MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports December 6, 2021 17:14:00
He believed that we were partisan democrats and partisan republicans, but first we were americans and that's what he believed. he wasn't going to let things stall out because they didn't like dashell or mitchell. i was the same. i worked with wendell thorpe, my job was to keep the thing going and say, look, we're not into suspicion and ugliness and revenge, who to diddle who or how to get to the dems. he was a hell of a partisan, tom should know that, but the joy of having ten years of my life as his assistant was one of the great pleasures of my existence,
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