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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. It's episode 2743 of the Tom Wood Show, the great David Stockman.

I'm old enough to remember him from the Reagan administration. And because he was such a young pup in the Reagan administration, he's still alive and kicking here with us.

Thank goodness, because he's one of the few sensible people around who has any kind of Washington

connection past or present. He served in the U.S. Congress. He served as OMB director, director of the

Office of Management and Budget under President Reagan. My favorite story is the Reagan people

reached out and asked how would he like to be Secretary of Energy and he said well I'd really

like OMB and Reagan said something like I'm not exactly sure what that is we'll get back to you

so anyway and of course David's had a great private sector career since then and he writes he edits

he publishes David Stockman's Contra Corner, which I highly recommend David Stockman's

contraCorps.com. David, too bad we have to really scramble to come up with something to talk about

today, but welcome back. Right. Well, thank you for the good introduction, Tom. And I want to point out,

though, that I'm still young enough to be here, even though, you know, I served in the administration way back then.

But it's kind of interesting. The one credential you didn't mention it, I was a member of the

National Security Council. And during that period of time, the whole battle between Washington

and the Iranians got underway. Well, I didn't know that.

Yes, the big event was the Beirut bombing.

I was going to ask you about that.

Okay.

The Beirut bombing in 1982.

And I'll give you a little vignette here about the difficulty of, let's say, operating an empire

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