those of you who are here in the audience those of you who have joined online on c-span. welcome. this is going to be a riveting conversation and i say that as someone who is a historian. so just a couple of minutes of comments before i 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 a son of the reagan revolution. that army would soon be the majority leader. that phil graham s economic expertise along with leader armies at 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 defin
that phil graham s economic expertise along with leader armies at 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. flourishing and this 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 army. senator phil graham my one of my political mentors who a couple years later. he was thinking about running for a different office. he was in louisiana, and i said senator, you know, this is before there was a red wave in louisiana, would you adopt us as as our third senator? he said yes, son. you just keep doing what you re doing. so here
i was president of my university s college republicans. and it was more than a dream as a son of the reagan revolution. that army would soon be the majority leader. that phil graham s economic expertise along with leader armies at 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. flourishing and this 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 army. senator phil graham my one of my political mentors who a couple years later. he was thinking about running for a different office. he was in louisiana, and i said senator, y
that phil graham s economic expertise along with leader armies at 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. flourishing and this 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 army. senator phil graham my one of my political mentors who a couple years later. he was thinking about running for a different office. he was in louisiana, and i said senator, you know, this is before there was a red wave in louisiana, would you adopt us as as our third senator? he said yes, son. you just keep doing what you re doing. so here
that phil graham s economic expertise along with leader armies at 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. flourishing and this 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 army. senator phil graham my one of my political mentors who a couple years later. he was thinking about running for a different office. he was in louisiana, and i said senator, you know, this is before there was a red wave in louisiana, would you adopt us as as our third senator? he said yes, son. you just keep doing what you re doing. so here