Tom Cole: “He said, will you take a year out of academic life and come…”

“And like $100 a week or something like that. Well, yeah, I'll do that. And he won. And I got a call from the state party chairman going into the 1980 campaign and He said, will you take a year out of academic life and come and be the executive director of the state party? And I thought it paid a lot better than being a graduate student. And I thought, well, that's fun. And Don Nichols was running for the Senate.” (06:53–07:00)

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