May 10, 2025 • 14 mins
In this episode, Music Legend Lee Greenwood discusses the inspiration behind his iconic song 'God Bless the USA,' its cultural significance, and his commitment to supporting wounded warriors and military families. He shares insights into his personal journey, family values, and evolving political perspectives, emphasizing the importance of patriotism and community support. The Tudor Dixon Podcast is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network. For more visit TudorDixonPodcast.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We were here in Georgia at the Job Creators Network
Freedom Fighter's Summit and we found Lee Greenwood out here.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Just wandering around the hole.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Let me just grabbed them and brought them over.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
But I mean, this is really exciting for me because
we've your song has inspired an entire generation of people
to get involved in politics and follow as president.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And I really do.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I mean that from the standpoint of that starts playing
and no matter where I am, everybody's singing it.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
What doesn't that mean to you?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Let me just go back to the beginning of me
writing God Blessed the UYSA.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It was in nineteen eighty three, so before politics.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I mean, it was the song that I wrote for
America because of the love of my love of the country.
And I'm a farmer from California. You know, I was
a drum major from a high school marching band, and
it was a lot of things that added up in
my head to wanting to do that. But when my
career started in Nashville, Tennessee as a country artist, my background,
which is rhythm of blues and jack rock.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I was raised in the Beagle area during the Vietnam War.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
There was a lot of things in my head that
kind of said, I really love being in a country
that's free and we can vote freely for who we
want to be president and officials who tell us what's
best for us as a people. And I guess when
I got to Nashville, there was a moment or two
where I just didn't have any time but to just tour.
And I did that for three hundred days a year
(01:24):
for the first three years.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
And after five and six albums, I had an inspiration
one night to just write the song which I've been
writing to write.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
For my entire life.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So once you were six, after seeing the entire country
then from a tour bus.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah, because being born in California, twenty years in Nevada,
I mean I was in the casinos in Nevada for
twenty years, performing there in all kinds of shows, main room, lounges.
I even dealt cards into casinos for a while, this
kind of you know, keep the bills being paid. But
I never really toured the entire country. So from my
point of view, when I say Washington, that means I'm
(02:01):
from the West coast, from the East coast, say Washington
to me a while, because now I live in the South,
and I say, y'all, so so yes, things change when
I started touring the whole country and I got a
better perspective of if I may put it this way,
from Seattle to Miami, or New York de Los Angeles,
of Virginia to Frisco, and you kind of see things differently.
(02:23):
And yet when I when I was perceiving moving from
the West coast to the South, I didn't really envision
that the people would be.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Similar.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
But they are and a different culture in New York
than Houston. Sure, but when you talk about patriotism, there's
nowhere more patriot than the people in New York City,
or in Dallas, Texas, or San Jose, California, you know,
or Virginia. I mean, I've found it to be very
true no matter where you go. And so as my
(02:57):
song began to resonate with everyone saying unities, what's important,
then it started resonating, of course, with the politics and politicians.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And here was that then it would have been during
the Reagan era.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Because I wrote the song in nineteen eighty three, I
was at the RNC only by choice for Ronald.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Reagan and the reason I ended up there.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Was because I did a command performance at the White
House for the Reagan and Bush administration. And that's when
I met forty one, who became a very close friend
until the time of its passing. And then of course
it just kind of rolled over, you know, to the
next conservative. I found out who I was at that
point because then I realized I am a conservative.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I wasn't probably as a youngster.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I mean, I have to admit I was like, you know,
wild in life and that having a great time with life.
But I became more of a conservatives as I moved
along until now my wife Kim and I who have
been married thirty three years, and she's a Southerner from
Tennessee and was a former Miss Tennessee, USA. And I
married into a very beautiful Christian family and so we've
(04:04):
become even more entrenched, I think in the conservative values
of what makes this country move along.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
That's awesome with this guy. So how did that happen?
I mean, when did he come to you?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Because this is like people see this as his song
now and that this is Walkouse song.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Right if you look at it from my perspective, When
I've I worked with Bush campaign, both Bush presidents, father
and son, and then I recorded an album in nineteen
ninety two after I married my wife, Kim, who was
in miss Tennessee, USA, and worked with Donald Trump for
twenty one years as a director for three states in
(04:42):
the South, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Naturally it would be rubbing elbows with.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Donald Trump as the owner of miss Universe for a
long time, so we knew him long before. But there
was none of the are you going to run for president?
Could you use my song? It was none of that
that would come much later. But during that period of
time in between presidents, I recorded American Patriot, which is
all of American songs, which is America, the beautiful God,
(05:10):
bless America, that this land is your land, even the
Battle Him of the Republic, which At one time I
was working the Hilton Hotel in Vegas. Elvis was in
the main room and I used to go watch him
sing the Trilogy, and I went, that's Southern Americanism. And
I saw, if I ever get my career, I'm going
to actually sing the trilogy to.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Close my show.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I knew it very well, but it was just not
to be, because Tim and I were married in ninety two,
the same year that I released the album, and then
four or five six years you know, prior to that,
I had already realized that I have to.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Have my own anthem.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
And when I wrote it, it wasn't for politics, of course,
you know that, right, and it still is And of course,
after our great president, President Trump leaves office, it'll once
again be the focus of what we do, and.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
That's building homes for wounded moriers.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
And over fifteen years we've built two hundred and twenty
homes throughout the South and we're going to spread to
the rest of the country. Thanks to people like Johnny
Morris from Basspro and lun Our Homes and a few
others charity called Helping a Hero.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
We also worked for tunnels to.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Towers in New York, Saint Jude's and Memphis and things
that we cherish and we support.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But so does that come from your time watching everyone
coming back from Vietnam?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Like what inspired that? Because I saw you at one
of your events.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I went to one of your events where you bring
up the wounded warriors on stage and you present them
with a home.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, that's a very special time.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, No, to answer your question, I just love the
pageantry I guess of marching the military and is discipline.
We recently sang for the opening of the Medal of
Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas, which is supported by forty
three and the land given by Jerry Jones that owns
Dallas Cowboys is right next to Cowboys Stadium. So if
(06:57):
you ever want to go see something that represents American
patriotism at its roots, and that's those who are awarded
the Medal of Honor for valor and for doing things
above and beyond what they possibly would have expect of
a soldier. So when we were there, of course recognized
(07:17):
a lot of those people are my friends who I've
known for a long time. And that's the reason, I
guess from the very beginning when I would drum major
from a high school marching band and I saw you know,
the military marching right with along side of me, and
we played USO shows for like fifteen or twenty years
as well. It's just I think from my point as
(07:39):
a role model in music, I think I have some
kind of a responsibility to make sure people know what
the basic of patriotism is. You can't imagine a six
year old who will send me a video of their
parents will partly send me the video of them standing
waving the flag and singing God Bless you with saying
her tiny little sweet voice. That's for patriotism, stuf Art.
(08:00):
But you can never forget that it's the military that
pays the price. We all enjoyed this here right, there's
some soldiers somewhere who is in danger and may get
wounded or may get killed because of his dedication to
this sacrifice.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
We were in Washington last week and we were taking
the eighth grade class and my daughter I took a
picture of her in front of the Korean War Memorial
where it says freedom is not free, And I said
to her, do you know what that means?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And she didn't know what it meant, of course, uh.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And I was like, this is the beauty of how
we've honored people and that you have those open conversations
and what you do. It allows us to talk to
our kids about what that starting that patriotism early and
what that actually means. You told me your son is
about to graduate from college, So what do your kids
think about all this?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well, Dolphin's thirty and now married.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
He was valedictorian of his high school in Franklin, Tennessee,
and we let him go to the college of his choice.
He went to an Ivy League WNL in Virginia, and
I got a bio chemistry degree with undergrad which is
I didn't know what undergrad meant. I thought, when you graduated,
you graduated, it's like less of a graduation. And then
(09:09):
so then he went on to Vanderbilt and got a
PhD in cancer research and immunology. So he's a biotech
analyst and he's been working in Chicago recently with his
wife and our younger boy's twenty six.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
He was like very smart.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
He had a perfect science score in high school, but
wasn't valedictorian, but he was a chancellor scholar for TCU
and Fort Worth, Texas for four years. Changed from theater
major to music major, and now he's finishing his masters
in music production and engineering at the University of Miami,
and he graduates next week, so he will be coming
back to Nashville and starting his career parallel to mine. Bob,
(09:47):
I hate it when people say, oh, he's walking in
your shoes. He's doing what you do no, hardly. Parker
will be very different. He's a great singer and piano
player and all, but he wants to produce it, wants
to be artistic. And so if anybody wants to look
at his YouTube, it's Parker Greenwood. And he's got five
songs for his thesis in college, which would be his
final project that he wrote, produced, sang, and did all
(10:09):
the songs.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
So that's kind of fun. That is.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
So do they do any of these political events with
you or did they stay out of that.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
They've had the opportunity, yes, to be at many of
the events, and I don't expect a lot from them
in that regard.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I don't know what. I don't even ask them what
politics that they are in.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I mean, we you know, we've never that's not even
a you know.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
We've never influenced our children to do with Because I
was liberal when I was beginning, I would imagine they
probably are. They both went to college and Dalton's wife
went to college, so I think that they probably have
more of a liberal look at at their world because
they don't really have a lot to protect yet. But
I think that's the key is once we've become mature
enough to know that we have something to protect. You
(10:55):
suddenly realize what freedom means and how much you have
to devote to it and then what you want to
get from it. And I think that's what makes a conservative.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And that is a really good point. If you have
something to protect, that changed your mind.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Even when we're in there today talking about debt and
all this and why does this affect and why not
just keep taxation. It's interesting because you do have a
different perspective when you have your children, absolutely and you
and you go, well, I don't want them to end
up with this, And it is funny because that is
a universal feeling.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I don't want to leave something bad for my kids.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
And I will say this, both both of our sons,
Dalton and Parker, and my wife and I were all
very tight. Kim and I've been married thirty three years,
and we understand what our commitment to them is. But
now as the adults, we let them start making more
decisions on their own, and we love the fact that
they will do that and not necessarily.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Mirror who we are or what we are. But I'm very.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Confident that as they watch what I do, they don't
even if they didn't think like I did. They certainly
don't go against what I believe in. I mean, we
don't have arguments about that. But they endorse, you know,
my lifestyle. They endorse what I do for the country,
if not even for the president or for the Congress,
(12:10):
because that's a fluctuating.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Thing and that's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And when you were talking to me about your travel
schedule to massive amount, I'll just end on this.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Do you think that continues? Do you see in the
foreseeable future?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Do you think you just continue traveling for the wounded
warriors for the president.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Of Well absolutely.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I will say this too that because of my reappointment
by President Trump to the as a trustee to the
Kennedy Center, I keep trying to being pushed away for
I keep pushing away from Washington, DC, and it keeps
dragging me back. You know, President Bush forty three nominated
and elected me to be part of the NEA. So
(12:47):
I was a national down of the Arts Council for
like twelve years. It's a six year appointment. But the
further administrations Democratic Republic and didn't replace me. I think
maybe it's hard to replace America's patriot. But yeah, but
Finally when it got to the Biden administration, it was
like each is kind of waved his hand and we
all went away. But thanks to President Trump, I'm back
(13:07):
in Washington, d C. Now at the Kennedy Center and
proudly to serve one of the premier places in the
United States for performance.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I'm so excited to be there.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well, we are honored that you were here today. We're
honored that you do what you do, and I just
want to say thank you. I think on behalf of
almost all Americans, we appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, we love what you do, and I'll enjoy performing
tonight for this group who embraced his freedom like we should.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
That's right and that I think that is the key.
We're here at the Job Creator's Network Summit. It has
been an amazing day, great people. Lee Greenwood, thank you
so much for being on the podcast, and you're so welcome,
and thank you all for listening to the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
For this episode and others, go to Tutor Dison podcast
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Speaker 3 (13:54):
Last dang
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We were here in Georgia at the Job Creators Network
Freedom Fighter's Summit and we found Lee Greenwood out here.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Just wandering around the hole.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Let me just grabbed them and brought them over.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
But I mean, this is really exciting for me because
we've your song has inspired an entire generation of people
to get involved in politics and follow as president.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
And I really do.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I mean that from the standpoint of that starts playing
and no matter where I am, everybody's singing it.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
What doesn't that mean to you?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Let me just go back to the beginning of me
writing God Blessed the UYSA.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It was in nineteen eighty three, so before politics.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I mean, it was the song that I wrote for
America because of the love of my love of the country.
And I'm a farmer from California. You know, I was
a drum major from a high school marching band, and
it was a lot of things that added up in
my head to wanting to do that. But when my
career started in Nashville, Tennessee as a country artist, my background,
which is rhythm of blues and jack rock.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I was raised in the Beagle area during the Vietnam War.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
There was a lot of things in my head that
kind of said, I really love being in a country
that's free and we can vote freely for who we
want to be president and officials who tell us what's
best for us as a people. And I guess when
I got to Nashville, there was a moment or two
where I just didn't have any time but to just tour.
And I did that for three hundred days a year
(01:24):
for the first three years.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
And after five and six albums, I had an inspiration
one night to just write the song which I've been
writing to write.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
For my entire life.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So once you were six, after seeing the entire country
then from a tour bus.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah, because being born in California, twenty years in Nevada,
I mean I was in the casinos in Nevada for
twenty years, performing there in all kinds of shows, main room, lounges.
I even dealt cards into casinos for a while, this
kind of you know, keep the bills being paid. But
I never really toured the entire country. So from my
point of view, when I say Washington, that means I'm
(02:01):
from the West coast, from the East coast, say Washington
to me a while, because now I live in the South,
and I say, y'all, so so yes, things change when
I started touring the whole country and I got a
better perspective of if I may put it this way,
from Seattle to Miami, or New York de Los Angeles,
of Virginia to Frisco, and you kind of see things differently.
(02:23):
And yet when I when I was perceiving moving from
the West coast to the South, I didn't really envision
that the people would be.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Similar.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
But they are and a different culture in New York
than Houston. Sure, but when you talk about patriotism, there's
nowhere more patriot than the people in New York City,
or in Dallas, Texas, or San Jose, California, you know,
or Virginia. I mean, I've found it to be very
true no matter where you go. And so as my
(02:57):
song began to resonate with everyone saying unities, what's important,
then it started resonating, of course, with the politics and politicians.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And here was that then it would have been during
the Reagan era.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Because I wrote the song in nineteen eighty three, I
was at the RNC only by choice for Ronald.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Reagan and the reason I ended up there.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Was because I did a command performance at the White
House for the Reagan and Bush administration. And that's when
I met forty one, who became a very close friend
until the time of its passing. And then of course
it just kind of rolled over, you know, to the
next conservative. I found out who I was at that
point because then I realized I am a conservative.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I wasn't probably as a youngster.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I mean, I have to admit I was like, you know,
wild in life and that having a great time with life.
But I became more of a conservatives as I moved
along until now my wife Kim and I who have
been married thirty three years, and she's a Southerner from
Tennessee and was a former Miss Tennessee, USA. And I
married into a very beautiful Christian family and so we've
(04:04):
become even more entrenched, I think in the conservative values
of what makes this country move along.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
That's awesome with this guy. So how did that happen?
I mean, when did he come to you?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Because this is like people see this as his song
now and that this is Walkouse song.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Right if you look at it from my perspective, When
I've I worked with Bush campaign, both Bush presidents, father
and son, and then I recorded an album in nineteen
ninety two after I married my wife, Kim, who was
in miss Tennessee, USA, and worked with Donald Trump for
twenty one years as a director for three states in
(04:42):
the South, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Naturally it would be rubbing elbows with.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Donald Trump as the owner of miss Universe for a
long time, so we knew him long before. But there
was none of the are you going to run for president?
Could you use my song? It was none of that
that would come much later. But during that period of
time in between presidents, I recorded American Patriot, which is
all of American songs, which is America, the beautiful God,
(05:10):
bless America, that this land is your land, even the
Battle Him of the Republic, which At one time I
was working the Hilton Hotel in Vegas. Elvis was in
the main room and I used to go watch him
sing the Trilogy, and I went, that's Southern Americanism. And
I saw, if I ever get my career, I'm going
to actually sing the trilogy to.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Close my show.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
I knew it very well, but it was just not
to be, because Tim and I were married in ninety two,
the same year that I released the album, and then
four or five six years you know, prior to that,
I had already realized that I have to.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Have my own anthem.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
And when I wrote it, it wasn't for politics, of course,
you know that, right, and it still is And of course,
after our great president, President Trump leaves office, it'll once
again be the focus of what we do, and.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
That's building homes for wounded moriers.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
And over fifteen years we've built two hundred and twenty
homes throughout the South and we're going to spread to
the rest of the country. Thanks to people like Johnny
Morris from Basspro and lun Our Homes and a few
others charity called Helping a Hero.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
We also worked for tunnels to.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Towers in New York, Saint Jude's and Memphis and things
that we cherish and we support.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
But so does that come from your time watching everyone
coming back from Vietnam?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Like what inspired that? Because I saw you at one
of your events.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I went to one of your events where you bring
up the wounded warriors on stage and you present them
with a home.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, that's a very special time.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, No, to answer your question, I just love the
pageantry I guess of marching the military and is discipline.
We recently sang for the opening of the Medal of
Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas, which is supported by forty
three and the land given by Jerry Jones that owns
Dallas Cowboys is right next to Cowboys Stadium. So if
(06:57):
you ever want to go see something that represents American
patriotism at its roots, and that's those who are awarded
the Medal of Honor for valor and for doing things
above and beyond what they possibly would have expect of
a soldier. So when we were there, of course recognized
(07:17):
a lot of those people are my friends who I've
known for a long time. And that's the reason, I
guess from the very beginning when I would drum major
from a high school marching band and I saw you know,
the military marching right with along side of me, and
we played USO shows for like fifteen or twenty years
as well. It's just I think from my point as
(07:39):
a role model in music, I think I have some
kind of a responsibility to make sure people know what
the basic of patriotism is. You can't imagine a six
year old who will send me a video of their
parents will partly send me the video of them standing
waving the flag and singing God Bless you with saying
her tiny little sweet voice. That's for patriotism, stuf Art.
(08:00):
But you can never forget that it's the military that
pays the price. We all enjoyed this here right, there's
some soldiers somewhere who is in danger and may get
wounded or may get killed because of his dedication to
this sacrifice.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
We were in Washington last week and we were taking
the eighth grade class and my daughter I took a
picture of her in front of the Korean War Memorial
where it says freedom is not free, And I said
to her, do you know what that means?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And she didn't know what it meant, of course, uh.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And I was like, this is the beauty of how
we've honored people and that you have those open conversations
and what you do. It allows us to talk to
our kids about what that starting that patriotism early and
what that actually means. You told me your son is
about to graduate from college, So what do your kids
think about all this?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Well, Dolphin's thirty and now married.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
He was valedictorian of his high school in Franklin, Tennessee,
and we let him go to the college of his choice.
He went to an Ivy League WNL in Virginia, and
I got a bio chemistry degree with undergrad which is
I didn't know what undergrad meant. I thought, when you graduated,
you graduated, it's like less of a graduation. And then
(09:09):
so then he went on to Vanderbilt and got a
PhD in cancer research and immunology. So he's a biotech
analyst and he's been working in Chicago recently with his
wife and our younger boy's twenty six.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
He was like very smart.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
He had a perfect science score in high school, but
wasn't valedictorian, but he was a chancellor scholar for TCU
and Fort Worth, Texas for four years. Changed from theater
major to music major, and now he's finishing his masters
in music production and engineering at the University of Miami,
and he graduates next week, so he will be coming
back to Nashville and starting his career parallel to mine. Bob,
(09:47):
I hate it when people say, oh, he's walking in
your shoes. He's doing what you do no, hardly. Parker
will be very different. He's a great singer and piano
player and all, but he wants to produce it, wants
to be artistic. And so if anybody wants to look
at his YouTube, it's Parker Greenwood. And he's got five
songs for his thesis in college, which would be his
final project that he wrote, produced, sang, and did all
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the songs.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
So that's kind of fun. That is.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
So do they do any of these political events with
you or did they stay out of that.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
They've had the opportunity, yes, to be at many of
the events, and I don't expect a lot from them
in that regard.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I don't know what. I don't even ask them what
politics that they are in.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I mean, we you know, we've never that's not even
a you know.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
We've never influenced our children to do with Because I
was liberal when I was beginning, I would imagine they
probably are. They both went to college and Dalton's wife
went to college, so I think that they probably have
more of a liberal look at at their world because
they don't really have a lot to protect yet. But
I think that's the key is once we've become mature
enough to know that we have something to protect. You
(10:55):
suddenly realize what freedom means and how much you have
to devote to it and then what you want to
get from it. And I think that's what makes a conservative.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And that is a really good point. If you have
something to protect, that changed your mind.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Even when we're in there today talking about debt and
all this and why does this affect and why not
just keep taxation. It's interesting because you do have a
different perspective when you have your children, absolutely and you
and you go, well, I don't want them to end
up with this, And it is funny because that is
a universal feeling.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I don't want to leave something bad for my kids.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
And I will say this, both both of our sons,
Dalton and Parker, and my wife and I were all
very tight. Kim and I've been married thirty three years,
and we understand what our commitment to them is. But
now as the adults, we let them start making more
decisions on their own, and we love the fact that
they will do that and not necessarily.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Mirror who we are or what we are. But I'm very.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Confident that as they watch what I do, they don't
even if they didn't think like I did. They certainly
don't go against what I believe in. I mean, we
don't have arguments about that. But they endorse, you know,
my lifestyle. They endorse what I do for the country,
if not even for the president or for the Congress,
(12:10):
because that's a fluctuating.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Thing and that's a lot of work.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
And when you were talking to me about your travel
schedule to massive amount, I'll just end on this.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Do you think that continues? Do you see in the
foreseeable future?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Do you think you just continue traveling for the wounded
warriors for the president.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Of Well absolutely.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I will say this too that because of my reappointment
by President Trump to the as a trustee to the
Kennedy Center, I keep trying to being pushed away for
I keep pushing away from Washington, DC, and it keeps
dragging me back. You know, President Bush forty three nominated
and elected me to be part of the NEA. So
(12:47):
I was a national down of the Arts Council for
like twelve years. It's a six year appointment. But the
further administrations Democratic Republic and didn't replace me. I think
maybe it's hard to replace America's patriot. But yeah, but
Finally when it got to the Biden administration, it was
like each is kind of waved his hand and we
all went away. But thanks to President Trump, I'm back
(13:07):
in Washington, d C. Now at the Kennedy Center and
proudly to serve one of the premier places in the
United States for performance.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I'm so excited to be there.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well, we are honored that you were here today. We're
honored that you do what you do, and I just
want to say thank you. I think on behalf of
almost all Americans, we appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, we love what you do, and I'll enjoy performing
tonight for this group who embraced his freedom like we should.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
That's right and that I think that is the key.
We're here at the Job Creator's Network Summit. It has
been an amazing day, great people. Lee Greenwood, thank you
so much for being on the podcast, and you're so welcome,
and thank you all for listening to the Tutor Dixon Podcast.
For this episode and others, go to Tutor Dison podcast
dot com, the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you
get your podcasts, and we'll see you next time.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
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