Senator Joe Manchin
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I'm just talking and reading the book and I crossed my legs.
They said, stop, cross your legs.
I said, what?
They said, we heard you cross your legs.
I said, my God, I'm in trouble.
No, no.
I got up to life.
Oh.
And what happened, I was right next to it.
Let me tell you what happened.
1959, never forget it.
The coal mines got automated in West Virginia.
I lived in a little coal mining community, 400 people, and there was three of the largest coal mines you've ever seen.
And everybody worked in the coal mines, okay?
And all of a sudden, I come home one day, and my dad had a little furniture store, and my grandfather had a grocery store, and there was all these guys sitting on the curb.
They got laid off because it got automated.
They lost their job.
Pat Keener was my scout leader, the best of the best of the best.
If you have a good scout leader, you're going to make it.
If you don't,