Well Jim and I met because we both were interns down at the General Assembly.
We were interns for senators. I was for Sen. Goodall and he was for,
I forget the name. It's probably not important in politics.
But that's where we met
and we just became fast friends but not actually great friends at that time,
but our offices were next to each other and our bosses were friends and we were always running into each other.
He ran for student body president, and of course I knew who he was then even more than anything, okay, that's the guy running for student body president,
and he knew I was in student government and he just approached me and was like: I'm interested in your views; I know you're in student government;
I'm not from student government. He actually came from Georgia
and he just wanted my opinion and feedback and we just learned that we worked really well together
because I had the experience from being in student government and he as an outsider
had the experience of not being in student government and the two together worked out quite well.
So many things to say about Jim. He is one of my best friends.
He is an awesome motivator and speaker. The guy can talk forever
but everyone will listen the whole time [Laughs] because he speaks so eloquently and loudly and charismatically.
He's just a guy with charisma. It's hard to remember so much about that year.
It was a lot of helping him, and that's the point of the chief of staff. I was going to events and student functions that he couldn't attend,
'cause the idea is that you'll attend meetings of other organizations on campus as well as your commitments to be at these university meetings, which is huge.
I mean the task of being student body president is, if you do it right, which there's no one really checking you, I guess,
so you can do it however you feel, but for him he wanted to be at all those as much as possible,
so he was letting me go to inter-residence council meetings, things like that, on his behalf,
take notes, bring it back to him, serve as the conduit between executive branch and senate,
employ things that he just didn't have time for, helping with emails, his calendar, that kind of thing. Jim's a great guy.