Edwin Meese

Richard Mellon Scaife Dies After Investing $620 Million in Conservative Movement Infrastructure

2014-07-04 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Richard Mellon Scaife, the billionaire heir to the Mellon banking and aluminum fortune who became the most important financial architect of the modern conservative movement, died on July 4, 2014, one day after his 82nd birthday, after a battle with cancer. Scaife’s death marked the end of a …

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Edwin Feulner Retires as Heritage Foundation President After 36 Years Building Conservative Movement Infrastructure

2013-04-03 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Edwin J. Feulner Jr. retired as president of the Heritage Foundation on April 3, 2013, after an extraordinary 36-year tenure that transformed Heritage from a small Capitol Hill operation with 9 staff members and a $1 million budget into the most influential conservative think tank in Washington, …

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Hoover Institution Organizational Profile: Leveraging Stanford Prestige for Conservative Policy Legitimacy

1990-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

Comprehensive organizational analysis reveals Hoover Institution as unique conservative think tank exploiting Stanford University affiliation for academic credibility while advancing corporate-conservative agenda. Founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover as library, the institution transformed into policy …

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Attorney General Meese Reveals Iran-Contra Scandal to Public

1986-11-25 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 10/10

Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that proceeds from secret arms sales to Iran were illegally diverted to fund Nicaraguan Contra rebels, publicly exposing the Iran-Contra scandal that had been revealed three weeks earlier by the Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa on November 3. The announcement comes …

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Edwin Feulner Becomes Heritage Foundation President, Beginning 36-Year Tenure Building Conservative Policy Infrastructure

1977-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Edwin J. Feulner Jr., co-founder of the Heritage Foundation in 1973, assumed the presidency of the conservative think tank in 1977, beginning what would become a transformative 36-year tenure that built Heritage from a modest Capitol Hill operation with 9 staff members into the preeminent …

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