This is a true story. The day after Reagan won, I was walking into the courthouse when someone said that they'd bet Reagan would appoint me U.S. attorney.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I ran for attorney general to be attorney general.
I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.
When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won.
We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.
With Ronald Reagan in the White House, somebody had to look out for those who were not so fortunate. That's where I came in.
And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
I have a record as attorney general that is separate from my personal beliefs.
I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn't look at his watch, and he didn't allow his campaign aides to cut it off.
I'm an appointee of President Obama.