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 o

[laughing] [applause] really phil gramm and i have always come phil gramm and you have always had great aspirations for me. dick armey and my father learned a really valuable lesson together climbing poles, that if you work long hours you get time in half. and then professor armey became congressman armey and leader armey, 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 an extra penny. but just like my dad who earn time and a half benefit of his family, dick and his team in their hard work have benefited all of our families. and you can live with that assurance, dick. you are a man to culture of book, not about you, but i'm going to court 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. both named richard, they are both from cando, and i love you both. [applause] >> thank you so much. that was sightless. by the way i apologize i forgot to mention the most important person in

[laughter] >> really, phil gramm and you have always had high expectations for me. if you work long hours you get time and a half. and then professor became congressman and leader and he is an entire team many whom you've seen tonight and there are many others. proved if you work long hours at their job, you don't make an extra penny. but just like my dad who earned time and a half, benefited his family dick and his team and their hard work and benefited all of our families but you can live with that assurance, dick. you are a man to quote your own but i'md about you going to quote it back to you but a man of great stature as well as a man of great status. there two men in my life i would never be a united states senator. they are botho. named richard ad i love you both. [applause] [cheering] x thank you so much senator print that was fabulous. by the way i apologize i forgot to mention the most important person in this book, susan armey thank you. [cheering] [applause] so, i asked a few people would you like to say something about your husband? [laughter] alright,

give a warm welcome to 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 once put his arm around me and said look me in the eye, he said cat weinberger tells me that your gramm redmond is more dangerous than the soviet menace. will you assure me that is not the case? i said yes, mister president, i will assure you that is not the case. dick and i were destined to become friends because we were both from texas, both economists and we both came to washington because we wanted less government and more freedom. there is not a lot of people who come to government with the idea of having less of the very institution they come 4. the thing i found very interesting, i never lost my order far of it and that was that dick always had this view that he was a thigh in the side of the soviet union that had become a leader of the central committee and was one of the people actually running the central committee so that when we got together it was sort of like i was there as his american

[applause] phil gramm and you have always had great aspirations for me. a dick army and my father learned a very valuable lesson together that if you work long hours you get time and a half and then professor army became the congressman and theater and in theni entire team many of whm you see tonight and many others proved if you work long hours at their job you don't make extra but like my dad first time and i his family and you can live with that assurance you are a man to quote your own book but i'm going to quote it back to you. they are both named richard. [applause] >> i forgot to mention the most important person in the room, susan army. [applause] would you like to say something tabout your husband? i wasn't sure if i was supposed to come up or not. but here i am. let me think about this. we've been married for almost 42 years. [applause] and i've got to say it's never been boring. we've onlyai been married about two and a half years. i think i could do a lot of good if i ran for congress and i said what, i'mre cooking dinner. we have children her

i am so delighted to hear about book and to see phil gramm. i have heard this analysis from aei in the past and i don't know why we can't have a convention that every year when the census puts out their analysis of the data there should be a companion report the tax and transfer adjusted poverty report may be when the republicans take the house they could do something about that here is. my question i about what is going to be the left's reaction to and immediate thought you know they're going immediately go to ethnic groups as to what's been story for them and without going into too much detail. i would like to know do you deal with that in the book and do you good the story back to a little bit of you know we can't you know we don't do more than data will support but nevertheless same basic story applies to african because that we have a long enough history on that and they have improved vastly in terms of their unemployment. i mean their poverty rates they've improved vastly in terms of their family incomes and so there's still some differe

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senator phil gramm thanks so much come from texas. it was fantastic avenue and will have drinks afterwards and all of the armey guys and gals are going to be having dinner afterwards so dick armey thank you for all you did for our country you are a great, great patriot. [applause] >> if you are enjoying booktv then sign up for our newsletter using the qr code on the screen to receive a scheduled upcoming programs can author discussion, book festivals and more. booktv every sunday on c-span2 or anytime online at booktv.org. television for serious readers. >> welcome. i just want to thank you for joining us today. i'm cliff may, fdd founder and president and we're really pleased to have you here today joining us for this event, cohosted with the center for a new american security to mark the release of michael gordon's excellent new book, "degrade and destroy: the inside story of the war against the islamic state, from barack obama to donald trump." because michael has had exceptional access to top u.s. officials and military commanders

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and then came phil gramm. 98, i believe, pushing for the repeal of glass-steagall, separating the bankingustry from the investments. that led to all of those crazy mortgages and the biggest financial decline since the great depression of the 30's. 2008, when our financial system collapsed. now they are talking like if they get into power they want to sunset social security and medicare and have it be on a renewal basis every five years. host: it's a proposal by a couple of senators, i don't know if it's a widespread republican policy, it's a proposal. caller: but they have been after social security for years. right before the financial collapse, bush wanted to privatize social security. if that had happened and then the financial lapse came along, it would have wiped us out. all of the americans on social security should not vote for the republicans. they have been after that for years since it was passed. host: you brought up president clinton, shouldn't he take responsibility for nafta? caller: i was very angry with him. i remember clinton, hillary clinton at the time said something li

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