Think-Tanks

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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American Enterprise Association Moves to Washington to Oppose New Deal, Precursor to AEI Think Tank

| Importance: 7/10

The American Enterprise Association (AEA) moves its main offices from New York City to Washington, D.C. in 1943 to more effectively oppose the New Deal and capitalize on Congress’s need for help making sense of its vastly increased wartime portfolio. AEA was founded in 1938 by a group of New …

American Enterprise Association Lewis H. Brown Johns-Manville Corporation Henry Hazlitt Bristol-Myers +5 more american-enterprise-institute aei think-tanks new-deal-opposition corporate-funding +1 more
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American Liberty League Founded by Du Pont Family and Corporate Elite to Oppose New Deal

| Importance: 8/10

On August 22, 1934, the American Liberty League is announced in Washington, D.C., as a purportedly bipartisan organization to defend the U.S. Constitution against “radical” New Deal policies, with Jouett Shouse appointed as president. The League’s formation represents the first …

Irénée du Pont John Jacob Raskob Jouett Shouse Al Smith John W. Davis +4 more corporate-resistance new-deal propaganda institutional-capture think-tanks +2 more
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