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conversation, and i say that as someone who is a historian. so just a couple of minutes of comments before ior turn it over to my friend and colleague, steve moore, who really will be running the show tonight, and that is in 1994 i was president of my university's college republicans. and it was more than a dream as the son of the reagan revolution that dick armey, who would soon be the majority leader, that phil graham's economic expertise along with leader armey's, least for a narrow window in american political history would be ascendant in this town. and while we have to be careful as historians not to dwell in the past, we can as we are on the brink of a red wave -- and i mean that philosophically, not as a partisan -- this year, know that that isn't merely about party registration, about one party being in charge instead of another. it is about the ideas that define us as a people; namely,

freedom, flour ifishing -- flourishing in in the town and this government spending a hell of a lot less money than it does. and so it is a great, great privilege to have dick armey, senator phil graham, one of my political m mentors who a couple yearsnk later he was thinking about running for a different office, he was in louisiana, and i said, senator -- you know, this was before there was a red wave in louisiana -- would you adopt us as our third senatorsome he said, yes, son, you just keep doing what you're doing. so here we are many years later, senator, good to see you. welcome back to heritage. but without further ado, it's also an equally great privilege to have steve the moore back here at heritage foundation to welcome our distinguished fellow and to turn this program over to him. [applause] it's right here so wey

boxes, thank you kevin for the kind introduction and i'm loving this new era at heritage. it's fantastic and his leadership has been amazing. we're going to have some fun today tonight and welcome to our c-span audience as well. --. army is a legend. he's one of the few people in addition to phil graham who actually cut this came to this town to actually make government smaller not bigger. so thank you to both of you and so we have i just got this note from newt gingrich. was the as you all know the speaker of the house and was the one with the army who really engineered the republican revolution in 1994. so i just thought if i may --, i'd love to read this comment from from speaker congrats, and it's really sweet. he says -- army was invaluable as a creative dynamic energetic member when we were in the minority and as a key part.

of the contract of america majority an extraordinary force for good ideas and real reforms and a leader who helped re-elect the house gop majority for the first time in 68 years and helped develop the only four balanced budgets in our lifetime. that's pretty amazing. isn't it his new book provides vivid and wise insights into the legislative process and the house as an institution with gratitude newt gingrich. so that's this really nice tribute to -- army. this is the book if you haven't got if you haven't gotten this book yet. it's a great read. i actually think this book should be read by all people every political science major in america should be reading this book called leader. it really is a a great discussion of how washington really works and how things get done and don't get done in washington. and so we're going to kind of have some fun. telling our -- army stories. there's probably in this rum deck at least 15 or 20 people

who work for you at one time or another and i i say in addition to all of the great. contributions you made directly to policy one of your great contributions was the incredible number of successful people who you mentored including myself. i'm and so my little story about -- army is that i work for -- on the joint economic committee in 1990. 3 and 1994 and i remember that that when that when i was on the committee, and i i decided by the summer of 19 of 1994 that i was going to leave the committee because i just had it, you know if you were a minority remember if you were working for a minority member in the house you might as well have not been there. i mean the democrats were so arrogant at that time after what 40 years of rule, you know, there was like republicans weren't even there. and so i remember i went to -- and i said look, i love working for you --, but i just can't i can't do this anymore. it's pulling my hair out. we're not really having much of

an impact here and and i'll never forget --, you know. turn me said steve. you cannot leave now remember this and you said don't leave now because we're going to take the house in november of 1994. and you know dennis you were part of that revolution as well, and i said --, whatever you're smoking. i want some of it, you know, because it seems so incredibly and for people forget how improbable it seemed and that how many seats did you have to pick up like 60 seats or something like that? and it was it was obviously a tidal wave election and it was in no small part because a newt gingrich and -- army in the contract with american republicans. there's a lesson here when republicans stand for something they win. when they're just the lesser of two evils, which is most of the time they lose and so that was an incredible period and what you all did you and nude and the whole team from 1995 through 2000. it's true all the four only four

balanced budgets in the last 50 years. we did welfare reform. we did the capital gains tax cut all of these incredible things --. army was also for those of the younger people in this room. you were the first inspiration for the flat tax idea. you were the one of the first inspirations for medical savings accounts. you never were with me on the term limits idea. i don't think you like that too much. but anyway that it's just so fantastic to have you here, so i wanted to turn the podium over to senator phil graham who actually i first met in this building, you know back in 1984 85 when when -- when phil graham came up with this crazy idea called the they called it the ground rudman. bill and the ground rubbin bell was basically automatic spending cuts if we couldn't get that deficit down and all of washington, you know had palpatel palpitations over this, but it was one of the few times senator that we actually cut

spending under that ground rugby bill and he has been a crusader for small government as well also hails from the great state of texas. so give a nice warm. welcome to phil graham of texas. thank you, steve. well, nobody told me that i was going to say anything. i will say a few things. president reagan once put his arm around me and said i want you to look me and i said kept weinberger tells me. that your graham rudman is more dangerous than the soviet menace. were you assure me that that's not the case?

and i said yes, mr. president, i'll assure you is not the case. well --, and i were destined to become friends. because we will both from texas. we're both economists. and we both came to washington because we wanted less government and more freedom. they're not a lot of people who come to government with the idea of having less of the very institution. that come to be part of. and the thing that i always found was very interesting and i never lost. my sort of all of it. and that was that --. always had this view that he was like a spy in the soviet union. that had become a leader of the central committee. and was one of the people actually running the soviet. so that when we got together, it was sort of like i was there as

his american handler and he was telling me what was we were actually doing inside the belly of the beast. and i never cease to find that fascinating. i served in washington for quarter of a century. and i dealt with a lot of people. but i can say without any fear of contradiction. that of all the people that i ever serve with -- army was less interested that somebody. decorumi was less interested. in getting credit for things he did than anybody i have ever dealt with in, washington. is for is i could tell his aspiration other than saving america was owning a ford s-150 king ranch version.

and he got it. and -- story is a story that reassures me about america. a -- was from cadoo north dakota. that's right in. i don't have any idea where it is. um, i went to north dakota campaigning once and i had to plug in the car to the tires from freezing. but he came from candor, north dakota. and he became the first republican majority first republican majority leader in 40 years. and he was an indispensable leader in changing america. and implementing the final stones on the reagan revolution and then he retired and went

back to being just in plain citizen. to me that is a reassuring story about america. i once had a guy in china. asked me where did you come from? you know we try to look at leadership in america, and we just can't figure out where you came from. and i tried to explain to him that in america. the greatness of our country is that leaders just come from nowhere? and so people are always saying where are the reagans and where are the -- armies now that we need them? well, i never despair because i know they're out there. they're waiting to be discovered. they're waiting for the right moment. and the only thing that i well let me just say the contract will america.

-- army wrote the contract with america. he gave it the name contract with america. i was the chairman of the republican senatorial committee. we tried to copy it by having our seven more and 94. we won more than seven seats. by the way now i'm not taking anything away from newt gingrich. he grabbed it he ran with it. he made it famous. he deserves all the credit he gets. but -- army was the father of contract with america. my welcome, but let me just say a couple i don't want to oversay my welcome, but let me just say a couple more things. prosecute beginning of the republic -- from thete beginning of the republic, we had wasted money because of an inability to close government facilities,

especially military bases. and so what dick did in a new and totally original idea of his own creation was he came up with the idea of a commission and then a straight up or down vote many congress to approve -- in congress to approve the closing of military bases so that that a it allowed a congressman or a senator to go to the military base as bulldozerrer was pulling up to knock down the gate and lie down on the ground telling his staff and just at the last moment rush in and drag me out. i'll be begging to die, but pull me out. [laughter] and then it'll be gone. and that's exactly what happened. e closed a lot of military bases that should haveav never been built to begin with and were being operated just

draining the blood out of america -- [inaudible] dick was very instrumental in welfare reform. the most successful reform of a government program in american history. why we don't take e that a reform program and apply it to every entitlement program in the federal government, i don't understand. [applause] the average household in the bottom 0% of american income earners gets over $45,000 a year in benefits from the federal government. is there any wonder that you can't get people to work? and we were able to implement a program in an area that was the mostst difficult area where youe got an unmarried woman with

children, a situation where senator warren would say it's the impossible for it to work. well, guess what a? we reformed the program, we set time limits, and within four years 50% of people that had been on program were working. st amazing what smufs -- it's amazing what incentives do. so i'm very happy to be here today to, one, give credit where not enough credit has been given, partly because he lacked the skill to blow his own horn. [laughter] and secondly are -- secondly, to just say to dick that it was a great privilege those years working with you. one of the highlights of my career was getting together with dick to get his spine report, that he was actually running the system that he came to washington to dramatically reform. and so, dick, congratulations.

[applause] >> thank you, senator. those were terrific comments. if just one thing about contract with america, i remember dick talking to you after the republicans, you know, won the congress, and i kind of was apologetic. i said, dick, i didn't really pay a all that much attention to the contract for america, because i never thought the you would win. and youou said, well, steve, if people thought we would win, they never would have signed the contract for. america. [laughter] that was a great, great period. and incidentally, i think you all -- remember your first hundredun hours? what was it, the first hundred hours. you did, i mean, you passed more good legislation than probably in the previous 25 years in that first hundred hours, so it was an amazing revolution. we have -- by the way, i see a lot of new people come in. if, i'd love, if all of you in

this room who at some point in your career worked for dick armey, could you please stand up? that's amazing. [applause] thank you all for being here. [applause] i'll say it again, dick's legacy is really the amazing people he's mentored over the years. okay. so i wanted to call on kevin cramer. we have another -- the second most famous person from north dakota, kevin kramer is senator from the if state of north dakota, and he is also, i believe you are, you are also from cando? he's also -- what are the odds that two of the most famous people in washington could come from cando. senator, welcome. ms. meter dick nor i have -- neither dick nor i are the most famous people, dave osborn, one

of dick's classmates, all-pro running back for the vikings, is from cando. he's from cando. he and dick are classmates. well, this is such an honor, steve, thanks for including me. to be able to participate in something like this, my ten years in congress, this is the highlight. it really is, dick, i mean it. for the handful of you who have read the whole book, susan and i i know dick, i'm sure she proof read it, i might have been the first person in america to read the whole book. i was texting dick can on the airplane, i'm laughing so hard, the people next to me are concerned. [laughter] but just to give you a little context, my daddy and dick can armymy lived across the alley fm one another. and in the book dick tells the story about richard cram if e, the elder richard. there are aoo number of richards in the book, was teaching the

younger richard to climb poles when dick joined the local cooperative as a lineman for a summer job. now, i love the fact that dick had to go to the union shop and work for a co-op, you know? that was the last time he did either of those things -- [laughter] but, but more important than that even, charlie armey, dick's brother whos along with phil graham really are the two the stars of the book, i'd say. they get more ink than anybody else combined. charlie and my daddy were the best man at his wedding. they both married well, stayed married their entire lives. so just to give you a little of that. my dad did teach dick, dick didn't put part in the book. he put the part about climbing poles in the book. he didn't put this. my dad, dick tells me, gave him oneno of his first economics lessons. dick - and dad after work one dy

dick says, what was it, gordy's bar downtown and have a drink. no, maybe he didn't. [laughter] but richard cramer said, dick, you know for the price of a drink at the bar downtown, we could go to the liquor store and get a six pack. and my dad and dick wrote the book onon price theory, literaly wrotet the book on price theory. but the best book dick has ever written is clearly his memoirs. i encourage everybody that's listening and watching to read it. and we celebrate that, for sure. because not only, as steve said, not only is a it a great document asianan of historical moments, significant historical moment here,, but it has countless lessons to all of us on how to govern and better yet how to behave. really. and the two with go hand in hand. i told you i laughed so hard at some points that people were concerned about me sitting on the plane.

but i'm just going to give you a couple of the lessons i learned. first of all -- [laughter] one of the participants that i really laugh -- parts that a i really laughed the hardest is when the wives, the faculty wives accosted you, dick. because he, as a professor, had writtenis this piece that the newspaper picked up that proved that stay-at-home wives were overpaid. well, maybe, not exactly, but it's something like that. something like that. [laughter] they t were paid both for their consumption as well as for their productivity. and so, off course, he's doing all this w wonky stuff. but here's what it reminded me of: short will -- shortly after dick went to congress, his alma mater, university of north dakota -- at the time known as the fighting sioux until ncaa said it was hostile and abuse -- abusive. can you run over and get me a

fighting sioux hockey jersey before they're all gone. [laughter] they were smart enough at und to print a whole bunch of them. but anyway, at that event where he received the coveted sioux award, the emcee was the president of the alumni association and the state republican majority leader of the state legislature in north dakota. and dick gets up and gives this wonderful speech starting out about how important university system is becauseys it not only teaches our children, but it teaches our children's children, right? that's pretty important. that's where the good news ended, and he pivoted to the problem, of course, faculty governance, right? so hem gives this orr asian -- oration on how bad it is and how it's ruining the university system, and he gets all done and gets thislt wonderful ovation fm theth wealthy donors, and earl stringman gets up and says just one quick announcement, the dessert reception thatma was gog to be hosted by the fact umty --

faculty has been canceled due to a recent lack of interest. [laughter] one other thing about north dakota, dick's beloved home state -- and most ofam his famiy still lives there. i was just in cando about a week or two ago and saw some of them. but his preference for free markets, senator graham, really supersedes the populism of north dakota. he would have had a hard time getting elected there. althoughh i think today the he'd haveet a much better chance. but he did come and campaign for me in thee '90s when i was a young partyhe chairman. he was the guy that would come and give the lincoln day speeches when wee had no celebrities from north dakota. we didn't even have a living republican who had been in congress at that time. but we always had to get assurances that helk would not talk about the farm bill or the farm programs concern. [laughter] 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. it just so happened that same day john hoeven, the governor at the time -- now my colleague in the senate -- was to give the keynote address but he got sick. so they called, scrambled in the morning and said could you get dick arnie to possibly fill in -- i dick arnie if -- dick armey to fillan in? i said, this is your chance to say whatever you want about ethanol. [laughter] he got up from -- in front of all of these oilmen. ethanol was such a damn dumb idea, the russians didn't even try it. [laughter] true story. and he got a standing ovation. he didn't have to say another word with. [laughter]e [applause] i did one time try to plead my case for the farm bill in his office. i said,d, dick, you've got to admit free markets don't work in

every situation because agriculture is heavily subsidizing d by all of our competitors. we just are trying to have a fair market or at least level the playing field a little bit. to which he said without thinking about it, contemplate ing worried about my feelings, he never said -- he said i never met a farmer who became one because somebody put a gun to their head. anyway, there's a 39-page indexen on dick's book. i bet i have twice as many pages. i will always be able to go back to the same city. dick took the actions and turned them really into armey's parables.n again, historical as it is, it taught us a lot of things. dick, you're -- i agree with you, i think you should be required reading for every freshman, for sure, that comes congress. for sure. onein thing newt gingrich said o

meet the first time the i ever t him and i told him that you and my if dad grew up together, and he said dick armey is i pitmy of what -- epitome of what one man can do in congress. that should be encouragement for everybody that aspires to do big things. the lessons of your tenure prove that regular order works, regular order works. i've been in congress ten years, i've never seen regular order. your book proves that it works respect every member, when you empower every committee and you honor the chairmen. i'd like to see that return. i think we'd get back to a lot of those principles if, in fact, we just took care of those. but perhaps the greatest economics lesson that you taught us, dick, and that you teach us in your book is that god's grace ish in high demand and high supply, and it's still free. [applause]

one of the most important lessons i take fromom dick's bok is that going home on weekends makes you a better member of congress than going on a codell. that must have hurt some people, but it's true. you inspired me to be a senator as well, and you know that. if you know that. and the reason -- and the way he did it, don't worry, it won't be as blunt as you put it, was because i asked him in 1993, senator graham, if a celebrity from texass as he is would ever run for the open seat vacated by lloyd benson, to which he said i'm not a big enough, you know, to be t a senator, but you have the potential. [laughter] [applause] really, phil graham and i have always -- phil graham and you have always had great aspirations for me. [laughter] dick armey and my father learned a really value a bl lesson

together, that if you work long hours, you get time and a and a half. and then professor armey became congressman armey and leader, and he and his entire team, many of whom you've seen tonight and there are many others, proved that if you work long hours at their job, you don't make extra pay. but just like my dad who earned time and a half, benefiting his family, dick and his team and their hard work have benefited all of our families. and you can live with that assurance, dick. you are a man, to quote your own book, not about you, but i'm going to quote it back to you, a man of great stature as well as a man of great status. there are two men in my life, dick, without whom i would never be a united states senator. they're both named richard, they're both -- [inaudible] and i love you both. [applause]

>> thank you so much, senator. that was fabulous. by the way, i have -- i apologize, i forgot to mention the most important person in room, susan armey. [cheers and applause] so i asked a few people -- would you like to say something about your husband? >> [inaudible] >> all right. [laughter] i can't wait to hear what you have to say. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, susan armey. [applause] >> i wasn't sure if i was supposed to come up or not, but here i am. let me think about this. my husband and i have been married for almost 42 years. [applause] and i've got to say it has never been boring.

[laughter] .. i'm cooking dinner. we had children anyway, quickly i read a few articles on families and i said if you do this, i'll have to think seriously about a divorce so i laughed and he said really? i said i don't know, let's talk about it so we did. he had felt dealings. he had a plan and he knew who he was. he was ann economist and he'd been watching c-span and he would talk to me about this and say you know, there are so many things we could do so i really

didn't want him to do it but he did and i encouraged him to do what he wanted he ran and against all odds, he won. then he said i'll never be in leadership, they have to work all the time. i'm going to be a regular member and i saidd good, that's great because we can get back to normal life. now he's running for leadership. anyway. he was right. i look back and now that we are out of it, did so much. he had the best team in d.c. and they did wonderful work. i look back it's been 20 years since he's been out of congress and i'm amazed.

and it wasid worth it. [applause] >> before we hear from them, there's one person in this room who played a huge role, carrie, where are you? in the stories of that campaign and put everything on the line to thank you for everything you did to make him to success he was. [applause] we are trying to figure out he

was. [laughter] we heard tonight from senator and others on how much of a difference in its true but i tried to figure out what made him different so i thought of a few things. onee is you truly is a hero and he chose to run for congress when everybody said it's cool to try and everybody thought there would be no way he went. he was a mayor of 26 years, billions of dollars but he did it anyway and he said i'm going to win myoc own way. thousands of phone calls, he crashed his way and he got it done but he was honest with me. when he interviewed me because two things. i don't have money and i don't know anybody who does. [laughter] and he was correct on that.

[laughter] he took on all sites once he got to d.c. and the base closing, second term not on one time back and heam and shared the idea with you and said that can't be possible but that makes you want to try that much more so with others on the good yearsor four getting it done got through and continued for many rounds but there are lots of others, he took on school choice when i think our first goal was to get a majority of republicans for now it's an orthodox and it wasn't for a long time. public housing reforms and all the others in those days. add subsidies, protecting

homeschoolers to this day probably shut down congress more than any other subject i've seen. without remarkable success across a variety of issues. trying to think of other house members are senators who left a legacy, left behind a big body of work. it's a very short list, be proud of what you left behind. care that gave remarkable freedom and he did what he thought was right and did what he was told to do and lobbyist couldn't bend him. and what i he believed and town hall meeting over and over again

and it had enough of you. meet me outside and i'll kick your butt. [laughter] he may not have said but. [laughter] that's who he was. not justified, he is a thinker and another thing that sets him apart, he does spend time on it. it's prettyy rare and he's got empty time, don't just gohe to your phone that he would be in the shower were out fishing and run or wherever the a lot of times the ones you would call me and say i've been making, i knew something was up. you have an idea and the university, he have this invisible foot of government, the invisible hand of the market

and it's really well done. he would come up with an idea analyzed for days, turn it into a project in many would change america and he would take the time to think and we are just reacting to self we see on the news and they would take time to think about it weather in north dakota and thinknk about that he was in college or another economic concept. he also analyzed and he would study them and understand them. to this day, i love the guy and spent thousands of hours in meetings with him, i think he probably analyzed you better than anybody else. i'll let you read the book but i think it's spot on. he read widely and remembered what he read from the

economists. thomas soul, milton friedman and he read and studied them and remembered them and learned how to apply them in different situations and could articulate the concept whether it leadership or town hall meeting, he could explain itee better thn anybody else i thinknk i know in many leadership meetings that about something, he would launch into this thing and several famous economists and shut it down. later when he became a believer in christ, he learned to live out his faith in everything he did and that gave him tremendous peace particularly toward the end but a lot of people that should have been his friend.

he did it with a peaceful heart and not many of us could walk through the way he did but also he developed true friendship with people you wouldn't expect and those of you who have been around, they were great buddies and couldn't great onnd anythin, they were great friends. joe mobley, they became friends during domain security. chuck schumer in the day. brooks, the chris just got in the world but he's the only guy who could get away with it. and barney frank, they were friends. his good nature allowed him to say things most people couldn't get away with. one of my favorite stories in the book, is an office building going through and maxine waters

showed up. she was with colleagues, maxine waters might appreciate this and he said i'm so glad to see you. now we can call off the witchhunt. [laughter] she just laughed and her colleagues said you can't take that and she says come on, that was pretty funny. [laughter] so she had a good sense of humor about it, to. [laughter] he often said is good at being histone. i've recently gone back after 20 year absence and as a look at the hill today, it's a very different place but today's politicall entrepreneurs, today what passes as a campaign making incendiary comment, they go on

their favorite tv network and make a skeptical and send out lines of e-mails and raise money and go back to the same thing. it's pretty much a large part that is turned into and we desperately need people. and it's effective on theme committee when entrepreneurs like you did. i hope republic and swing and take majority that they will reopen show they can be a legislature and we need that substance for anyone who wants to understand the way congress works, read the book. it's a classic book people can

learn from and i agree, new freshmen when they come in, it would be worth their time to read it. they need to learn and advocate it because we need more leaders and change america the wayom he did.d. we had a pickup truck in 1984 campaign and said i want to go to washington and he did but we need people to do it every generation so we need a whole new crop. i am proud to have known you and worked with you in all members of our team herehe tonightt, a wonderful group and incredible era. [applause] >> one other quick story.

the book is leader and it's a wonderful read. one story that i was reminded of, worked diligently helping putt together the flat tax idea and you may remember the story but withholding b prominent economists to have a conversation so we brought in art laffer and i think steve forbes missing jack was there and the three of them were huddled on this couch in his office and we were sitting and his statement was judgment, there's not as much brainpower on that s coach if i slept there

alone. [laughter] classic. now we are going to hear from the army, one of the house of the preservatives, army got back. >> thank you all. the house of representatives is the first. i came to know and understand that this is the most unique institution in liberty and representative democracy in the history of the world and i was so privileged to be part of it. i learned to love the people who love the institution, one of the people president occurs in my

book and one of the few people with whom i serve and whose approval i covid it in west virginia. i loved him for the way he loved the institution and i wanted him to remember me as the person who did honor. i'd like to believe i succeeded and igu came there, the institution was run by regular order. democrats were evil and we knew that but they ran a good shift. as a young entrepreneur and member of congress, i could innovate legislation because i knew what the rules were thanks largely to david hobbs who taught me the ropes no the

institutional structure and procedures and protocols if you dare to believe it will be counted on, you can exceed in your divisional initiative. you can't in a world that doesn't pass that structure. i look at congress today. i remember the people in the democrats in charge of everything. but each and every one of those men serving this nation and the service and its success, they knew the sacrifice of that service and understood the cause of liberty they paid for and treated liberty gently and loving and they deserve to be

respected. now i've watched them fall in a different direction. the speaker who's fallen by the wayside and i can say i believe it's one reason, they left the structure behind. they got ahead, failed to respect each and every member and their right to participate and they would come to the floor a product not seen or worked on by members at large and try to bully it in the past. it was a heartbreaking thing to watch. i believe if the state of this country preserve their integrity as granted in the constitution

to administer their elections and if the elections are administered fairly, republicans will regain majority of the house. i believe they do an extraordinary good job administering honest elections, republicans will gain a majority in the senate. i have a wish and a prayer for these new majorities -- run the organization in compliance with protocols. allow each member to be honored andac appreciated and active dog what it is they do so well. you have people who have devoted a lifetime career who have expertise and historical knowledge that should be respected. if you do that, you will retain

your speakership because you will have an honest, happy productive institution. that will mean you will have to stand up too and administration to go and we will work it out. you willl have to do things like that. together we are in institution. and by the way, all the things i admired, the one thing i admired most, be understood. he was separate and equal. the obligation needed to be protective.

thank you for that. we will stick together in a fashion that is respectful of all our members. all our members. even the nitwits on the other side of the aisle should be respected.em i remember because he didn't have a perfect spiral his response was i am a starting quarterback in the end of the, i was elected by my citizens back home and i apologize on their behalf by demands toe be respected. i wrote this book. think of is about me, it's not about. me, it is about us, we dd

it together. i was never able to talk about that. we wereth together i will one dy and post it and i found myself typing these words. we love each other for what we love to get. safe and prosperouss and happy america. we did that and did it so well with such success, loving affection to a system i called respectful, weow became known as dick armey guy and i loved that. you could have called them the

less fees if you like good whiskey that we were dick armey guys and rochelle davis was the first to enlighten us. that's the term, dick armey guys, a gender neutrals term. we discovered before broke up, there were people not of our staff not in our shop, there were other members of congress, even a handful of particularly enlightened senators who call themselves army guys. so if you are an army guy, it's because you love one another or what you love together, safe prosperous and happy america. that's why weth work. so they i ask you if you are an

army guy, will you stand and give yourself a hand? [applause] >> fantastic to have you back in washington, i think this is one of your first so it is amazing and you are able to come, it's a great book called leader, it's a great book, a great read how twashington works, thank you so much for coming, it was fantastic and we will haverw drinks "afterwards" and all of the army guys and gals are going to have dinner "afterwards". dick armey, thank youre for all you did for our country.

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