ICYMI: Pete Buttigieg on Biden, bridges, and being a dad
The transportation secretary brings his broad experience and deep insights to some of today's biggest challenges
We spoke yesterday with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and as you might expect from one of the Democratic Party’s best communicators, he had some wisdom to impart on everything from what it’s actually like to work with the president (and how the rest of us can think productively about the debate around the question of Biden’s age), to his belief in playing the long game against rising fascism by addressing people’s basic material needs, to the changing nature of fatherhood and what it means to be a man in the 21st century, raising children who may be looking ahead to the 22nd.
I think everybody has a relationship with the president. Not just somebody like me who works with him, but any American has a relationship with the president. And a lot of that's kind of public and official, but on some level, it's personal too. And the president is a human being. And one thing about human beings is every year they get a year older. And we also have personal relationships with people in our lives who are aging. I belong to that sandwich generation, right?
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