The Mandate for Leadership, Then and Now (www.thenation.com)

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By 1980, though, conservatism had come to Washington, and the entire organizational landscape had changed. Not only was there Heritage, founded in 1973 with the support of beer magnate Joseph Coors, but also the American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, the American Conservative Union, and more. Edwin Feulner, then the president of Heritage, recalls that the inspiration for Mandate was a meeting at which former treasury secretary William Simon complained that when he got to Washington to serve under Nixon, he had no guidance on any “practical plans” for enacting a conservative agenda. The Heritage Foundation set to work to make sure this wouldn’t happen again under Reagan in 1981.

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[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

It's so insane to me that people always focus on Heritage and Feulner but hardly anybody talks about Weyrich.

I know everybody has their "idea for a podcast," but that's mine. Just an in depth focus on the man who has somehow mostly escaped history's attention despite being the "anti-intellectual" brain behind the new right's focus on social issues.

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