, as editor of the newsletter. It is almost as if it were very carefully planned. Tell us what those jobs were. Well, while i was in college, the first paid job i ever had in politics was as an elevator operator in the u. S. Senate, the second semester of my freshman year in college, which is basically giving tourists, you know, where they are asking for directions and stuff. Then two years as an intern in senator johnsons office, and then i interned for a year at Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee. Then when