November 13, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Thursday, November 13.
Today is the birthday of Texas governor, Greg Abbott. He follows in a long line of chief executives of our state who were well known across the country. The list includes Abbott’s predecessor, Rick Perry, who ran for president; John Connally, who was riding in the car with President Kennedy that fateful day in November 1963; and Sam Houston, who was also the first president of the Republic of Texas.
But Abbott has more in common with two other governors - Franklin Roosevelt of New York and George Wallace of Alabama. Roosevelt, who went on to be our 32nd president, was paralyzed by polio, and Wallace, running for president at the time, was paralyzed by a would-be assassin’s bullet. With Abbott, they are the three American governors who sat in wheelchairs.
Greg Abbott was 26 years old, had just graduated from Vanderbilt Law School, and was studying for the bar exam, when he decided to take a break and go for a run. On that afternoon in 1984, in Houston, a limb fell from a huge oak tree and struck him in the back. That was the last time he would run, or even walk. But Abbott passed the bar exam, became a successful lawyer, a member of the Texas Supreme Court, our Attorney General, and, for the last ten years the governor of the Lone Star State. An inspiring story.
Almost every character in the Bible has an inspiring story, a story of challenge followed by success. Life stories like these give us encouragement and hope, give us the determination to rise again when we fall. “We are not defined by the challenges we face, but by how we respond to those challenges.” - Greg Abbott
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
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