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A.] Linen, for those very kind words. I'm grateful to the American
Conservative Union, Young
Americans for Freedom, National Review, Human Events, for
organizing this wonderful evening.
When you work in the White House, you don't get to see your old
friends as much as you'd like.
And I always see the Conservative Political Action Conference
speech as my opportunity to "dance
with the one that brung ya."
There's so much I want to talk about tonight. I've been thinking, in the
weeks since the
inauguration, that we are at an especially dramatic turning point in
American history. And just
putting it all together in my mind, I've been reviewing the elements
that have led to this moment.
Ever since F.D.R. and the New Deal, the opposition party, and
particularly those of a liberal
persuasion, have dominated the political debate. Their ideas were
new; they had momentum; they
captured the imagination of the American people. The left held sway
for a long time. There was a
right, but it was, by the '40s and '50s, diffuse and scattered, without a
unifying voice.
But in 1964 came a voice in the wilderness -- Barry Goldwater; the
great Barry Goldwater, the first
major party candidate of our time who was a true-blue, undiluted
conservative. He spoke from