Goldwater

AEI Faces IRS Investigation After Baroody's Control of Goldwater Campaign

| Importance: 7/10

Representative Wright Patman subpoenas American Enterprise Institute’s tax papers and the Internal Revenue Service initiates a two-year investigation of AEI after William J. Baroody Sr. and several top AEI staff, including Karl Hess, moonlight as policy advisers and speechwriters for Barry …

William J. Baroody Sr. American Enterprise Institute Barry Goldwater Wright Patman Internal Revenue Service (IRS) +2 more american-enterprise-institute aei irs tax-exempt political-campaigns +2 more
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Goldwater Presidential Campaign Mobilizes Business Coalition and Establishes Conservative Infrastructure

| Importance: 8/10

The 1964 Barry Goldwater presidential campaign galvanizes a grassroots coalition of businesspeople, Southerners, Midwesterners, and libertarians who feel sidelined by the Republican establishment, establishing political infrastructure and strategies that become standard tenets of Republican politics …

Barry Goldwater John M. Ashbrook William A. Rusher F. Clifton White John Birch Society +1 more conservative-movement goldwater business-political-mobilization john-birch-society southern-strategy +1 more
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