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Speaker 1: Well, I look at a great many familiar faces, and

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Speaker 1: I'm delighted that you're all here today, And I want

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Speaker 1: to ask you back when the Conservative movement consisted of

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Speaker 1: a few outspoken senators and representatives and a couple of

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Speaker 1: after dinner speakers. Who ever thought that the White House

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Speaker 1: would host a birthday party for human Events? Because we

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Speaker 1: are all old friends and comrades in arms, if you

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Speaker 1: don't mind my saying so, professional colleagues, I got my

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Speaker 1: first byline in Human Events in nineteen sixty one. I

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Speaker 1: hardly have to recite for you the human Events story.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I'm old enough to go

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Speaker 1: back to when Human Events was about newsletter size hadn't

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Speaker 1: grown up to be a tabloid sized paper. But that

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Speaker 1: remarkable fortieth anniversary issue does a wonderful job of saying

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Speaker 1: all that needs to be sung. The articles there by

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Speaker 1: your founders Frank Hannigan and James Wick, and by notables

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Speaker 1: like Douglas MacArthur, Barry Goldwater, Herbert Hoover, Bill Buckley, as

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Speaker 1: well as page after page of tributes from important American

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Speaker 1: political figures. All of this is a remarkable testimony not

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Speaker 1: only to the extraordinary journalistic enterprise that is human events,

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Speaker 1: but to the strength of the id ideas that human

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Speaker 1: events has always advocated, individual opportunity, limited government, free markets,

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Speaker 1: traditional values, and the moral imperative of resisting totalitarianism and

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Speaker 1: furthering the cause of freedom. America's seen enormous changes in

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Speaker 1: the last few years, politically, intellectually, and culturally, all in

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Speaker 1: the direction of those ideas that you've stood for for

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Speaker 1: so long and so bravely. And I am sure when

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Speaker 1: historians look to find the underlying reasons for such change,

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Speaker 1: they're going to focus on human events and all the

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Speaker 1: remarkable people that have been associated with you over the years.

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Speaker 1: A new film that's out, Protocol satirizes the failure of

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Speaker 1: people in Washington to quote to say what you think, unquote, well,

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Speaker 1: I think what's made human events so amazing, so important

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Speaker 1: to our recent history has been your willingness always to

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Speaker 1: keep the rules of civility, but never to be afraid

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Speaker 1: to challenge the conventional wisdom, break the Washington protocols and

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Speaker 1: say exactly what you think. He kind of a confessional

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Speaker 1: mode here, I might as well tell you that back

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Speaker 1: there in those days when I started reading it, when

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Speaker 1: it was just pamphlet size. That's part of what help

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Speaker 1: me quit being a New Deal Democrat. But many people

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Speaker 1: who've been part of the human events family have been

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Speaker 1: important to your success over the years, political figures like

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Speaker 1: the late John Ashbrook, contributors like Moury Riskin, Stan Evans,

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Speaker 1: and so many others. But certainly two people must be

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Speaker 1: singled out today for the sprightly and informative makeup of

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Speaker 1: human events, and it's plain old fashioned political power. And

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Speaker 1: that's Tom Winter and Allan Riskin. I think you know

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Speaker 1: that Alan and Tom are always telling me to stick

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Speaker 1: to the conservative gospel and not listen to too much

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Speaker 1: of the conventional Washington wisdom. And you know that sound advice.

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Speaker 1: But I was thinking before I got here today about

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Speaker 1: one occasion when I did listen to the image makers

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Speaker 1: and the pragmatists. They advised me a few years back

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Speaker 1: to make my Washington singing debut and to do a

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Speaker 1: solo number in one of the Gridiron dinner skits. Now,

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Speaker 1: of course, I had spent some years in the entertainment business,

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Speaker 1: where I learned that if you can't sing or dance,

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Speaker 1: you wind up as an after dinner speaker. They leave

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Speaker 1: me in Hollywood. No one asked me to sing, And

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Speaker 1: I really wasn't that worried at the Gridiron, because I

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Speaker 1: remembered Bob Hope used to say there were certain advantages

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Speaker 1: to being president. He said it was only after Ike

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Speaker 1: stopped being president that he found out who he could

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Speaker 1: really beat at golf. So I wasn't too worried when

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Speaker 1: I went down to the Gridiron dinner that night with

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Speaker 1: my warm and vibrant rendition of Manyana, and then I

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Speaker 1: sort back and waited for the brave notices to roll in.

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Speaker 1: And I'm still waiting. But in thinking about this reception today,

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Speaker 1: I had what I thought was a perfect song to

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Speaker 1: describe the growth of the conservative movement and the gallant

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Speaker 1: work of human events and the warm support that you've

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Speaker 1: given me in the past. And I thought that maybe

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Speaker 1: in front of such old friends, I might get away

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Speaker 1: with an encore. But apparently, in view of my earlier experience,

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Speaker 1: some of the pragmatists and image makers were less than enthusiastic.

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Speaker 1: So just this one time, I hope you'll let me

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Speaker 1: take their advice and stick to just reciting the words

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Speaker 1: of a great little Frank Sinatra number that I think

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Speaker 1: is very appropriate for a human events birthday party. They

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Speaker 1: all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world

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Speaker 1: was round. They all laughed when Edison recorded sound. They

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Speaker 1: all laughed at Wilbur and his brother when they said

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Speaker 1: that man could fly. They told Marconi wireless was a phony.

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Speaker 1: It's the same old cry. They laughed at me, and

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Speaker 1: you said we were reaching for the moon, but hey,

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Speaker 1: you came through. And now they'll have to change their tune.

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Speaker 1: They all said, we never could be happy. They laughed

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Speaker 1: at us, and how but ho ho ho, who's got

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Speaker 1: the last laugh? Ah? Ha ha, who's got the last time? Now?

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Speaker 1: How now you know a You'd think that by this

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Speaker 1: time i'd have known enough to get off while you're

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Speaker 1: still laughing. But I can't quite resist reflecting here on

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Speaker 1: that campaign that first brought so many of us together.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you remember a hot July night in San

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Speaker 1: Francisco some years ago when we did what was said

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Speaker 1: to be impossible and nominated a conservative candidate for the presidency.

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Speaker 1: And Barry Goldwater said that night, but whatever may lie ahead,

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Speaker 1: we Conservatives must continue in our work quote until our

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Speaker 1: cause has won the day, inspired the world, and shown

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Speaker 1: the way to a tomorrow worthy of all our yester years. Well,

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Speaker 1: that of course is still our mission. Because of human

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Speaker 1: events and people like yourselves, we've made a great beginning,

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Speaker 1: and with your help we will continue. Thank you, and

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Speaker 1: God bless you all. Eight