Bob Livingston
Bob Livingston
Robert Linlithgow "Bob" Livingston Jr.is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and a former Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana. He was Chairman of the Appropriations Committee from 1995–1999, and he was chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998, but instead retired over concerns his extramarital affair would inhibit his efforts to impeach President Bill Clinton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 April 1943
CountryUnited States of America
The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.
Education, for me, has helped me in my music.
I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places.
I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!
Then Willie Nelson hits town and comes to see us at a double concert at Mother Earth... he sees all the music, and half the people got long hair and beards and the other half are all rednecks. Then they take him over to the Armadillo and it's the same way... The energy was just... I mean, I wish I wasn't so stoned back then and would have been able to take more advantage of the situation! Because anything could have happened!
stick to our principles and set reasonable goals for ourselves.
It seems to me that all of our members have the right to digest the contents of the Judiciary report,
It was so intense! At the dance hall, people hanging out of the rafters! Everybody from Austin had come over and we were cutting a Live record. That had not been top-of-the-line mobile truck.
As a constitutional matter, I share your view that censure of the president would violate the careful balance of separation of powers and the scheme laid out by the framers (of the Constitution) to address the issue of executive misconduct,
This is quite a deal. We showed up yesterday and pulled out our guitars. We were out on the curb, standing in the street, and had a rehearsal. We couldn't even remember what was on those records.
My preference would be to get it over with this year, ... If the Judiciary Committee doesn't complete its work next week it would be pretty certain it would have to be carried over.
Look, I'm running for speaker of the House. I'm not running for sainthood, ... I'm not looking to be canonized. I am just a regular guy.
I'm not sure if it will or not; it is up to each individual member of Congress to weigh, ... I've seen some of the reaction of some of my colleagues in Washington especially some of those on the Judiciary Committee. It does not appear to have made a big difference.
The era of big spending is still with us, ... He promised everything to everybody.