In 1990, during the second half of my senior year of high school in Boise, Idaho, I served as a page/ intern in the Idaho State Senate. That experience gave me the opportunity to very closely follow the key personalities there, as well as Idaho's governor at the time, Cecil D. Andrus. Andrus was just finishing up his third term as Governor, having returned to the state house after two previous terms as Governor and service as Jimmy Carter's Secretary of the Interior. As a page/ intern, my opportunities to interact with Governor Andrus were limited of course, though I did have one memorable exchange with him, which I've related elsewhere.
Even though my life has taken me away from Idaho, I remain interested in the state's politics and political personalities. That's why I was excited to hear that Chris Carlson, longtime confident of Andrus, would be publishing a reminiscence of the Governor. Carlson's Andrus is filled with a number of wonderful anecdotes and does credit to Idaho's four-term Governor. Very good reading for anyone with interest in Idaho political history (admittedly, a small group, perhaps).
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