>> morton blackwell i dedicated the book to him, a good friend. i'm known in the movement as 002. i'm the longest conservative except for the doctor, 001. and bill buckley, robert falwell, all dead and i'm there on the national level longer than lee edwards. i've known him since 1961. he called me on the phone let's have a lunch with a young conservative. you don't know him, he didn't know you, so we had a nice lunch and liked him so well invited morton back 10 days later for another lunch he and i. morton said i spoke magic words to him and the magic words, i said morton i want you to come work with me and help me build the conservative movement and at that time taking a pay cut. and i gave him a little pay increase. after some years he left and ended up working for ronald reagan in the white house and then after that, he left and started something called the leadership institute. and it's a -- they're almost no organization i can think of that's more important to the conservative movement than the leadership institute. they've trained well over a quarter of a million young peopl

who is it morton blackwell i dedicated the book to morton. he's a dear friend. oh, and i'm a known in the conservative movement as double otu, which means i've been active at the national level longer than ever. living conservative, except dr. lee edwards, who's double or what? barry goldwater and bill buckley and brant senior and falwell robertson recently all did you know so i'm a i'm an active at the national level longer than everybody except dr. lee edwards. so lee is a dear friend i've known since 1961. and he calls me on the phone one day and says, let's have lunch with this young conservative of you need to know him. he doesn't know you. you don't know him. so we had nice lunch at the mayflower and so i liked the lunch money. so well invited. morton back ten days later for another lunch as he and i. and at the end the lunch, morton said, i spoke magic words to it and the magic words i spoke to him. i said, morton, i want you to come work with and help me build the movement. and he said at that he would taking a pay cut. i gave him a l

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