I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.
I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back.
I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to deploy when they finally get there.
One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.
It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.
It's a hard job to become president.
There are just some things about being president that are difficult.
We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.
That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.