Movement, leaders in it, and their recollections leading up to where we are today. Please join me in welcoming our good friend, mallory factor. Valerie. [applause] thank you so much. What a great introduction. What i good place to think about the conservative movement, the heritage foundation. Want to thank carriage for its support of the big tent project. Many people at heritage are instrumental in deserve my thanks starting with ed fall there for his early support of this project. Thank you for forever urging me on board. Contributing a critical fact chapter on reagan. The head towards four key observation on the early version of this manuscript most of all, i am grateful for heritage is fine work and conserving and renewing principles of the american founding. My friends, i grew up in bridgeport, conn. , the home of Phineas Taylor barnum. P. T. Barnum, as he was known, was the greatest circus showman in history. Let me paint a picture for you of how it was when i was a boy in an ind