He asked me to leave my practice, come to Baton Rouge, and I liked it. I was his legal counsel, and I stayed. And then I ran for office and got elected, and I ran for the Senate three times. Took me three times to get here. And I thought they left me for dead for a few times. Politically, I switched parties because the Democrat, I couldn't. I just couldn't be a Democrat anymore. (31:33–31:38)
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Asserts that John Neely Kennedy ran for the U.S. Senate three times before being elected.
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