Sam Nunn
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Oct 7, 2026
Ron BrownsteinPANELIST
That's the key point.
Ron BrownsteinPANELIST
Chuck Robb, Sam Nunn, Dick Gephardt at that point.
Ron BrownsteinPANELIST
And basically trying to promote the more centrist elements of the party, or at least the parts who believe that you have to appeal as broadly as possible.
Ron BrownsteinPANELIST
I think there is going to be a tremendous desire among Democrats to turn the page.
Bob BradfordGUEST
All of those drove Congress to determine they needed to act.
Bob BradfordGUEST
And really the key drivers to this were Senator Sam Nunn and Senator Barry Goldwater were the key drivers in the Senate with Don Nichols in the House.
Bob BradfordGUEST
There were lots of resistors along the way in Congress.
Bob BradfordGUEST
But most of the resistance came from the Pentagon.
Ron GranieriHOST
Ideally, you create structures that make it difficult for a bad leader to mess them up.
Ron GranieriHOST
But sometimes you need an especially good leader to bring things forward.
Ron GranieriHOST
And so, Bob, going back to the issue of how the law was passed, right, the role of Goldwater and Nunn in particular in making this work in Congress.
Ron GranieriHOST
You know, Goldwater-Nichols didn't happen just because the ideas behind it were so good, even if the ideas were good, right? It took somebody to convince— folks to vote against their interest to do it,
Quinn HillyerGUEST
He voted with the left wing again and again and again and again.
Quinn HillyerGUEST
I wish he were a moderate like old time Southern Democrats, like Sam Nunn of Georgia, who voted with the liberals 55% of the time, conservatives 45% of the time.
Quinn HillyerGUEST
He wasn't.
Quinn HillyerGUEST
He was a 90% liberal.
Charlie RoseHOST
Uh, but I just think...
Charlie RoseHOST
I mean, what concerns me, and, and Senator Nunn made this point over the weekend, is that a, a resumption, you know, of hostility with the Soviet Union if they now become, or Russia becomes captive of anti-American forces.
Stephen CohenGUEST
Today-
Charlie RoseHOST
You know, and the d- and the demise of the reform democratic movement over there-
Charlie RoseHOST
You're supporting that.
Ted TurnerGUEST
Sam Nunn and I.
Charlie RoseHOST
What's that about?
Ted TurnerGUEST
That's to try and, uh, that, that's an organization that, uh, an NGO that was designed to kinda help and prod governments along and fill in where governments, uh, can't or won't do the job to try and make the world safer from weapons of mass destruction than they currently are.
TylerHOST
the bomb.net
CharlieHOST
yeah keeping it real but i don't know probably like here's five suggestions how to make your bombs have bigger booms Former Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia has been worried about the introduction of AI.
CharlieHOST
So people have, like I said, kind of noticing, trying to do things about it.
CharlieHOST
But at this point, like you said, it's too late.
BradHOST
He says he believes the explosion was intentional, but he can't personally support the idea it was Clayton.
BradHOST
That same month, committee chairman Sam Nunn announces that Sandia National Laboratories, the Department of Energy's own weapons research lab out of New Mexico, has agreed to independently review the Navy's technical case.
BradHOST
The House holds its own hearings in December, pulling in the FBI profilers, Milligan, Maselli, Truitt, and the Armed Forces Medical Examiner.
BradHOST
In March of 1990, the House Armed Services Committee publishes a report bluntly titled USS Iowa Tragedy, an Investigative Failure.
Patricia MurphyHOST
And it makes a big difference.
Patricia MurphyHOST
I used to work for Sam Nunn, who was from Perry.
Patricia MurphyHOST
And if somebody called from Perry, if someone mentioned they were from Perry, you're like, I'm sorry, let me stop what I'm doing.
Patricia MurphyHOST
You are from Perry.
Major GarrettHOST
Gentlemen, thank you very much.
Major GarrettHOST
Still to come, Democrats hold both Senate seats in Georgia but haven't elected a governor since 1998.
Major GarrettHOST
I'll be joined by Keisha Lance Bottoms here on the set who's trying to change that.
Major GarrettHOST
Plus, if you watch football this weekend, college or pro, you came across taxpayer-funded ads for President Trump.
Major GarrettHOST
We're The Takeout.
Major GarrettHOST
Welcome to the Conversation Corner and our state-by-state series here on The Takeout.
Major GarrettHOST
Fun fact, Democrats in Georgia have not won a Senate seat and a governor's election in the same cycle since 1990.
Major GarrettHOST
That was Zell Miller as governor, Sam Nunn as senator.
Egberto WilliesHOST
Georgia, very democratic.
Egberto WilliesHOST
I remember when guys like Sam Nunn were the senators out of Georgia.
Egberto WilliesHOST
These were Lloyd Benson out of Texas, okay? We were very democratic, okay? And then the change came.
Egberto WilliesHOST
We got the thing called the Reagan Democrats.
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