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Mike Johnson: “I was the first person in my family to go to college.”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson Joins Steve Scalise and August Pfluger on the Right to the Point Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 01:05

Speaker, tell us a little bit about just growing up, getting to the point where you became speaker of the House. I think everybody would love to know. Okay. The two minute version is I was the first person in my family to go to college. My dad was a disabled firefighter. He got blown up in the line of duty when I was 12 years old and got burned at 80% of his body third degree burns. (01:05–01:08)

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