It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. Now we continue with our WNYC

Centennial series, 100 Years of 100 Things. Thing number three, as the Republican Convention begins today, 100 years of 100 things. Thing number three, as the Republican Convention begins

today, 100 years of the American right from 24 to Project 2025. In 1924, exactly 100 years ago,

Republican President Calvin Coolidge, who would win that year's election and serve four more years,

spoke at the White House against the idea of taxation.

The expenses of the government reach everybody.

Taxes take from everyone a part of his earnings and force everyone to work for a certain part of his time for the government.

President Calvin Coolidge, in 1924, about 10 years after the federal income tax constitutional

amendment was passed, and a century ago. We will start in 1924 now. We will play more archival audio clips

as we move in time toward the present, take some oral history calls from some of you and talk

to our guest who is perfect for this centennial topic. Matthew Contonetti, director of domestic

policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute,

generally considered a center-right think tank and author of books, including one as if it was

written for this segment, called The Right, the 100-year history of the War for American Conservatism.

Matthew was last on the show when the book came out in 2022 and back today in this

context. Matthew, thank you for your time today with everything going on. Welcome back to WNYC.

Hello, Brian. Thanks for having me. It's good to be here. And before we talk about 100 years of history

and where conservatism might be going in the next 100 years, I want to acknowledge again that

there was an assassination

attempt against a presidential candidate yesterday or Saturday in which a bystander was killed

and two others critically injured. And so even as we talk about other things as well on the show today,

it can't just be business as usual, especially when we talk political things like this,

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