Sen. Lott (R-Miss.) Announces He Will Resign By the Year's End

I did call the president and the vice president and the governor last night, talked about what we had planned, and assuring all of them that I would want to continue to work to try to find a way to finish up this session in the best way possible.

Let me make it clear, there are no problems. I feel fine. I may look my 66 years, but I honestly feel good. And I get up every day believing that I can maybe have a positive effect on what we do in the Senate. I like being a happy warrior. I don't like some of the negativism that we're deal with now, but that's life and that's the role, I guess, of politics sometime.

But I don't have any problem. This is not a negative thing. There's no malice, no anger, there's nothing but happiness and pride at the job that I've been allowed to do by the people of Mississippi and by my colleagues in the House and Senate.

I don't know what the future holds for us. A lot of options, hopefully, will be available. I've always thought I might like to teach some, son of a school teacher, why wouldn't I want to do that.

Our son Chet has turned out to be a pretty good musician. Maybe I could manage his musical career.

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I talked to Chancellor Robert Khayat at Ole Miss yesterday and submitted my name for head coach at Ole Miss.

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I didn't appreciate his response.

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He said, "You may have played pretty good football on the corner of Lake Avenue and Morgan Lane, but -- in Pascagoula -- but you ain't going to be a football coach." So I guess that's not an option.

And, you know, we don't have anything definitely lined up at this time, so I just wanted to make that clear.