Chuck Todd
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I know a little bit of your origin story, but I don't know if all my all my listeners do.
How did you get into the military?
Why did you?
And this is what you're doing now.
What's an alternative path that you thought you'd be doing 20 years ago?
You were your third generation.
I am.
What kind of scar did Vietnam leave for your father?
Because Vietnam scarred my father and he didn't serve.
And I'll tell you the story in a minute, but what kind of scar did that leave?
Yeah.
Look, my dad's best friend, he had a sort of a
The last few years of his childhood were kind of a mess with his father.
And in particular, his mother and his best friend, who's about a year or two older, dies in training in Pensacola after being drafted.
And it just it made him obsessed with not going.
And it made him obsessive.
And in fact, he ended up he will say that the reason he became a Republican is
is he blamed Johnson for killing his best friend.
That's how he viewed it.
He viewed it very personally.