John Tower
Former United States SenatorWikipedia
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Oct 13, 2026
Bob RowlingGUEST
And the Air Force...
Bob RowlingGUEST
John Tower was the senator at the time, and he gave, he gave me an appointment to, to the Academy, and that's why I went to the Academy, 'cause it was, it was, like, the Academy or, like I said, Vietnam.
KyleHOST
Mm-hmm.
TomHOST
Yeah.
Ross RamseyGUEST
Right.
Jim HensonHOST
Right? And, you know, we, you, you mentioned Clements in '78, and there was a long time between John Tower in '61 and Bill Clements in 1978 in terms of that shift, and I think the comparison is a little deceptive for the reasons you've just laid out-
Ross RamseyGUEST
Mm-hmm
Jim HensonHOST
...
Jim HensonHOST
Right.
Ross RamseyGUEST
Right.
Jim HensonHOST
And so it's, it's so tempting to wanna tell people who are saying, "Okay, that must mean Texas is turning blue," to use the example of saying, yeah, like there was almost, there's a decade and a half between John Tower and Bill Clements.
Ross RamseyGUEST
Right.
speaker_1HOST
Oh, I see.
speaker_2HOST
But in 1991, another ASA flight crashed in Georgia under very similar circumstances, killing everyone on board, including former US Senator John Tower.
speaker_2HOST
So the NTSB knows exactly what they're looking for this time.
speaker_1HOST
So they recover the broken blade from the Burwell field, take it back to their lab in Washington, and put it under a scanning electron microscope.
Michael ShureGUEST
He says this kind of crap all the time.
Mark ThompsonHOST
But Mike Johnson, when you speak about the speaker, he would still be the speaker until what date, Michael? In other words, if the Democrats win the House, the speakership doesn't immediately transfer.
Michael ShureGUEST
No, it would be the Monday after New Year.
Michael ShureGUEST
The first is when they swear in the new people.
Michael ShureGUEST
I mean, my point is
Mark ThompsonHOST
could he refuse to – this is kind of – I'm segueing to another question.
Mark ThompsonHOST
Could Johnson – Sort of in the claiming the cloud of controversy around the election, the fact that these results necessarily don't add up, that because of the questions, I'm not going to seat any of these people who've won these elections, these candidates who have now prevailed until we get to the bottom of this, you know, whatever, blah, blah, blah.
Mark ThompsonHOST
Could that happen?
John PodhoretzHOST
Texas moved to the right, right? It was a Democratic state.
John PodhoretzHOST
Like, the first Republican senator in Texas was John Tower.
John PodhoretzHOST
Phil Graham, who became-- was a Democrat who became a Republican and then became a senator.
John PodhoretzHOST
It was not a Republican state.
Jim HensonHOST
Sure
Josh BlankHOST
... who work in Austin, but that's also the other piece to this which is, you know, and this goes, I mean, you'd mentioned, you know, John Tower moment here in a sense.
Josh BlankHOST
Like, and there is something to this which is, you know, we talk about this from time to time, but, like, you know, the, the extent that Taylor's growing is not because downtown Taylor is cool.
Josh BlankHOST
And I'm not saying downtown Taylor's not bad, right? There's some good stuff there.