Other than those who've been elected President, I'm not sure anyone in his generation has had a more remarkable political career than Haley Barbour. Running Mississippi for Nixon while he was still in college...ED of the MS GOP at a critical building phase in the 70s...battling a Senate Giant in his unsuccessful first race in '82...running the Reagan White House's political operation...chairing the RNC during the '94 GOP wave...2-term Governor...and starting what has become one of the most successful lobbying government affairs firms in the country. Great conversation hearing about Haley Barbour's rise from small town Mississippi to the highest corridors of political power.
IN THIS EPISODE
How Haley Barbour got into politics “totally by fluke”…
Running Mississippi for Nixon in ’68…
What made a young Haley Barbour gravitate to the Republican Party…
The rise of Thad Cochran and Trent Lott…
Haley Barbour’s time in the early 70s as executive director of the Mississippi Republican Party…
The story of Haley Barbour’s lone political loss in the 1982 Senate race against longtime Dem incumbent John Stennis…
Haley Barbour’s rules for candidates and campaign managers…
Haley Barbour’s time running the political operation in the Reagan White House…
Haley Barbour tells his favorite Jim Baker story…
The connection between Haley Barbour and serial killer John Wayne Gacy…
Why was Barbara Bush so angry at Haley Barbour in the ’88 campaign?
Why Haley Barbour turned down working out of the White House?
The one time Ronald Reagan overruled Haley Barbour?
The early days of the rise of Newt Gingrich…
Haley Barbour beats two future US Senators to take over the Republican National Committee in 1993…
Haley Barbour talks the GOP wave of 1994…
Haley Barbour talks his 2003 Governor’s campaign ousting a Democratic incumbent…
How he overcame the “lobbyist” label in the Governor’s race…
Getting close to jumping in the 2012 presidential race…
How Haley Barbour started one of DC’s premier lobbying firms…
Haley Barbour rules for being an effective lobbyist…
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