![]() At the dinner table, the kids couldn’t speak. “He’d grab you if you didn’t,” Greg Pence has recalled. He demanded that they stand whenever an adult entered a room. He seldom showed up to his sons’ activities. His father was a veteran of the Korean War who ran a chain of gas stations. ![]() ![]() Richard Michael Cawley was an immigrant from Ireland who became a bus driver in Chicago and taught his grandkids to recite “Humpty Dumpty” in Gaelic. Michael Richard Pence was born in Columbus, Ind., an hour or so south of Indianapolis, on Jthe third of four sons and six children. “Ambition,” in the estimation of the former Democratic minority leader of the Indiana House of Representatives, “got the best of him.” 6. “I am a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order,” Pence often says. “People know Mike Pence,” said one of the leaders of a pro-Pence super PAC. “I’ve known him for 30 years,” a former longtime neighbor told one of his biographers, “and I still don’t know him.” 3. “You invariably think, ‘I need to be like someone who is interesting.’” 2. “There is a temptation, intentionally or unintentionally, to imitate people you respect,” he once said. He does, they report, commendable impressions of George W. People who have spent time with him say he’s a great mimic. Here, drawn from interviews he’s done, the most revealing profiles written over the years, a pair of biographies and his recent pre-campaign memoir, is a Mike Pence brush-up.
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