Candace Owens
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He's absolutely floored.
at Benedictine University when Charlie speaks, he immediately knew that he was sort of looking at a future president.
This is an article, I think it was done in the Atlantic back in, it doesn't matter what year.
Anyways, it reads in the Atlantic, Montgomery was at Benedictine University in Western Chicago suburb of Lyle, Illinois for the college's youth government day in May of 2012.
The slate of speakers put the kids together
to sleep, he told the National Journal.
But when Kirk took the floor, the energy in the room completely changed.
The kids weren't sleeping anymore and their attention was wrapped on Kirk.
Inspired, Montgomery went up to him after his speech and told him, as only a man 50 years senior can say, that he needed to delay college to pursue a higher calling.
Quote, "'I don't know you,' Montgomery recalled saying, "'but you need to start an organization "'to reach out to young people with your message.'"
A month after Montgomery met Kirk, the duo launched Turning Point USA.
I want you to hold on to that phrase, I don't know you, but.
Again, that's the same story that I was told.
So I was a bit surprised to learn that there may be a larger story here.
Now, Bill Montgomery was Air Force.
He was in the Air Force Reserves.
Bill Montgomery also happened to be from Lincoln, Nebraska, getting into one of those Egyptian plane stops.
A lot of these people are tied to Lincoln, Nebraska that are in this story.
Saving that for another day.
Now, not much is known about what specifically Bill Montgomery did during his time in the military, but we do know that he moved to the Chicago area thereafter.