Big thanks, fred, for your shirt inspection sort introduction. I think you did a good job without getting too carried away. Thank you to the city club for the opportunity to be with all of you today. Did has been a longtime friend, supporter, and i did not know this was your luncheon. Thank you for having me here. , rightere six years ago before i became speaker. I came to your indication, to an economic speech where i called on the president s to fire his economic team. They did not like that. They savaged me after the. I think i was right. Here is six years later, no longer the speaker of the house after spending some 25 years. As i told the students at notre dame, notre dame gave Vice President biden and i an award. And you know that is a let word. In english, it means rejoice. Exactly what i have done every day since i left. [laughter] people stop me and think im going to go back into the government. I had a cab driver wondering if i was running for the senate last year. Oh, no, no
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