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CSPAN2 After Words September 20, 2015

Plymouth, minnesota. Tell us what happened. Guest what happened as i was wearing the first pair of pants ever to be worn to elementary by a girl. It was a Public School in minnesota gets to be 10 below zero and i wore a multicolored flower bell bottom pants. I was so proud of these pants and sure enough i was called in to mrs. Claytons office, the principal who had this enormous beehive haircut and still remember to this day. Im sitting there trembling as she says you can wear your trousers in your culotte enter pantaloons at home, but it he can high school you wear dresses. I literally got a permission slip, walked home to my house to the woods somehow, changed into address and i shed a few tears. Ill say that much. I use that example of why i wrote the book to show off the road all changing culture that i ended up being able to wear pan, being able to be the girl that could respond to the mrs. Quaid is that the world. At that moment i did wish he said. The one tangent to the story is from the book comes out i got a call and they said i mike r. Now. He says i did my quaid said about my mom. I said was true. She did take me out of the school. And what he said about her hair with a beehive. I sent a check of the internet, she has a beehive. I have a lot of respect and all of a sudden you hear this voice saying this is al. It is now franken, my colleague. That is how the book started. Host one of the things i took from the story is that it is a process to learn how to stand up for yourself in a situation and it takes some time especially for girls to figure out how to do that. Guest its not about girls. Its people from regular backgrounds growing up in a middleclass neighborhood trying to get people to run for something or get involved in the political process. For me, my teachers were credible mentors back then. She was in that nice that other teachers, the one that caught me off the front of the doors and got stuck on that one of first grade teacher with a bright red hair who would literally stand in the back of the class and yell speak louder. I cant hear you when i gave presentations. She would rather my report card, speak louder. She would put a space between each letter. Those are people that influence my life and made it easier as they went ahead. Every step of the way from then to the last two years for a link to a show with john mccain and all those male leaders. John did start the meeting then they would look over at the end job but said no. Senator klobuchar is the democratic lead him astray. Your dresser next. Those people have not been on women, the people of help to me and others along the way i thought about what the book is about. Host in about the senator next door you read a lot about your family am your daddy was a long time about that columnist for the tribune and worked for the associated press. In the year you were born, he played an Important Role in the president ial election. Tell us about that. Guest my dad was the one that called the election and this is a situation where illinois, california and minnesota were the last three state valve. It is down to the wire. California ended up going to nixon. So theres my dad, a young reporter said this is what happened. I got this from interview in may god and then verify memories. My dad told george moses, his boss. My dad told george moses he had little doubt the region would go for kennedy. If you grow up on minnesotas iron range in the 20th century he later said he knew they had as many bars as churches and second that the prospects of northeastern minnesota in 1960 were as bright as the Temperance Movement chances in west duluth. He emphatically told moses and northeastern minnesota a workingclass called kennedy would most likely pick up two thirds of the vote en masse when the state and kennedy won minnesotas 11 electoral votes, that would put them over the top. After hearing to reporters, moses placed a call to the ap general desk in new york sam blackmon. We are going to elect kennedy told blackmon. Violence followed. Ive got two words for you guys he said. Soap was my dad would go to edwards let that be our in his early 30s about the chance to read the National Story that declared john f. Kennedy the victor and thus the next president. A sweaty fingers flew across his old underwood typewriter hammering the keys fiercely with no time to follow the usual protocol of three carbon copies underneath. To beat the competitor United Press International to the punch, my dad would hand a page to moses containing a single paragraph at a time. Moses to check the copy for typos and run it to the teletype operator paragraph by paragraph that a carbon to review and each page including a small piece of the story my dad kept yelling to the operator, bob, how did the last paragraph and . After a night of little sleep, bob would yell back with me. , jim. With a period. He sent out across the wires at 12 33 p. M. Eastern time the next day appeared in newspapers across the country as james reston of the New York Times six lane the next day the call in and was fundamental. At 12 33, senator kennedy clenched minnesota in the election. 13 minutes later mr. Nixon made a formal compassion. After nixon conceded, my dad celebrated his groundbreaking story with moses and johnson. Maverick doing the story. I almost died twice and barely missed a hernia at the party was briefed. My dad went to lunch at a nearby swedish cafe to return to the office. He was given his next assignment three pigs stuck in a mud pit airfare about minnesota. He died in a murder story. That was the year i borne. A year of Endless Possibilities of new houses and cars and refrigerators. You hear when a kid from of minutes out of it rather started calling the president ial election. They took a risk and elected a new vigorous leader in catholic thought. It was a good year to be born in. They did and that getting it right. Did i spell retired as of the old writings to help confirm that. It was time to go back and remember those times. Host when you were little girls and your dad was covering politics, sports and other things, do you think he thought tucker would be a u. S. Citizen . Guest grossmont are and not as much, but my dad had ambitions for me. He wanted me to be a judge that he also encouraged me inspired me and we would go on this crazy trips together that were long and he taught me how to persevere. Would you go 100 miles in a day in your dad that i think we can do 20 more, that is a lesson in perseverance. Host the story about paris on bike rides are terrifying. He read about wearing no helmet, going 145 miles. At one point i got off my bike, laid it on the highway shoulder and pretended i had fallen. He did not buy that. Just dont know. Part of this was he was writing about the stories for the newspaper. We had a map showing progress but the second part was really a gift from him in my mind for us to get to know each other again, a teenager who didnt want have long dinners at their dad in talks or how he was doing and what was happening with his love life. This is a much better way and it was my dads idea. Host your parents got divorced because of your father struggle with alcoholism which you write about. We fully aware of what he was dealing with . Guest when i was really young he was not. Around the time i was born he wasnt drinking that much but it got worse and worse. Part of it was the life of the reporter. People would go to drinks with cops, football coaches and covering vikings at the time. The other part was his own background. There were 15 feet underground in my grandpa would go all the time and drink my dad grew up seeing now. He clearly was an alcoholic and started to drink more and more and when i was growing up i remember being in a car with him when he went off the road after a Football Game no one was hurt but its clearly because he was drinking and we got home and he cried and told me he wouldnt do it again. Then he had been drinking related arrests. Back in the 70s they didnt do much about it. He got the news, it they didnt do much about it. Finally before my wedding in 1993, he got a third dwi for driving related incident with alcohol and this time the laws had changed and i was treated very seriously. I went in with him and his lawyer and the counselor and talk to the judge and we went through everything that that it happened in our lives. He said full text drinking for a while, then he went back to it. He went to treatment and that is when he found redemption. He wrote about how his religion and a get through the time. Because it speaks about it all the time and his whole life has been turned around. Hes happily married for the third time and so i was able to see not only the difficulty is and badness of alcoholism, but also my dad recovering that redemption. Host he is open about it, but was a hard to write about it in your book . Guest my dad has written a lot about it before so thats made it different. For me personally yes. Obviously i showed it to him ahead of time because i wanted to make sure he was okay with it. It is a hard thing because it to sit back and think about the effect of how he perjured it to the world. But it meant to me and my mom and sister. Host another family crisis helped propel you into politics into a political career. Tell us what happened. Host my daughter was very sick when she was born. She couldnt swallow. They came in and got us in the middle of the night and that she is very sick you cant swallow. They thought there was a tumor she mightve had cerebral palsy. They couldnt figure out what was wrong. She was in intensive care with tubes and Everything Else back then they had a really got kicked out of the hospital in 24 hours even if the baby was in intensive care. I had no sleep at all. They were giving me the stuff on breastfeeding and i got out and it was really a difficult thing. When she started to get better come it took about a year and half, but somewhere in the middle of their she was still fed by tubes for a year and a half. I went to the legislature and worked is either good or legislature and talk about things wikipedia is things wikipedia has amazed and embarrassed pretty much all male legislators. We got one of the first laws guaranteeing mothers a 48 hour hospital days. They ended up taking it on the national level. I also learned how to get something done. Ended up at the Conference Committee. People couldnt say they were against it, but some lobbyists are trying to delay at so i brought six pregnant women to the Conference Committee who are friends of mine and they outnumber the lobby is two to one. The legislator when should this take effect, the pregnant moms raise their hand and said now and it didnt even wait until august 1st. It went to effect the day the governor signed it. Host tell us how your daughter is doing now. Guess who shes doing much better. Shes a great kid. She was sick a lot growing up because she was so small. But she kind of came out of that with a lot of help from swallowing air piston doctors and is just a unique condition that didnt lead to any other major disability. Shes a lot of fun and she also didnt mind having the story told. I dont also wouldve been her choice, but shes a great kid. Host if there is a thread that goes through your new book, it is summed up by a writer you quote in the book. Obstacles in the past are not obstacles. They are the past. What does that mean to you . Guest to me than if everyone has things they confront. The key is what you do with them and how do you move on and do you try to at least gain some strength from what happens to you and then try to help other people. That is the key that a lot of people who become Public Servants and i try to make a case in the book that not everyone is a cartoon character duking it out every day on tv, but a lot of people go into it for the right reasons and has to do with things that happen in their lives that either an elected office or back at the time. That is a lot of what i view my job and i view these things that have happened to me and i dont mean none of them pollyanna way, that they were gifts in that they made me understand how other people thought, how do parents of kids with permanent disabilities felt and how difficult that is what its like to have an alcoholic in the family and how that led to work on drug courts are some of the treatment nospaceoff right now proposed in the senate. Host minnesota house of politicians from Hubert Humphrey to Jesse Ventura, and of course Walter Mondale has played a role in your career. How did you need him . Guest Walter Mondale is someone everyone still loves in minnesota. I first got involved working with him when i was in college and applied for an internship. I ended up getting the job. It was so glamorous. I showed my first in executive office building. I show up in my assignment ready to read it a policy piece was to do the furniture inventory of every piece to crawl under the desk, with the numbers down. It took three weeks and as i like to tell kids that didnt turn to me, that was my first government job in washington and this is my second promise to take them seriously. Host Walter Mondale was someone who knew for years. What you take from his career by what he had ever taught you are told you by example. Guest the stability dignity he has is something missing in todays politics and i tried my best to crack is that in how he would treat people. When i was working with him later at the law firm, the republicans do with colin to talk about issues because he viewed his job in that way and he didnt use a lot of heated rhetoric. Some people made fun of him for being too norwegian. He was a lot of fun when he wasnt on tv but there was some value to that and it helped them get done. Host when you are more politically a tip yourself you addressing the Democratic National convention in 2004 and he gave you advice. I wonder if you tell the story. Guest the background is an elected county attorney and john kerry is running for president. My first major involvement been a speaker. The first time with terry came to minnesota and introduced and i made the rookie mistake at this big rally. I said i give to you it is up there with me, the next president of the united states, john kerry. The crowd goes wild. So obviously think im done. He comes over and says i know you arent done yet, so why did you finish up. Posted at such a strong grip on the microphone. Guest he later told me it was being nice but i knew i couldnt get away from you. Later they have me speak at the boston convention. I had gotten the speech together. You cant say certain things. They had all these rules. I had a tiny joke, wasnt that funny language and with the words of someone famous in texas. She said what america wants is something as big as this promise. They told me i could use it. The morning of the speech, Walter Mondale came to me. Memorized your speech. I said i should be fine. Note that is he said. Remember that time at the convention when carter said hubert or ratio hornblower . Alastair teleprompter screwup he said. Dont trust it. Memorize the speech. This advice struck me as a little out of date. I told him i would memorize my speech and i did. Later he turned up at the appointed hour and found myself backstage with patrick leahy, Chuck Schumer and charlie ringo. Dont ask me why the conventions organizers could meet together with highpowered congressional crowd but they did. The Convention Hall was fairly full. Senator leahy was just before me. He started into his speech but half a minute he stopped and looked around. Teleprompter had gone dark. He made a joke suggesting the malfunction was tied to a wellpublicized fight he recently had with Vice President dick cheney. Eventually someone brought out a copy of senator leahys remarks. Omar i stood waiting at the corner of the stage i could see Walter Mondale. He was sitting right in the front row. I made eye contact and ive never seen a more pointed i told you so not in my life. I nodded back. I stepped up to the podium. Someone gave me a printed copy and at some point the telecom or cannot the life that i rarely let data i never looked at the printed copy. Thanks to Walter Mondale had memorized my speech and i was only at the crowd. I had some fun in the speech went great. I use the bush line. You are elected from minnesota. Is your gender and asset or liability . Weve had two strong women and the majority leader in the 80s and before that in the 70s the secretary of state had run and they both lost. People would literally ask the newspaper editor to save you think a woman can win. But they reference to kay bailey hutchison, i said well, a woman one in texas. I think a woman can win. So i finally ended up i didnt emphasize gender that much because of the issue in the other two women and i would just say some of the guys to speak to these big rooms of workers and someone would ask that question and last time i checked cap the voters were men. If i was just running as a woman i wouldnt win. I said so im running as a prosecutor of what i want to do for the state of minnesota. At the end of the election when i won, one of the newspaper reporters who writes for the review noted i had emphasize gender. It didnt mean i didnt have a lot of women support. I had a group called amy angels that meant a lot to me. We did do a lot in terms of Gathering Women support. Host we have a Record Number of women serving in the u. S. Senate right now but its only 20. Fewer than 50 women elected in our country. For the 20 women now in the senate, do you think a women senators tend to behave differently than the male senators . Guest i do. Is a recent study that showed the Womens Centers tend to sponsorship is both more and get things done more and they are more bipartisan. Its not just anecdotal. As seen time and time again whether Susan Collins and they shut down and we put together 14 and whether it was debbie stab at no, barbara mikulski, patty murray. Youve seen Barbara Boxer working with Mitch Mcconnell last month to get a transportation bill done added the u. S. Senate. A lot of times you

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