Campaign 2012 Tidbits (23 of 26): Eastwood inspiration.

From Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s Double Down – Game Change 2012 (New York: Penguin Press, 2013), p.373:

Up in his suite at the Marriott, Eastwood was still noodling over his [yet unplanned] remarks.  He turned on the radio, tuned in an oldies station, and heard Neil Diamond signing “I Am... I Said.”  Clint liked Neil, but the lyrics pulled him up short: “I am, I said, to no one there.  And no one heard at all, not even the chair.”

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