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We waited for them to do something but we didnt do anything. You have to do it yourselves. I think thats a good note to close on. Thank you everybody for coming tonight. [applause] bob will be signing his books in the lobby so please join us there. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im Michelle Easton present at the Clare Boothe Luce policy institute and i want to welcome you all to this special lunch featuring Wayne Thorburn and his great new book called red state and insider story of how the gop came to dominate texas. You may be wondering why is the pres...

What a speaker ought to be able to accomplish. Not to say that whatever the speaker accomplishes or has accomplished during his term is a oneman show. It most certainly is not and in this room today are people who shared with me the agonies of trying to figure out what on earth can we do in this situation and one of them is david bern. One of them is tom foley and one of them is dan rostenkowski. The speakership under rayburn was something that i guess entered my consciousness as the model of how a speaker should be. Sam rayburn saw National Needs and he made things happen. He was an activist ...

There was a great show of support Saturday for Afghan refugees in central Iowa.