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Hello, I'm Eric Amarklevin here. I'm number 877-381-3811-877.

381-3811. I hope you had a great weekend.

Man, a lot of stuff took place, didn't it?

But I've made an executive decision here right before the show. I've been mulling over one of two issues to start with and I've decided on an issue.

That's a big issue, really. It's not a hot button issue.

And I decided on this because I thought back a couple of days ago when I played this for a group, family and friends,

and they were spellbound, spellbound literally for 17 minutes, listening to what was being said.

Thomas Klingenstein is the chairman of the Klammer Institute. I don't believe I've ever met him. Perhaps I did many decades ago.

But he gave a short address. It was short address in July that was sent to me by a friend and a cop, my attention.

I don't always listen to these, but I listen to this.

And I think it's going to be a wonderful treat for you.

So we're going to start the program with this. We'll have to take a break, then we'll complete it, and then we'll jump in with both feet.

But I think this is a very, very important, very important statement.

So call the family around if you can. If you're in your cars or in your trucks, just put the volume up.

Here we go. Cut 28. Go.

Many leading Republicans and conservatives want someone other than Donald Trump to run for president in 2024.

They say we need someone with Trump's virtue, but without his vices. Fair enough, but this formulation does not get us very far,

unless we have a proper accounting of his virtues. Other Republicans say some version of, I like Trump policies, but I don't like the rest of him.

Disgusted, almost backward. Although Trump advanced many important policies, it is the rest of him that contains the virtue that inspired the movement.

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