[applause] thank you so much as you or your audience does the onon line or c-span welcome. it's going to be riveting conversation i say that as someone who is in the store for a couple of minutes of comments before it turned over my friend and colleague who will be running the show tonight in 1994 it was presence of my university and it was more than a dream. it was under the reagan revolutionoo that dick armey wod

soon be the majority leader that phil gramm's expertise along with b dick armey would be ascendant in the south and while we have the t bee careful as historians not to dwell in the past we can as we are on the brink of red wife and i mean that philosophic way this year, we know that it isn't nearly about party registration. about one party being in charge instead of another. it's about the ideas that define us as a people namely freedom, forcing in this town and this government is spending a of a lot less money. so it is a great, great privilege to have dick armey senator phil gramm one of my political mentor to a o couple f years later was thinking about running for different office inn

louisiana and i said senator this was before there was a red way from louisiana would you adopt this and he said son you just keep doing what you are doing. here we are manyat years later senator good to see you and welcome back heritage. withoutho further ado it's alson equally great privilege to have steve moore back to the heritage foundation to welcome our distinguished fellow and i'll turn the program over to him. [applause] [inaudible] [laughter] thank you kevin for that kind introduction and i'm loving this new era at heritage. fantastic. his leadership has been amazing. we are going to have some fun today tonight and book him two c-span audienceie as well. dick armey is a legend. he's one of a few people who

cut -- came to this town to make government smaller and not bigger. [applause] so we have, i just got this note from newt gingrich who as you all know the speaker of the house and the one with dick armey who engineered the republic revolutionn in 1984. i'd love to read this comment. it's really sweet. dick armey was invaluable as a creative dynamic energetic member when we are inn the minority and was a key part of the contract for america majority and extraordinary force for good ideas and a leader who helped reelect the house gop minority for the first time in 68 years of help develop the only for balanced budgets. his new book provides a vivid

wise insight into the process of an institution. that's a nice tribute to dick armey and this is the book. if you haven't gotten this book it's a great read. i think this quote should be read by every political science major in america should be reading this book. it really is a great discussion of how washington works and how things get done and don't get done in washington. we are going to have some fun telling our dick armey stories in there at least 15 or 20 people who work for you at one time or another. in addition to all of the great contributionsnt you made directy to policy when the fear great resolutions was the incredible number of successful people w yu mentored including myself. my little story about sub.

is that i worked for dick on the joint economic committee in 1993 or 1994 and i remember that when i was on the committee and i decided in the summer of 1994 i was going to leave the committee.e if you are working for a minority member of the house you might so have not been there. the democrats were so aired and after 40 years like republicans were even there. i went to dick i said i love working for you but i can't do this anymore. we aren't having much of an impact and i'llr never forget dick said steve you cannot leave now. remember this crises that don't leave now because we are going to take the house in november of 1994. and you are part of that revolution is well.

whatever you are smoking i want some because it seemed so incredible and people forget how improbable it seemed and how many seats do you have the pickup? like 60 seats or something like that it was obviously a tidal wave election and in no small part because newt gingrich and dick armey. when the republicans stand for something they went. when they are just the of two evils which is most of the time they lose. that was an incredible period and what you u.n. in the hole teen did from 1995 through 2000 only for balanced budget and lasts 50 years and we did welfare reform and tax cuts and all these incredible things. dick armey for the other people in this room you were the first inspiration for the flat tax idea. you are one of the first inspiration for the medical savings accounts. you were never with me on term

limits. i don't think you like that very much.o anyway it's just so fantastic to have you here. i want to turn the podium over to senator phil gramm who i'm at when phil gramm came up with this idea called the gramm-rudman bill. the gramm-rudman bill was no spending cuts if we could get the deficit down and all of washington had heart palpitations over this but it was one of the few times that wy cut spending under the gramm-rudman bill and he's been a crusader and hails from the great state of texas. give him a niceic warm welcome o phil gramm of texas. [applause]

>> thank you steve. nobody told me i was going to say anything. i will say a few things. president reagan put his arm around me and he looked me in the eye and he said weinberger tells i me your croom redman is more dangerous than the sovietwe ministry. will you assure me that that's not true? and i said yes mr. president i will assure you that's not true. dick and i were destined to become friends because we are both in texas and we are both economists and we both wanted less government. there's not a lot of people who

come to government with the idea idea -- institutions that come to be part of. i never lost my awe of it and that was dick have this view that had become a the leader of the central committee and was oneov of the people running it. sos when we got together it was sort of like i was there as an american handler and he was telling me what we were actually doing inside the of the. and they never ceased to find that fascinating. i served in washington for a quarter of a century and i've dealt with a lot of people but i

can say without any fear of contradiction that of all the people that i ever served with dick armey was less interested in getting credit for the things he did than anybody i've ever dealt with in government. as far as i could tell his aspiration other than saving america was a ford f1 50 version. [applause] and he got it. his story is a story that reassures me about america. dick was from north dakota.

i don't have any idea where it is. i went to north dakota to campaign for him and i have to plug in the car to keep the tires from freezing. but he came from north dakota and he became the first republican majority the first matured the pub later and he was the indispensable leader in changing america and implement the final stones on the reagan revolution. then he retired and went back of the plane servicemen. to me that is a reassuring story. i once had a guy in china ask me where did you come from?

we try to look at leadership in america and we can't figure out where we came from. i tried to explain to him and america the greatest of our country is leaders just come from all over. people are always saying where are the reagans and where are the dick armey's when we need them? i know they are out there. they are waiting to be discovered and waiting for the lightbulb. the only thing, well let me just say the contract with america, dick armey wrote the contract. he gave it the name contract with america. i was the chairman of the republican senatorial committee. we tried to copy it by having

seven and we won more than seven seats. i'm not take anything away from newt gingrich. he ran with it and he made it famous and he deserves all the credit he gets. dick armey was the father of contract with america. [applause] i don't wantup to overstate my welcome. just a couple of words. from the beginning of the republic we had money because of an inability to close government facilities particularly military bases. what dick did with the new and original idea of his own creation was he came up with the idea of a commission and a straight up-or-down vote in congressro to approve the closig

of a military base so it allowed congressman or senator to go to the l military to place when the bulldozer was coming in and to lie down on the ground in that last moment russian and drag me out. i'll be begging to die. pull me out. then it will be gone. and that's exactly what happened. we closed the love of military bases that should have never been built to begin with and operating it is draining the blood out of america. dick was instrumental in welfare reform.fu the most successful reform of the government program in american history. why we don't take that reform program and apply it to every

entitlement program of the federal government i don't understand. [applause] the average household in the bottom 20% of an american income worker gets over $45,000 a year in benefits from the federal government. is it any wonder they can't get people to work? and we were able to implement a program in an areamo that was te most difficult area where you have an unmarried woman with children, a situation where senator warren would say it's impossible. guess what? would perform the program and within four years, 50% of the people that have been on the program were were.

it's amazing. so i'm very happy to be here today to one, give credit where not enough credit has been given.d only because he the skill to his own horn and secondly to just say to dick it was a great privilege and one of the highlights of my career was getting together with dick where he was running the system from washington to dramatically reform welfare so dick congratulations. [applause] >> thank you senator. those were terrific comments. just one thing about the contract with america remembers subsidy dick after the

republicans w won that and i was apologetic and they said dick i didn't pay that much attention to the contract of america because i never thought you would when he said steve if people thought we would when they never would have signed the contract with america. that's a a great period and it's apparently remember your first 100 hours? those first 100 hours you passed more good legislation than probably my previous 25 years in that first 100 hours so it's an amazing resolution today seen a lot of new people come in. i'd love of all of you in this room who at some point in your career worked for dick armey could you please stand up? [applause] that's amazing. i'll say it again his legacy is the magazine people he's mentored over the years.

i want to kevin cramer. we have another person the second most famous person from north dakota kevin cramer as a senator from the state of north dakota and he is also i believe you are also from ken do? what are the odds? the most famous people in washington would come from can do. [applause] peter davidson can attest dave osborne one of the opera running backs for the vikings was from can do. he was one of your classmates. thanks for including me. my 10 years in congress for the handful of you who read the

whole book susan and i did and i'm sure she proved that itt may times that i might have been the first person in america to read the wholele book. i was reading it on the airplane and i'm laughing so hard. but to give you context my daddy and dick armey- lived across the alley from one another and in the book dick tells the story but the elder richard and there are number of richard the book wasls tasked with teaching younr richard how to climb poles when dick joined the electric rural cooperative for a summer job. the fact that dick had to go to a union shop and work for co-op.

that was the last time he did either of those things. more importantly than that brother who along with phil gramm are the two stars of the book.ay charlie and my daddy both married well and stayed married to the same person their entire life so just to give you a little of that. my dad did teach in dick didn't put this part in the book. my dad tells me gave him one of his first economic lessons. after work dick said let's go down to gordy's bar and have t a drink. maybe he didn't. [laughter] by richard cramer said you know

for the price of a drink at the bar downtown we could go to the liquor store and getas a six pa. my dad retired alignment and dick wroteca the book on pricing but the best bookis he has ever written was his memoirs. i want everybody listening and watching to read it and we celebrate that for sure. notnd only is it a great documentation of the historical moment it's a great documentation of a historical moment but it has countless lessons to all of us on how to govern and better yet how to behave. and the two go hand-in-hand. i laugh so hard at some point that people were concerned about me sitting on the plane. i'll just give you a couple lessons i learned. first - of all one of the parts that i laughed the hardest was

when the faculty wives, he is a professor had written this piece that the newspaper picked up true that stay at home wives were. it was something like that. in effect they were paid for their consumption as well as for their productivity. of course he's doing all this stuff and here's what he reminded me appear shortly after dick went to congress osama motter which by the way because of scarcity after that happened he called manyhe say can you run over and getting -- get a fighting sioux hockey jersey? and they were smart enough that you'll need to print a whole bunch of them. at the event where he received the coveted sewell ward the emcee of the alumni association

and the state republican majority leader was earl and he gets up and gives us wonderful speech talking about how perdue university system is is that not only teaches their children better children's t children. that's where the good news ended and he said the problem with universities is its faculty governance. soso get this oration on how bad it is and he gets all done and gets an ovation from the wealthy donors at the university of dakota r and he gets up and says the desert of nation has been canceled due to a recent lack of interest. [laughter] most of the family still lives there until a week or two ago and i saw some of them but his preference for freeal markets senator graham supersedes the

populism. he would have had a hard time getting elected and although i think today he would. he did coming campaign fromt in the 90s when i was a young chairman he was the guy who would come and get the lincoln day speech is onlyo had no celebrities from north dakota. we had to get assurances that he would not talk about the farm bill and he would certainly not give his opinion about ethanol. until, until he came to cut the ribbon on the ronald reagan republican senator in bismarck. the so happened that same day john hoeven the governor was to give the keynote address at the north petroleum petroleum council but he got sick so they

scrambled the morning and they said if you get dick armey to fill in and i said i think i can. as we are in the parking lot at the radisson i said this is your chance to say whatever you want about ethanol in north dakota. and i'll never forget he gets up in front of all these oilmen and he said cramer said i could say anything i want about ethanol. such a bad idea that the russians didn't even try it. in true story. he got a standingis ovation. [applause] i did one time try to plead my case for the farm bill. free markets don't work in every situation because agriculture is heavily subsidized by all of our competitors. we need a fair market are released to level the playing field to whichve he said while thinking about in contemplating it is that i've never met an

american who decided to become a farmer because someone put a gun to their head or they said okay let's talk about $1.80. i know there's a 39 page index on his book. all that i have twice that many pages. i'll always be able to back it to go back to things that really matter. dick took armies actions. dick i think you should be required reading for every freshman for sure for every freshman he comes to congress for sure because one thing that newt gingrich said to me the first time i met him and i told them you in my dad grew up together andas he said dick army is independentlyly of what one n can do and ladies and gentlemen when he passed bradke bradkey was a junior member of the

minority party. that should be encouragement for everybody that aspires to think things through the lessons of your 10 years of leadership proved that regular order works. i've been a congressman for years and i've never seen it. regular order works and when you empower every committee and he will honor the chairman. at the sea that return. i think we could get back to those principals. perhaps the greatest economics lesson you taught us in your book isha that grace is in high demand in high supply and it's still free. [applause] one of the most important lessons i take from this book is

going home on weekends is -- oh delp. it's true. you inspired me to be a senator as well and you know that. and the way he did it. don't worry i won't be as blunt as you put it because i asked him in 1993 is such a celebrity from texas in a few years would ever run for an open seat vacated by simpson to which he saidid i'm not a big enough -- o be a senator but you have the potential. [laughter] [applause] you have ours had great aspirations for me. dick armey and my father learned a valuable lesson together. if you work long hours to get time and a half.

and professor armey became professor army and there are many others that proves if you work long hours at their job you don't make an extra penny. just like my dad who worked time and have benefited his family dick and his team of benefited all of our families in. you are a man about your own book and i will quote effect to you. you are a man of stature as well as status. their few men in my life that without whom i would never be a united states senator. both are from can do and i love you both. [applause] >> thank you so much.

by the way i apologize i forgot to mention the most important person in this room susan armey and thank you for everything you have done. [applause] i asked a few people to say something about your husband. i can't wait to hear what you have to say. ladies and gentlemen susan armey. [applause] >> i wasn't sure if i was supposed to come up or not. here i am. let me think about this. my husband and i have been married for all of 42 years. [applause] and i've got to say it's never been. i remember when he first came -- we had only been married for 2.5 years and he said he no honey i think i could do a lot of good if i ran for congress and i said what?ki i'm cooking dinner you know. we have children here.

what are you talking about? anyway very quickly i had read a few articles on families and how tough life was and i said if you do this all have to think seriously about her divorce. so i left and he said really? and i said i don't know let's talk about it.t. f we did and he had deep feelings. yet w a plan and he knew who he was but he was an economist and he'd been watching c-span and he talking about this and he'd say you know there are there are so many good things that we could do so i really didn't want him to do it that he did and i encouraged him to do what he wanted and what history wanted and he ran and against all odds hed, won. and then he said on ever be in

leadership. those guys have to work all the time. it is going to be a regular member into my work and i said oh the head that's great because we can get back to normal life. before i know it he's running for leadership. anyway of course he was right. he wasn't home h for eight year. i look back now that we are out of it in so much better. he did so much. he had the best team and they did wonderful work together. i look back and it's been 20 years since he's been out of congress and i'm amazed as i've gotten older i'm amazed at the things he did.

it was worth it. it was worth it. [applause] >> before we hear from dick armey there's a person through who played a a huge role with dk armey becoming a member of congress and also majority leader and has been with them for many years literally from the very start and that is scary. where are you? can you come up and say a few words about those first campaigns and the story of that campaign and how dick really rolled the dice. thank you for everythingou you d to make him the success that he was. [applause]

>> we are still trying to figure out if susan actually voted for dick. we have heard tonight from how much of a difference he made and in its true. such a phenomenal difference he made in his career but i try to figure out what made him different. i thought of a few things and one is he truly is fearless. he chose to run for congress when everybody said it would be cool if he tried in everybody thought there was no way he would win. he ran against the mayor of arlington for years who had millions of dollars but he did it anyway. he said i'm going to win my own way. i'll knock on 10,000 dolls -- 10,000 doors and he scratched his way up and he got it done. he was honest with me when hehed interviewed me.

to be his campaign manager he said you need to know two things i don't have any money and i don't know anybody who does. [laughter] and he was direct on this. he took on all the fights and the base closing bill he was a junior member in a second term on the armed services committee and onetime senator i think it'd shared a idea with you he said it can't be done. it's impossible. just makes you want to try it that much more. with gunderson and others on the team three or four good years of getting it done he got through and it continued for many rounds. there are lots of others and talk about school choice when the first bush administration was opposed to it in their first hole was to get a majority of republicans to vote for it in now public housing reform debt cans of water found arrindell

those others in those days. people thought it you could never touch it and protecting homeschoolers which to this day shut down congress more than any other project i've ever seen. but we had remarkable success across a variety of issues. i'm trying to think of other house members are senators who left a legacy who left behind such a big body of work. ted kennedy on the other side and maybe phil gramm but there's a very short list. you can be proud of what you left behind and other differences he didn't give a hoot what w anybody thought. that gave him remarkable freedom. he did what he thought was right

and what is constant to do and he can be bent. lobbyist could notty bend femint donors in the district couldn't then some and he lost several of them but he refused. he told constituents what they believed and one famous encounter in a tall -- town hall meeting a guy kept badgering him over something over and over again and he said i've had enough with you. meet me outside after this and i will kick your. he may not have said. but that was kind of who he j w. he's a thinker and that's another thing that sets them apart is he really does spend

time he also analyzed people. thinking and he could unlock thought time today is a rare commodity. i tell my kids if you have empty time, think. .. .. i think -- probably analyzed new better than anybody else who's written or talked about nude. i'll i'll let you read the book to see his analysis of new but i think it's spot on he read widely. and he remembered what he read from all the the classic economists adam smith. he written. you know, george gilder was a great friend of his thomas soul milton friedman. this. him and he studied them, and he applied them in differentte situations. he could articulate the concepts whether it was a leadership

meeting, town hall meeting, or two. he could explain it better than anybody else i think i know. many leadership meetings are be a big battle abouth something. dick would launch into this that will equate bringing in several famous economists of the past and shut the whole thing down. in later but he believed in christ, it later in his career he learned to live out his faith in everything he did. that gave himnd tremendous peac. in particular toward the end when he was mined by people who should have been their friend. yourt went through a lot he didt with a peaceful heart and not many of us could have a walked through the way he did i think. but he also developed through a giant true friendships people you've not expect. those of you who have been around for a while, he and dick were great buddies for the did agree on her the anything but

their great friends. jim right, they became great friends. rosa which really surprised me they became friends with her during the homeland security committee. chuck schumer, working with chuck schumer in the day. jack brooks was a crustless guy in the world but dick was the only guy who could joke with them and get away with it. even barney frank they were actually friends. people don't believe that but they were. his good nature allowed him to say things that most people cannot get away with. one of my favorite stories in the book he was showing up at one of the office buildings and has he was going through, maxine waters happened to show up and she was with some of her colleagues. those of you know maxine waters might appreciate this. he said ohf maxine, i'm so glad to see you. she said why? and he said now you can call for the witchhunt. [laughter] and she just laughed.

and her colleagues said maxine you can't take that. and she said come on, that was pretty funny. she had a good sense of humor about her too. he was good at being his seat people did not like it when he passed on them. [laughter] i've recently come back to the hill after 20 year absence. and as i look at the hill today, it is a very, very different place. today's political entrepreneurs as opposed to policy entrepreneurs. today at what typically passes as a campaign is to make a comment or perhaps tweet something that was outrageous. on their favoritete tv network, yell at somebody on the floor. make a spectacle then send that millions of e-mails and text and try to raise money on it and back to the same thing. that is pretty much what a large part of our movement has turned into which is unfortunate.

we desperately need people like dick. it's hard to find an entrepreneurial congressman. members don't have an opportunity to be effective on their and can we offer amendments on the floor like they did. but i hopee if republicans when they take the majority and they will reopen this and let members show they can be a legislator. anwe need that substance. we need the changes that can be made. for anyone he wants to understand the way congress workedit during army and grahams era, read his book. it is abo classic book that peoe can learn from. and i agree, maybe we should send a copy to all new freshmen coming in. i think it would be well worth their time to read it. they need to learn what it is, learn to replicate it. we need more leaders who can change america the way he did. he did come to d.c. used to write rent inca a pickup truck n

1984 campaign. he said i want to go to washington and save america. well, he did. he did that. but we need people to do it every generation. we need a whole new crop i think that can do what he did. i h am terribly proud to have known you. proud to have worked with you and to get to know susan and all the other members of our team who are here tonight part is a wonderful group. thank you for letting me be a part of this. [applause] >> one other quick story by the way the book as a leader. by richard k army. it's a wonderful read. one fun story that kerri reminded me of. i see andy is here in the front row. i worked diligently helping put together the flat tax idea the

army flat tax. you may remember the story annie but we had called in a bunch of really prominent economists who have a conversation with dick about that plan. until we brought in art laffer and i think it was steve forbes. i think jack kemp was there or someone. the three of them are huddled on this couch. we are kind of sitting across from them and dick's firstsa statement as gentlemen, he said there's not been this much brainpower on that couch i slept there alone. [laughter] that's classic. now were going to hear from dick armey one of the greatest majority leaders in the history of the house of representatives, dick armey. it. [applause] [cheering]

>> thank you all. i just really want to makebo two points. the first is about the house of representatives. i came to know and understand that this is the most unique institution in the cause of liberty and representative democracy in the history of the world. and i was so privileged to be a part of it. i learned to love it, the institution i learned to love the people who love the institution. one of the people who recurs in my book and one of the few people with whom i served whose approval i coveted facet of the bird from westng virginia. but i love senator byrd for the way he loved the institution. and i wanted him to remember me

that a person who did honor to the institution. i would like to believe i succeeded. when i came there, the institution was run by regular order. the democrats are evil, we knew that. [laughter] but they ran a good ship. as a young entrepreneur elite minded member of congress if i could intimate legislation knew what the rules were thanks largely too david hobbs who taught me the ropes. if you know thetu institutional structure and the procedures and edthe protocols and if you dareo believe they will be counted on to win seat and your individual initiative. you can't the house that doesn't have that structure.

no i look at congress today and i feel bad. a i remember the democrats who were in charge of everything. but each and every one of those grumpy old men served this nation in the service of defense. they need the sacrifice of that service. they treated liberty with a very, very gentle touch. they deserve to be respected and they were. but now i've watch the houseful into a different direction. i have seen republican speakers who have fallen for the by the wayside. and i can say i believe it is for one simple reason only.

they left the structure behind. they got ahead of the body. they failed to respect each and every member and their right to participate. and then they would come to the floor with a product that had not been seen or worked on by membersbu at large and try to bully it into passage. it was a heartbreaking thing to watch. i believe that the states of this country preserve their integrity as granted in the constitution to administer their elections. and if the elections are administered fairly and honestly the republicans will regain a majority of the house.

if you wish and a prayer for these new majorities revolt traditions they do so well on every committee of people who have devoted a lifetime career, who have expertise and historical knowledge that should be respected. and if you do that mr. new speaker happy productive institution and it will be to your credit. that will mean you will have to stand up to and administration toto go to the tribe room togetr just a few of us we will work it out and bring it back.

you'll have to say no, we do not do things like that in our body. we do things in an all inclusive and respectful fashion together. we are in institution. and by the way, of all the things i admired about newt gingrich, the one thing i admired the most he understood, congress was a separate and equal body of this government. it's a prerogatives and its obligations needed to be protected. and theyy needed to be administered. and thank you newt for that great lesson. that is what we do. we come here to serve the nation. to do so to gather and in an inclusive of fashion that is respectful of all of our members. all of our members. even those nitwits on the other

side of the aisle should be respected. remember joe cap because you couldn't throw a perfect spiral. his response was i am a starting quarterback in the nfl. i apologize to no one. i was elected by mate citizen friends back home. and i apologize to no one but on their behalf by demand should be respected. we take a personal note, i wrote this book, people think it's about me. it is notly y about me. especially those years in congress. it is about us, we did it together. i was never able to talk about my staff. i cannot see us at. we were a team, we work together, we stuck up for each other and stuck by each other. wrote a letter a compose of the typewriter found myself typing these words.

we loved each other for what we love together. a safe and a prosperous and a happy america. we did that. and we did itt so well with such success of loyalty and loving affection through a system that i called respectful division of labor. that we became known as army guys. and i love that. it's you could have called them. not guys. you could have called them the leslie's if you like good whiskey. but we were army guys. i michelle davis was the first to enlighten us guys that the term army guys is a gender-neutral term. [laughter] we are all armyod guys. i only discovered did we notth before we all broke up, there

were people who were not of our staff. there were other members of congress. there were even a handful of particularlyve enlightened senators who called themselves army guys. so if you are an army guy it is because you love one another for what you love together. a safe, prosperous, and happy america. that is why we work. that is the price by m which we toil. so may i ask you if you are an army guy? will you stand and give yourself a hand? [applause] well dick armey it is fantastic

to have you back in washington. i think this is when your first trips back before since you left town for its amazing you are able to come here. it's a great book it's called leader. truly this is a great, great book. it's a great read about how washington works and what doesn't work. senator phil gramm thank you so much for coming it was really fantastic. we will have drinks after words. and all of the army guys and gals are going to be having dinner after words. so dick armey thank you for all you did for our country. [applause] 's if you are enjoying book tv signed up for our newsletter is in the qr code on the screen to receive a schedule of upcoming programs, author discussions, book festivals and more. book tv every sunday on cspan2 or anytime online apple tv.org. television for serious readers.

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