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Lamar Alexander

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Lamar Alexander
Lamar Alexander

Kay Blevins talks to Senator Lamar Alexander on the end to his long political career in Tennessee.

I you ... welcome back everyone in your community news today i had an opportunity to speak with a man who has had and asked her political career, and the state of tennessee.

The dinner lamar alexander is retiring next month.

Not only has alexander served as united states sen.

And 2003.

He was also the 40th in the governor and united states secretary of education.

There is no down.

He has made an impact on our state and our country look as he reflects on his time in office improvements to chattanooga ... advice for the next generation of leaders ... one unifying to get the politic and will howard baker inspired me.

This was a long time ago 1966.

I've been raised by my parents in maryland respect public life, public service, and when he came along want to buil a two-party system in tennessee i thought it was just a law school i thought i'd like like to help and help.

He did from being elected as the 45th governor of the state of tennessee, president of the university of tennessee and serving as united states sen.

Since 2003.

If time in the volunteer state will not be forgotten.

Having been around for a while gives me a chance t look back and i look at the las 40 years of tennessee in the single biggest thing is the arrival of the ... wasn't here ... brazil volkswagen jet was known the song.

Most importantly, there were the thousand autos of ... so the arrival of these on general motors in the early 1980 in the early 1984 lane highways applies to those ... plants volkswagen also that was her focus on better schools is lifted.

Our state of race, family and sen.

Alexander is proud of his state and our community.

I see a more confident state a more livable chattanooga very city that iredell for what it's done for itself or the last ... so that's what i remember about ... privilege that this is a given me.

I've had a chance to see rising lifting itself over the years.

One of the projects alexander has spent time and effort in freezing is the chickamauga line, chairman of the committee defines the trillion dollar project ... in an alley and attended area.

More jobs take a lot of heavy trucks off the road.

Aerobic cleaner transportation be cheap more people coming to chattanooga the servicing cause of what time with the presidential trend is sent where we stand right now as a community as a whole will in the middle.

In the midst of what are doing.

It doesn't look so but if you step back in.

We still produce more than 20% of ... we have the strongest military best universities are ... spec in eight months instead of the years we have a system government ... so i think were still very lucky living in ... elect more people warmly working and your country together.

Alexander's political career comes to a close next month, but they like being busy every moment of the day having limited and will know i've i've had the ... and so i'm looking at harming i turning page on the chapter ver good book, hoping the next chapter is good to bring, but i think i'll just live life the government is ... this great ... life that we have just offering this data, but nice for the nex generation ... have a sense of purpose.

I'm very inspired privilege by the chance to dissipate ... number two yourself to someone you spec volunteer as i did wit howard and do whatever they ask you to do as long as it's legal learn have a good and then have might be the school board in my view, the united states and

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