Conservative Activist Paul Weyrich Dead at 66
WASHINGTON conservative activist Paul Weyrich, who coined the phrase more moral and social conservatives helped to transform itself into a powerful force within the Republican Party, died on Thursday. He was 66.Weyrichs death was announced by the Heritage Foundation, and conservative think thank that has helped create.Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan said Weyrich was instrumental in the development of conservative thought in America.
As the first chairman of the leader of the Heritage Foundation and other conservative organizations Weyrichs service concluded and most advanced Republican Partys fundamental values of limited government and lower taxes and individual responsibility Duncan added.
Lee Edwards of the Heritage Foundation scholar told Weyrich friend and has suffered from health problems in recent years and has had both legs amputated.He was devoted to conservative and patriot,an outstanding strategist, Edwards said.He have a strong sense of humor that all workers times.At Weyrich was the death of chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation's Conservative Think Tank.His latest comments published on the website of the Foundation on Thursday next big date on conservatism agenda for the future.
Weyrich Racine Wis was born which has its beginning as a reporter in Milwaukee.He came to Washington in 1967 as press secretary Sen.Gordon Allotta Republican in Colorado. Six years later he founded the Heritage Foundation, and next year the Free Congress Foundation. In 1979 the collection of religious Weyrich spoke of a moral majority in the country. The name stuck. Over the next decade, a group chaired by the Rev.Jerry Falwell power as a movement conservative political force.
At the end of 1990 was Weyrich complains that I no longer believe that there is a moral majority.If told us that Bill Clinton could be hunted office of months ago.Tony Perkins president of the Family Research Council said Weyrich didn't over intellectualize about Christians jumping into the fray.He recognized early that the fray had jumped onto us.
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