Pete Buttigieg
speaker
1,193 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 10 May
Pete Buttigieg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that was where I do think it helped to have a president who spent as much time as he did in the Senate because it really felt like the infrastructure bill was dead.
We forget this now because it happened and it's kind of hard to imagine it was any other way, but...
It was proclaimed dead many, many times in that summer of 2021 before it got done.
So these moments of snatching victory from the jaws of defeat
You know, the word gatekeeper gets used a lot for White House staff.
I don't think that's unfair.
I would also say, though, that I don't say that's new.
You know, the gatekeeper is often the kind of other word you use for a chief of staff.
You could feel that he was growing older.
I mean, I think we all saw that.
I think my experience, and obviously I wasn't at the White House every day.
Most of the time I was out in the field doing transportation work.
But what I would see if I was at an event was the same as what you'd see watching TV.
I think the debate was a real turning point.
Which wasn't good.
Yeah, I mean, the debate was a turning point, right?
Where you just saw, I think everybody saw what everybody saw.
On the other hand, you know, when we were handling... How did something like that happen?
Yeah, I think the short answer is there's not really a they that makes that decision, right?
People give advice, but there's a he.
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