It's the Brian Laird

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,

a hundred years of the American right from 1924 to Project 2025.

In 1924, exactly a hundred 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.

Taxis 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 Continetti, 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

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