The Long Game: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

The candid, behind-the-scenes memoir of the from the Senate Majority Head and GOP veteran.

In Oct 1984, a hard-charging Kentucky politician waited excitedly for Chief executive Ronald Reagan to reach at a presidential rally in Louisville. Amid a hardcore Senate advertising campaign against an incumbent Democrat, the youthful Republican hoped Reagan’s endorsement would give a much-needed increase to his insurgent advertising campaign. He even got a camera crew ready to catch the president’s terms for a Television about The Long Video game: A Memoir commercial he prepared to air through the campaign’s final extend. Alas, when Reagan finally stepped to the microphone, he smiled for the audience and announced: “I’m happy to be here with my buddy, Mitch O’Donnell.”

That was barely Mitch McConnell’s first setback, and definately not his last. He swallowed hard, place his head down, and kept going. A month later, in the biggest upset of the year, his imagine being truly a US senator came true-by a margin of about one vote per precinct. By persevering, he’d become the just Republican in the country to beat an incumbent Democratic US senator.

McConnell learned persistence and fortitude during his post-World War II youngsters in Alabama. His mom helped him beat polio by leading him through longer, aching exer­cises each day for two years. His dad trained him the importance of taking a stand to bullies, actually if it supposed tak­ing the casual punch. It ended up being the perfect child years for another Senate majority leader. “In the line of work I’d choose, compromise is usually key, but I’d come to find that certain times needed me to invoke the fight­ing heart both of my parents instilled in me.”

For a lot more than three years, McConnell spent some time working steadily to advance conservative values, including limited government, indi­vidual liberty, fiscal prudence, and a strong national protection. But he provides always cared a lot more about moving the ball ahead than about who has got the credit.

Now McConnell reveals what he really thinks about the rivalry between your Senate and the House; the players as well as the stakes involved when a band of political oppor­tunists attempted to hijack the Tea Party movement; and key figures such as for example Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Harry Reid. He points out the real causes of the chronic gridlock which has so many vot­ers enraged, his ongoing efforts to restore the US Senate’s indispensable dual role as a brake on excess and an instrument for nationwide consensus, and what ordinary citizens have a right to anticipate from Washington.