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I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

I was a Mitt Romney Republican because he was pro-business.

I'm a former governor, and so I was the chief executive, and when the legislature wasn't in session, I was running the state.

Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

I was the governor that drew a tough, tough straw. I was governor during the worst recession since the 1930s, and I had to cut $5 billion from the state budget.

I intensely covered Bush when he was Governor of Texas.

The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.