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RIPON FORUM


Volume 59, No. 1

February 2025

UPCOMING EVENTS


  • The Ripon Society’s Honorary Co-Chairs, Rep. Frank Lucas (OK-03) and Rep. August Pfluger (TX-11), will discuss the effort being led by President Trump and the GOP to change the way business is done in Washington, DC., including reforms being proposed by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), efforts to shore up security along our southern…


  • GOP Women Series

    April 7, 2025

    As part of our quarterly GOP Women Series, Anita McBride will discuss her groundbreaking book, Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America’s History-Making Women, and the evolutionary role of the first lady and its historic importance on the American presidency. Following the program, Anita will autograph copies of the book for those in attendance.


TEDDY TWEETS


  • “The really valuable—the invaluable—reform is that which in actual practice works” Metropolitan May 1917

  • “The world is getting better, but it has got a long way to travel before it becomes perfect.” Address at Aberdeen, South Dakota April 6, 1903

  • “The true doctrine to this nation, as to the individuals composing this nation, is not the life of ease, but the life of effort.” Speech in Provincetown, Massachusetts August 20, 1907