a, how do you do that? life in and in such a long successful political career? and b, how does that pay back to you in the world on a day like this? in what we know will be the apex of your career, a career which you have earned over the lifetime the amount of personal goodwill and affection that nobody else can brag about, the amount of personal goodwill and affection, that accrues because of the way he as lived his life in politics is unparalleled? how does that go ahead paid back to him? joining us is mike cassel, a republican who made a run for joe biden s senate seat once mr. biden became vice president, even though he s a republican, a longtime friend and colleague of vice president biden. thank you so much for being with us tonight. thank you, rachel. a pleasure to be with you. as a longtime friend of the vice president. are you disappointed that he s
after that 40-year-plus career, the same bottom line for his friends and his enemies, when everybody thinking about him is that he s a good man. a, how do you do that? life in and in such a long successful political career? and b, how does that pay back to you in the world on a day like this? in what we know will be the apex of your career, a career which you have earned over the lifetime the amount of personal goodwill and affection that nobody else can brag about, the amount of personal goodwill and affection, that accrues because of the way he as lived his life in politics is unparalleled? how does that go ahead paid back to him? joining us is mike cassel, a republican who made a run for
won one term as president to succeed ronald reagan in 1988. before that, it was gerald ford, who never actually ran for vice president, but was appointed vice president after the previous vice president had to quick in a scandal. gerald ford then ascended to the presidency itself in 1974 after richard nixon s resignation, but gerald ford is a special case. he was never elected to either the number one job or the number two job in his own right. he just sort of stumbled into it. being vice president in theory, it seems like the best possible warm-up to becoming president yourself, right? it almost feels like an understudy job in a way, but it almost never works out that way anymore that the vice president next becomes the president of the united states. it hasn t for a long while. and when barack obama chose then 67-year-old senator joe biden to be his vice presidential running mate in 2008, it isn t talked a lot about now, but it was all but implicitly understood at the tim
before that, it was gerald ford, who never actually ran for vice president, but was appointed vice president after the previous vice president had to quick in a scandal. gerald ford then ascended to the presidency itself in 1974 after richard nixon s resignation, but gerald ford is a special case. he was never elected to either the number one job or the number two job in his own right. he just sort of stumbled into it. being vice president in theory, it seems like the best possible warm-up to becoming president yourself, right? it almost feels like an understudy job in a way, but it almost never works out that way anymore that the vice president next becomes the president of the united states. it hasn t for a long while. and when barack obama chose then 67-year-old senator joe biden to be his vice presidential running mate in 2008, it isn t talked a lot about now, but it was all but implicitly understood at the time that joe biden probably would not be a contender to succee
who never actually ran for vice president, but was appointed vice president after the previous vice president had to quick in a scandal. gerald ford then ascended to the presidency itself in 1974 after richard nixon s resignation, but gerald ford is a special case. he was never elected to either the number one job or the number two job in his own right. he just sort of stumbled into it. being vice president in theory, it seems like the best possible warm-up to becoming president yourself, right? it almost feels like an understudy job in a way, but it almost never works out that way anymore that the vice president next becomes the president of the united states. it hasn t for a long while. and when barack obama chose then 67-year-old senator joe biden to be his vice presidential running mate in 2008, it isn t talked a lot about now, but it was all but implicitly understood at the time that joe biden probably would not be a contender to succeed president obama as president hi