On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.
I was a military brat; we moved all around.
I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.
I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.
I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines.
The Army was my bread and butter.
I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.
I've closed factories in Mexico and brought those jobs back to the United States. I've closed factories in Canada and brought those jobs back to the United States.
I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.