Reagan's Uneasy Alliance
A couple of weeks after Ronald Reagan won the presidential election, the bodies of two young people were found on the streets of San Salvador. One bore a sign around its neck: "With Reagan we...
...They are trying to use it as the whole thing...
...In order to follow the resolution of this struggle, it is necessary to understand who the forces are in what is being newly defined as today's "politically relevant spectrum...
...The Traditionals, for example, understood the necessity of renegotiating the Panama Canal treaties, and limited their agitation to seeing that nothing important was given away...
...REAGAN'S UNEASY ALLIANCE 1. Guardian (New York), November 19, 1980...
...The establishment is dying, and so they've got to show that despite the success we have had in foreign policy and in the election, they've got to show that it is wrong just because of [Watergate...
...But as allies of the ruling class, they will most likely be the magnet of consensus if the current period of instability comes under control...
...It also funds General Comments: This foundation and re- such rightist evangelical organizations as lated Mellon-Scaife foundations are the in- Young Life and the Fellowship of Christian struments of influence of Richard Mellon Athletes...
...5. By contrast, most Americans believe in the "traditional values of honesty, decency, hard work, competition, advancement, religious faith, compassion for suffering and social cooperation...
...To what degree is the Administration adhering to or breaking with the strategic lineages of the past...
...Most prominent among their intellectuals is Irving Kristol, an ex-trotskyist turned anticommunist, who proudly wears his recently acquired neo-conservative label...
...Stop ERA) Its purpose is to rally support against the equal rights amendment and generally serves as a center of anti-feminist activity...
...2 9 Part of that report included a "hit list" of domestic groups that should be investigated...
...Large publication list...
...Eschewing the suave erudition of a William Buckley, it hankered after the ten-cent homilies of George Wallace in his populist heyday...
...Conservatives) 2. The New Right 3. The Neo-Conservatives (a.k.a...
...underclass," which are part of the rhetoric of the Neo-Conservatives...
...Spawned in the McCarthy era, they took up the task of cleaning the "reds" out of the unions, schools and churches, but they clung to the American principles of economic and social justice...
...What, in fact, are the objective limits to power in this period of crisis and uncertainty...
...6 Further on down the iceberg, Reagan draws the line in El Salvador because it is a "test case" of U.S...
...See box, What They Believe...
...Government social programs are OK., but they should not "fuel the fires of egalitarianism," not be wasted on the "intractable problems" of the "underclass" or increase the influence of the New Class...
...To that end, he plans to edit a new magazine funded by the rightwing J. Howard Pew Freedom Trust for circulation among the clergy...
...3. The crisis of authority is not the result of capitalism or the governing elites or events like Vietnam or racial conflict...
...the Heritage Founda- Christian Athletes and the Campus Crusade...
...2. Allen Nairn, "Controversial Reagan Campaign Links with Guatemalan Government and Private Sector Leaders," a research memorandum (Washington, D.C.: Council on Hemispheric Affairs, 1980...
...22 NACLA ReportJulylAugust 23 If reindustrialization is to mean anything, it must mean building up the muscle of the American industry, exposing it to competition, foreign and domestic, while having the wisdom and courage to let the losers die and to help the winners with sensible tax incentives and regulation...
...law and order on the streets...
...And in whose interest...
...A War on Poverty was to bring a multi-class peace through job training, "community action" and other social programs...
...Terrorism motif of Reagan Administration has roots in CSIS (interview by Michael Ledeen, editor of Washington Quarterly, with a defected Czech colonel was basis of theory of Soviet-coordinated terrorist network although interview took place 12 years after defection and intensive CIA grilling during which no such information came to light...
...It has tacitly sanctioned increased repression by rightist regimes and fostered a siege mentality in leftist countries...
...Defense spending, which was to help the economy, had contributed to a negative balance of payments, inflation and unproductive investment...
...The Internationalists agree that new systems of social control are necessary JulylAugust 2324 NACLA Report in the uneasy times ahead...
...2 6 The New Right's man in the White House and long-time Reagan aide, Deputy Press Secretary Lyn Nofziger, has played an important role recently in getting jobs for New Rightists at the intermediate levels of the new administration...
...In the next decade, they were followed by the major bank2122 NACLA Report ing institutions...
...Furthermore, the frantic flurrying from one crisis to another is not leadership...
...Be that as it may, the Reagan Coalition is the mechanism of the hour through which the new dominant sectors of the ruling class must attempt to reach accord...
...The platform of the Republican Party condemned the "Marxist government" of Nicaragua...
...point of coalescence in Reagan Coalition...
...Early in his career, Nixon was their champion -that is, before he made his deals with the Internationalists...
...By extension, each projects its own vision as the best solution for the survival and prosperity of the system as a whole...
...Haig fires the ambassador to Saudi Arabia for telling Senator Percy that remarks Haig offered on television had made him (the ambassador) "want to throw up...
...It advocates a strong defense against world-wide communism...
...Growing discontent and popular protest made it apparent in the early 60s that minority communities and certain rural parts of the country wanted their share of the prosperity...
...But the "how" of all this is very problematic...
...Ibid., Chapter 2. 14...
...There are objective limits to power, it was said...
...2. The current crisis is cultural, not economic...
...After the purges of Socialists and Communists in the 50s, the leaders of the labor movement were flattered, wooed and beaten into a cooperative partnership in the growing welfare state...
...They have moldered for decades in community PTAs and small town bible associations, marginalized ever further by changing social values...
...Scaife gave $1.7 million to The Coors family has also been an important Institute for Contemporary Studies, a policy In- contributor to the Moral Majority...
...For ten years after the Goldwater campaign, New Rightists drifted from the Republicans toward George Wallace, lacking any sense of purpose or identity...
...It was the New Rightists who attacked the Carter Administration for "surrendering the Panama Canal to a tin-horn dictator...
...church hierarchy has been captured by the "New Class" and must be reclaimed...
...Tough men protecting their women...
...XI, no...
...Another group is the Christian Broadcasting System, responsible for the 700 Club of Pat Robertson...
...We have to cement together a sense of social order...
...Liaison between the four horsemen of the New Right and President Reagan is Reagan's close friend, Sen...
...envoy Phillip Habib is in the area and throws the Middle East into turmoil...
...Alan Wolfe and Jerry Sanders, "Resurgent Cold War Ideology: The Case of the Committee on the Present Danger," paper prepared for a conference on "The United States, U.S...
...the elites have lost the confidence of the people...
...Sklar and Lawrence, Who's Who...
...They lean toward the subtle, institutional approach, and certainly have little in common with the Bible-thumpers...
...James Buckley, under secretary of state...
...weakness...
...Samuel P. Huntington, Trilateral Commission Report, "The Crisis of Democracy" out...
...criticisms of defense spending and communism: the Left and terrorism...
...5. Washington Post, June 27, 1981...
...To wit: On the day of the inauguration, Secretary of State Alexander Haig attempts to establish himself as the "vicar" of foreign policy with a detailed memo presented personally to the President...
...In short, trilateralism...
...Key Forces in the Coalition In the post World War II era, the Democratic Party has been the dominant political expression in the United States...
...How does it, or should it, relate to the nation-state, to the Common Market, or to the models of world trade...
...One of its graduates was elected senator from Oklahoma in 1980...
...1 4 Paul Weyrich is a political operator, a selfdescribed "political mechanic" with little knowledge or interest in public policy or political thought...
...Strongly anti-communist...
...Vietnam was theirs as well...
...Although it never successfully controlled the presidency for longer than eight year intervals, it maintained virtually permanent sway in Congress and its policies and programs dominated the consciousness of the population...
...While economically invincible, the political influence of the trilateralists is weakened at this moment by the internal divisions that became apparent even during the Carter Administration...
...The President can't ignore the sluggish entrenched bureaucracy or the legal constraints...
...Ibid., p. 4. 21...
...spokespeople about the Soviet threat serve only to create a new climate for foreign policy...
...Differences between the cold-war liberals and the expanded internationalist "establishment" began to come into focus in the mid-60s...
...They know he took over California and turned it into a state with AAA bond ratings...
...Source of Income: Ely Lilly family fortune, from * SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION pharmaceuticals...
...Conservative Digest, April 1981, p. 40...
...Bush is replaced as crisis manager by committees of advisers from the State Department, the National Security Council, the CIA, the President's staff...
...In particular, the Conservatives, Neo-Conservatives and Internationalists are content with establishing a new ruling class coalition, while the New Right has eyes to rule alone after taking over the House of Representatives and the presidency in 1982-84 or, should it take longer, by the end of the decade...
...4 2 The Internationalists regard a strong NATO alliance as the cornerstone which will guarantee future security...
...CSIS-related persons in the Reagan Administration: Richard Allen, National Security Adviser (cofounder of CSIS) Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Roger Fontane, National Security Council, Latin America Alexander Haig, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Foreign Relations Advisory Board J. Wm...
...The advisory board at CIS includes both Hatch and Senator John East (R-SC), a freshman New Rightist, described by his patronJesse Helms as more of a JulylAugust 1718 NACLA Report rightist than he is...
...Why What They Believe is Important To rule through the end of the century requires a harmonizing vision...
...The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace The Goldwater campaign in 1964 was extremely important for both tendencies of the Right...
...Abandoning the trappings of the Democratic Party, many of them regrouped, opening talks with the Republicans...
...Each is a smaller coalition of groups, organizations and individuals, reflect- ing their own specific economic, political, social or regional interests and, thus, orientation...
...tion ($3.8 million...
...Murray Weidenbaum, head of the Council of Economic Advisers...
...In the Congress, there is Moynihan, and the new favorite, Colorado Senator Gary Hart, who is being wooed to the Neo-Conservative position...
...In the populist tradition of William Jennings Bryan, the New Right movement is an amalgam of political and religious concerns...
...3-41...
...At the international level, it is to reassert U.S...
...On national security and foreign policy: The Internationalists continue to stress cooperation with the trilateral powers and a measure of respect for the third world experience, especially that of the larger countries like Mexico and Nigeria...
...10 The anti-elitist character of the New Right shows itself in the suspicion with which it regards the "Eastern Establishment...
...So far, he has developed a reputation for staying above the battle and avoiding the bloody bureaucratic and political in-fighting...
...President Reagan has shown himself to be a canny, wheeling-dealing politician during his stint as governor of California...
...2 2 Its membership, in addition to the groups mentioned above, include the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Christian Voice, Church League of America, National Religious Broadcasters, Gideon Bible, Wycliffe Bible Associates and individuals Richard Viguerie, Phyllis Schlafly and Paul Weyrich...
...8. The Economist, August 1, 1981...
...Throughout the Carter years, the CPD hammered away at the softness of his administration, attacking defense policies, SALT, the human rights policy...
...There are four discernible blocs within the Reagan Coalition...
...American Security Council/Coalition for Peace through Strength Increasingly within the New Right camp, this organization has been called the heart of the military-industrial complex...
...TERRITORIALL EXPAWIONtISkA AND IDEOL06oCAL "POPA6AWPDA I OWT 9AVE TO TELL YOU WHo's B HIMtD THIS DRIVE FOR HEGEMONYRightwing forces the world round were obviously buoyed by Reagan's victory...
...II, no...
...One of them, Evan's Law, states: "By the time one of our people gets to where he can do us some good, he stops being one of our people...
...With the vacuum at the top, foreign policy would seem to be increasingly the responsibility of the people in charge of the various areas...
...Pacific Legal Foundation/Mountain States Legal Foundation/Washington Legal Foundation Three of several "legal foundations" whose purpose is to litigate conservative causes, they heads up an information empire that offers its public relations services to New Right causes, often taking an 80% cut and more of the funds generated by direct mail appeals...
...The four discussed here are the most important...
...The philosophy that emerged from these institutes, refined and popularized by conservaJulylAugust 1112 NACLA Report The Think Tanks In its quest for respectability, the Right, in both its Traditional and New forms, has taken the policy and research institute model of the Council on Foreign Relations and gone wild...
...America second...
...CIA chief William Casey is involved in a scandal that the CIA failed to uncover in its own pre-confirmation security checks...
...Frankly, we need a more authoritarian state...
...They had evolved a response to questions like those asked by Anthony Sampson, author of The Sovereign State of ITT: "How does the multinational corporation...fit in with modern notions of politics and diplomacy...
...They are all likely to have branch board rooms in Rome, Bonn or We cannot count on an alliance of angels to defend the free world...
...At Stanford University, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace got a new lease on life through the leadership of its director, W. Glenn Campbell...
...2 5 At the Cabinet level, only James Watt, Secretary of the Interior, is identifiably New Right...
...We do not want to turn our country into a puritanical garrison state...
...But like his predecessor, Jimmy Carter, he is inexperienced in the international scene...
...Armand de Borchgrave, co-author of The Spike, thiny veiled attack on left-liberal think tank, Institute for Policy Studies, was a CSIS fellow...
...The Reagan Administration has been in power for eight months and the questions still remain...
...They feel government has overtaxed them, entangled private initiative in red tape and forced their children into buses and sex education...
...It makes no difference to their expanded interests that some of their executive headquarters are now in Dallas or Atlanta...
...By the same reasoning, both Neo-Conservatives and Internationalists would prefer a strong but malleable union structure, while the New Right is categorically anti-union...
...role in the 1980s...
...Thousands of little committees in cities and backwater towns are organized in an attack against ERA, abortion, busing, homosexuals in the schools and Darwin in the textbooks...
...The 700 Club is a Christian talk show modeled after Johnny Carson...
...They have proclaimed a shift in concern from human rights to terrorism, drawing labored distinctions between authoritarian and totalitarian regimes which somehow lands them on the side of Guatemala and against Nicaragua...
...While the hardline Internationalists do not share the prevailing dream of a return to the uncontested power of the 50s, they do believe that the present period requires a strong commitment to military intervention...
...Paul Laxalt (R-Nev...
...power to such a point that no nation or political movement would dare provoke its use...
...In twice that time, Reagan has yet to 3%5SE 8 NACLAReportJuly August 9 follow suit...
...Haig's advisers publicly criticize UN AmbassadorJeane Kirkpatrick for how she handled the censure of Israel in the United Nations...
...Nixon's detente and opening to China had undercut their rationale for anti-communism and increased defense spending...
...They know we must change our economic policies...
...Then, it was Goldwater...
...Since 1973, Scaife has * THE ADOLPH COORS FOUNDATION given through various foundations under his control over $35 million to rightist think-tanks, Source of Income: the Coors Beer fortune research institutes, legal and media projects...
...But their party was taken over by the New Left and environmentalists...
...8 No wonder many suspect that behind the cryptic silence lies no coherent foreign policy...
...Recently, James Baker, the White House Chief of Staff, repudiated public criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin by the Secretary of Defense and the Undersecretary of State...
...They occupy several key posts as do many from the still active Committee on the Present Danger...
...XIII, no...
...We must replace rhetoric with resolve and detente with a dynamic defense...
...The Traditionals are the children of those who called Franklin D. Roosevelt "that man...
...Major Sources of Financial Support for Rightist Think Tanks * J. HOWARD PEW FREEDOM TRUST stitute formed to give intellectual direction to Source of Income: Pew family fortune, pri- the candidacy of Ronald Reagan...
...Another such center, the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) in Washington, was converted from a rest home for anti-New Deal hacks to a humming factory of conservative thought-the "Brookings Institute" of the Republican Party...
...He is derailed by the President's men in the White House...
...On examination, their "new ideology" is a toned-down version of their rightist allies', and even more fraught with logical inconsistencies...
...Arrangements for the Ottawa summit ended up in their hands after Vice President Bush failed to move them forward fast enough...
...Within the Reagan Administration, they are the good grey men and women, whose names do not spring immediately to mind: Martin Anderson, chief domestic adviser...
...extensive promotion of its ideas...
...With single-minded zeal, they have fomented an image of the Soviet Union on a worldwide expansionist rampage and targeted Cuba as the fountain of all hemispheric unrest...
...sociologists Nathan Glazer and Peter Berger, and political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset...
...They include Vice President Bush, Secretary of State Haig, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Special Trade Adviser William Brock, Ambassador to West Germany Arthur Burns, and AID head Peter Brock...
...They were trade unionists, leaders of the AFL-CIO, social democratic politicians, lawyers, an occasional wealthy scion and intellectuals...
...The magazine articles and the daily utterances by U.S...
...Its constituent blocs neither are profoundly in agreement with one another nor accustomed to working together...
...Dedicated to "alter the climate of confusion and complacency, apathy and self-denigration that play so decisive a role in weakening the Western will to resist totalitarian threats," the group's members plan to hold public forums and write articles to build momentum for their views...
...They clamor for protectionism...
...The Traditional Right (Conservatives] There has been a tendency to label the Reagan Administration as "The Right" and leave it at that...
...A CIA plan to kill Colonel Qaddaffi of Libya is leaked to the press, presumably by Casey's opponents within the agency...
...We can't restore moral values, that's hopeless...
...Their home was the Democratic Party...
...Grace, United Fruit, ITT, the Rockefellers, etc...
...New Rightists would cut social spending dramatically, while Neo-Conservatives and Internationalists would only trim the welfare state to a *For purposes of the argument, the distinctions are drawn more sharply than they exist in reality...
...Fight the Right (New York: Center for Constitutional Rights), May 1981, p. 4. 29...
...Deborah Huntington and Ruth Kaplan, "Whose Gold is Behind the Altar," Press On, Vol...
...By the mid-60s, a surge of international investments by the giants of communications, transportation, agribusiness, oil-had become an important new factor in global relations...
...Signa20 NACLAReportJulylAugust tories came from the Traditional Right, the Neo-Conservatives, the labor bureaucrats and the New Right...
...It is quite possible that his personal popularity will continue to soar even as the contenders for foreign policy czar tear each other to shreds around him...
...He does not seem able to pull it together...
...The Committee for the Free World, "Press Release," February 11, 1981...
...They continue to counsel the cautious use of military power...
...The Eagle Forum (a.k.a...
...Leading this march to glory were the cold-war liberals...
...Other recipe rightist causes, the foundation is the principal ients of Pew funds include Campus Crusade, supporter of the newly formed Institute on Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, and the Religion and Democracy and is also a supChristian Freedom Foundation...
...3 1 The butter part of the equation came with the prosperity generated by an economy geared to defense production even during peacetime...
...Since the inflexible New Right is viewed with considerable suspicion by the rest of the Reagan Coalition, it has not received the lion's share of post-victory patronage due it for the unflinching support which made Ronald Reagan's political career...
...Their new ideological formulations and slogans have caused many to characterize them no longer as liberals but as "Neo-Conservatives"' -much to the consternation of many of their most illustrious members...
...Sklar and Lawrence...
...This foun- General Comments: Long-time supporter of dation and the Pew Memorial Trust have long nation and the Pew Memo righting causes...
...They know that the country is losing strength and respect around the world...
...Current resident scholars include NeoConservatives Sidney Hook and Seymour Martin Lipset * HERITAGE FOUNDATION Orientation: New Right Founded: 1974 Focus: General Policy Location: Washington, D.C...
...Some like Daniel Patrick Moynihan joined the Nixon Administration straightaway...
...9 It co-sponsored the Washington forJesus rally with Moral Majority in April 1980, which drew a turnout of 200,000.20 The program included a mass prayer to overcome U.S...
...These four forces, or blocs, are: 1. The Traditional Right (a.k.a...
...Others formed the Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM) in a battle to recapture the Democratic Party in 1972...
...In the Senate, Jesse Helms, a loyal Reaganite, holds up the confirmation of most Reagan appointees to the State Department, writing them off as "Kissinger retreads" and thus not to his New Right liking...
...UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick...
...2 " His legislative aide is Ronald Docksai, a former professor at Georgetown University and president of the Council on Inter-American Security (CIS), a rightist policy group on Latin American issues...
...They are the "Know Everythings, affluent, secular, equipped with post graduate degrees and economic security and cultural power...
...Its leader there is Jesse Helms (R-NC), member of the prestigious Foreign Relations Committee and chairman of its Subcommittee on the.Western Hemisphere...
...Huntington and Kaplan, "Whose Gold," p. 2. 20...
...Hunter, "In the Wings," p. 127...
...In the history of man everyone has talked about expanding rights, having more and more freedom...
...2 3 Founded by Ed McAteer, press contact for the Moral Majority and board member of the Wycliffe Bible Association, the Religious Roundtable is the result of several years of painstaking work to wed New Right politics with religion...
...A more thorough study of conservative think tanks concerned with national security and foreign policy questions would also include the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis in Cambridge, Mass,, the Hudson Institute, the National Strategy Information Center, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Institute for Contemporary Studies, the American Security Council Foundation and, more narrowly, the Council on Inter-American Security...
...with the exception of social security...
...Its directors include Roger Fontane, Latin American specialist on the National Security Council, and retired General Gordon Sumner, special adviser to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Thomas Enders...
...At the moment, they seem to be holding the foreign policy reins, at least at the level of rhetoric...
...18 NACLAReportJulylAugust 19 Their strategic importance lay in their ability to mobilize the organized working class, the liberal media and the intellectual and academic communities...
...A graduate of Harvard, he embraced the New Right in the early 70s and is now regarded as one of its brightest stars as an organizing consultant...
...They would even advocate expanding its responsibilities to include the policing of the Middle East and Africa...
...Many of the hardliners preferred George Bush, but his defeat in the primaries left them without a champion...
...it finds none in Washington...
...The President's men, the White House executive staff-particularly Edwin Meese-have begun to play the foreign policy game...
...Its director is Phyllis Schlafly, long-time anti-communist and principal spokesperson of the anti-ERA movement...
...One conservative (Traditional) writer rejects the idea that the New Right has anything at all to do with conservatism: "The neo-populist nature of the New Right, perplexing to those who expect self-described conservatives to be aristocratic in their sympathies, placing great value on gradual social reform within time-honored traditions, is in fact no mystery at all: it's a natural outgrowth of anti-aristocratic and anti-conservative impulses that have been present in American politics throughout our history, forming a stormy, radical and sometimes violent tradition of their own...
...The Internationalists [Trilaterallsts] With the storms of Watergate breaking around him, Richard Nixon joined in the cry of all those who have tasted power in the United States: he had confronted a greater power, one which can even break the President...
...They have engaged in a running firefight with Secretary Haig over who will be the Administration's crisis manager...
...Coordinating these groups are the Kingston Meetings, regular bi-weekly meetings of the leaders of the New Right, and the Liberty Court Meetings, a strategy group of leaders of "profamily" organizations...
...Ibid., p. 9. 34...
...The Soviet Union is generally seen by all as an expansionist power...
...Scaife, heir to the Mellon fortune and a major donor to rightist causes...
...The lack of clear foreign policy signals is but one indication of the continued elusiveness of a consensus among the forces of the Reagan Coalition about the U.S...
...American Enterprise Institute received $1,000,000 from the J. Howard Pew Freedom * THE LILLY FOUNDATION Trust...
...COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS Orientation: Internationalist Founded: 1918 Focus: Foreign Policy/National Security Location: New York City President: Winston Lord Important Members (total membership, 2000): Henry Kissinger Zbigniew Brzezinski Walter Mondale David Rockefeller Lane Kirkland John Anderson Some CFR members in Reagan Administration: Malcolm Baldridge, Secretary of Commerce George Bush, Vice President Richard Burt, Director, Politico-Military Affairs Arthur Burns, Ambassador to Germany Lawrence Eagleburger, Assistant Secretary of State, Europe Thomas O. Enders, Assistant Secretary of State, the Americas Alexander Haig, Secretary of State Fred Ikie, Department of Defense Peter Peterson, Agency for International Development Meyer Rashish, State Department, Economic Policy Donald Regan, Secretary of the Treasury Eugene Rostow, Arms Control Agency Walter Stoessel, State Department...
...His task is, in his own words, to create a "theology of democratic capitalism...
...Crawford, Thunder on the Right, pp...
...Among the latest crop is ex-Vietnam POW Jeremiah Denton, chairman of the newly formed Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism...
...The quotations are from his book, except such terms as "adversary culture," "New Class...
...To deal with foreign policy, members of the Hoover and AEI formed the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 1962...
...Richard Allen, National Security Adviser, appears to be next in line...
...s Another group, the recently formed Institute for Religion and Democracy, has been created to combat "confusion" within Christian churches created by support for third world liberation struggles from several large, established denominations...
...Others, noting the rightward shifts Dan Wasserman OUK FOKEItE POucY MoST COWNrtND WIT A COw c TED CTAPAI&N4 OF...
...Their involvement, however, comes from the necessity to clean up the mess...
...They have pitted themselves against big government, big labor, the New Left, environmentalists, Naderites and the women's, gay and black movements...
...One bore a sign around its neck: "With Reagan we will eliminate the miscreants and subversives in El Salvador and Central America...
...Already they run afoul of their premise that authoritarian governments do not attempt to interfere in the cultural lives of their citizenry...
...Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour airs on hundreds of radio and television stations, netting more than one million dollars in donations weekly.l 6 He and Paul Weyrich were founders of the Moral Majority, which organizes ministers to preach New Right politics from the pulpit and work for 16 NACLA ReportJuly/August 17 voter registration...
...The Internationalists want a way out of the crisis...
...It produced the film, Attack on the Americas (with commentary by President Reagan and Jeane Kirkpatrick), denouncing revolutions in Central America as Soviet plots...
...Carter's direct appeals for greater austerity convinced few...
...4 (April 1977), and Vol...
...They hold out for "comprehensive" containment, wanting to assert U.S...
...Stefan Possony, one of three principal sources for current best-seller, The Terrorist Network, by Claire Sterling, was resident scholar...
...If human rights would not open new opportunities for investment, then let the guns speak...
...but we will not survive unless we save more than we spend, work more than we play, and spend more on defense and less on welfare...
...Their's is a view that still finds resonance in Europe...
...Crawford, Thunder on the Right, p. 290...
...9. The basic materials for discussion of the Reagan Coalition comes from the following sources: Alan Crawford, Thunder on the Right (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980...
...After the defeat of George Bush in the 1980 electoral primaries,the Internationalists had little choice but to seek entry into the Reagan tent...
...those people" in their place and the American flag flying in the farthest outpost of the empire...
...They share with the other members of the coalition the belief that to get capitalism to a new stage of "take-off," there must be cutbacks in social spending, give-backs from organized labor and a general belt-tightening of the working and middle classes...
...Fred Ikle, under secretary of defense...
...AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH (AEI) Orientation: Traditional Right, NeoConservative, Hard-line Internationalist Founded: 1943 (originally as American Enterprise Association) Focus: General Public Policy Location: Washington, D.C...
...3 He publishes the Conservative Digest and runs a New Right book club...
...14 NACLA ReportJulylAugust 15 The base of this movement is pre-eminently petit bourgeois-small business people and frustrated professionals--as well as angry housewives and the fed-up and fearful among the white working class...
...Middendorf, Representative to OAS Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Economic Policy (former adviser to Sen...
...Nixon appeared to be assessing the survival of the species by the number of descendants of 19th century capitalism still to be found on the eastern seaboard...
...Relying on a literal reading of the Bible and the identification of the Anti-Christ with communism, New Right evangelists have mixed religion and politics into an apocalyptic brew that would condemn their opponents to eternal damnation...
...The Traditional Right has its origins in preNew Deal capitalism...
...Ibid., p. 160...
...It was this doctrine that created a consensus around the idea of "guns and butter" at both the elite and mass levels of American society...
...What is clear is that the process of forging both domestic and foreign policy guidelines has been far from harmonious between and among the power blocs which mobilized to elect Ronald Reagan...
...It is its angry style and populist constituency, as well as the priority of its concerns, that distinguishes the New Right from the more urbane sweater-and-pipe set of the Traditional Right...
...Holly Sklar and Robert Lawrence, Who's Who in the Reagan Administration (a poster) (Boston: South End Press, 1981...
...This wing of what Nixon called the "silent majority" is silent no longer...
...Against permissiveness, the work ethic, intellectual excellence and discipline...
...in 1974 the two formed the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress...
...But we have found that if you let people do what they want to do, you have chaos...
...At the domestic level it is to reestablish the myth of competitive capitalism as the dominant ethos of American society, at a minimum reducing the responsibility of the national government for the welfare state it inherited...
...Secretary of State Haig, a hardline Internationalist, was trusted by all factions of the coalition...
...New Rightists have their little laws, which reflect their bitterness...
...The Neo-Conservatives, on the other hand, are masters of the art...
...In 1980, the porter of the American Enterprise Institute...
...Wolfe and Sanders, "Resurgent Cold War Ideology," pp...
...New York Times editorial, August 1980 more appropriate size, recognizing aspects of it as important to facilitate greater acquiescence to the general belt-tightening...
...the Center for Strategic and Inter- Heritage Foundation as well as the rightist national Studies ($5.3 million), the Committee Church League of America, the Fellowship of on the Present Danger...
...Others include Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary...
...JulylAugust 1920 NACLA Report iness community would succumb to Soviet seduction in its hunger for trade and would exchange national security for new markets...
...To achieve their ends, the New Right wants to alter the Constitution, end the electoral college and make greater use of the initiative and referendum...
...Peter Steinfels, The Neoconservatives (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979...
...They define the crisis as cultural, not economic, transforming the result into a crisis of authority...
...6. To confront the current crisis, authority must be asserted and government protected...
...Throughout the 1980 presidential campaign, he had hammered at the twin fears of Soviet strength and U.S...
...Allen Hunter, "In the Wings: New Right Organization and Ideology," RadicalAmerica (Spring 1981), p. 113...
...6. Washington Post, July 29, 1981...
...They are neither of the base (though they may have risen from its ranks as did Lane Kirkland) nor of the ruling class...
...The Institute on Religion and Democracy, "Press Release," April 28, 1981...
...Has done much work on deregulation of the economy: receives extensive financial support from drug-related foundations, Smith Richardson and the Lilly Foundation, which have expressed concerns about regulatory legislation...
...5 To resolve the rivalry, Vice President Bush is made the international crisis manager...
...Both the show and the magazine, Pat Robertson Perspectives, promote "Christian political positions...
...That is the dream...
...power but undermined it...
...What we have to do is restructure society, set minimum standards of respect and order...
...Earlier this year, the Committee placed a paid advertisement in the New York Times supporting the current junta in El Salvador...
...Ibid...
...7 Israel bombs an Iraqui nuclear facility while special U.S...
...Humphrey's defeat in '68 was the symbolic end...
...Political Affairs Paul Volker, Chairman, Federal Reserve Board General Comments: The pre-eminent policy planning institute in the postwar era, shaping "all foreign policy and strategy...
...XIII, no...
...Indeed, that was why he was appointed...
...The NeoConservatives are trying to carve out a less rabid place for themselves in the war for control of cultural ideology, most definitely one of the battlefields of the 80s...
...Its founders include Penn Kemble, also a co-founder of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, and Michael Novak, a neo-conservative intellectual.36 The Institute shares office space with the Coalition as well as with another group, the Citizens Committee for Freedom in the Americas, formed to oppose Central American solidarity work...
...In the mid-70s, three men began to shape the amorphous little bands of disgruntled shopkeepers and housewives into a powerful movement...
...General Comments: This Indiana-based foun- Source of Income: Mellon family fortune, dation has been a major contributor to the primarily invested in Gulf Oil...
...His business dealings with Howard Cerny, attorney for stock swindler Robert Vesco, and a business group with organized crime connections in the Azores led to his resignation from the Reagan campaign one week before the election...
...3" Its military premise was a secret document, NSC-68, prepared during the Truman Administration, which argued that the build-up of superior military force and the threat of its use is the "ultimate calculus" of foreign policy...
...He's Not Wearing Any Clothes...
...In the wilderness beyond power, the cold warriors reformulated their vision and lashed out against the new multipolar view put forth by Nixon-Kissinger and elaborated by the Trilateralists...
...Their style was aristocratic or, at least, meritocratic...
...The names need no introduction to NACLA readers-W.R...
...Who's in Charge...
...One thing that distinguishes the Traditionals from the New Right is their continued attempt to give rightist ideology a legitimate intellectual base...
...A Delicate Balance The Reagan Coalition is a delicate balance, a volatile mix...
...He holds generally orthodox right-wing views, but is also reported to favor "a return to Biblical law...
...They advocated standing up to the Soviets and telling off the third world, as one of their number, Daniel Moynihan, had done, they thought, so effectively in the UN...
...NeoConservative Midge Decter and others of her clan have organized the Committee for the Free World, a group of 400 activist intellectuals from the United States and several other countries...
...marily in Sun Oil Company General Comments: J. Howard Pew served on * SMITH RICHARDSON FOUNDATION the editorial board of American Opinion, Source of Income: Vicks Vaporub fortune magazine of the John Birch Society...
...Where cooptation failed, Cointelpro, an FBI subversion plan and the Red Squads were rushed in to silence the dissatisfied...
...Miring themselves deeper in their contradictions, they define the solution to this cultural crisis as an economic one: waste no financial resources on the "underclass" or the adversary "New Class...
...He defends his silence with childish or, depending on one's interpretation, ominous bravado: "We know where we're going and think it might be counterproductive to say anything about it...
...Within four months of his inauguration, President Carter made a major foreign policy speech...
...Intervention against supposed Soviet/Chinese surrogates did not enhance the credibility of U.S...
...Those who "iewed these signals with alarm rather than glee took refuge behind a conventional wisdom: the weight of office moderates extreme positions...
...New Right Politicians in Congress SENATE William Armstrong (R-Colorado) Jeremiah Denton (R-Alabama) John East (R-North Carolina) Jake Garn (R-Utah) Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina) Gordon Humphrey (R-New Hampshire) Roger Jespen (R-lowa) James McClure (R-Idaho) Don Nickles (R-Oklahoma) Harrison Schmitt (R-New Mexico) Steven Symms (R-Idaho) Malcolm Wallap (R-Washington) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Philip Crane (R-Illinois) Robert K. Dornan (R-California) Mickey Edwards (R-Oklahoma) George Hansen (R-Idaho) Henry Hyde (R-Illinois) Jim Jeffries (R-Kansas) Marvin Leath (D-Texas) Bob Livingston (R-Louisiana) Larry McDonald (R-Georgia) J. Kenneth Robinson (R-Virginia) Elton Rudd (R-Arkansas) Source: Alan Crawford, Thunder on the Right, 1980...
...4 In a series of articles and position papers written during the campaign and after, Reagan advisers have laid out plans for a bellicose new era...
...Today, there is a new alignment of powerful economic and political forces as changing world conditions force continuing reappraisal...
...Socio-economic structures have performed well...
...After that, who is left...
...In dealing with the Soviets," they warned, "private pecuniary gain and American public interest may not always coincide...
...A strong advocate of the New Right's proposed Family Protection Act, legislating a return to traditional sex roles, Laxalt served as Reagan's campaign manager in 1976 and 1980...
...Its posture internationally was isolationist until the Cold War and then virulently anti-communist...
...Already there are sharp disagreements within the coalition:* On the economy: There is disagreement about how to handle inflation...
...Noting the unusually high rate of vituperative remarks flying around Washington these days, the establishment media has analyzed the confusing signals as resulting from a clash of egos...
...anti-Semitism and Fascism...
...A serious decline in living standards for the working class at the very least might ignite street riots (as in England) and, at worst (from a ruling class perspective), might create the opportunity for the resurgence of socialist alternatives that put in question the system itself...
...On the "cultural" issues: The New Right is uncompromising on the issues of sexual preference, abortion, legislating the restoration of the male-dominated family, putting the Bible back into the classroom and taking Catcher in the Rye The vulnerability of democratic government in the United States thus comes...
...Beneath the snarling surface lies the far more complex dynamic of factions of the ruling class still jockeying for influence and, ultimately, dominance in determining the general shape and direction of the Reagan presidency...
...There is a general consensus among them that the United States cannot afford economically, politically or ideologically to police the entire world...
...So far I don't see any...
...Anthony Sampson, The Sovereign State of ITT (Greenwich CT: Fawcett Publications, 1974...
...Also, government workers "whose power expands as government grows...
...It is a fear-ridden movement, which feels that its concerns have been unjustly ignored, and it says so in unequivocal terms...
...Tothe elites: "The New Class and the Adversary culture must be tamed under the threat of being purged from responsible milieus.' "Every logical link mrst be made between opposition and extremism...
...Retired General Gordon Sumner, now special assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, defended Guatemala's government-run death squads...
...Produces TV shows on public issues with former What's My Line host John Charles Daly...
...4 ' Some of these older industries and those who supply them, however, tend to be the backbone of the more conservative forces on this issue...
...3 3 By 1976, when they came back with Senator Scoop Jackson, Hubert Humphrey and, in a long shot, Gov...
...They attempt to deal with the fact that the demands of the poor can no longer be met, that the cultural revolution has produced a powerful backlash and that the resulting polarization is moving people to the left as well as to the right...
...And here, there seems to be a problem, particularly in the area of foreign policy...
...8. The unstable international order requires a "stable and unified society...
...4. That cuture has become the ruling spirit of the 'New Class," a never clearly defined group that includes intellectuals, professors, journalists, service workers, the affluent in the suburbs and the inner cities (the Radical Chic...
...The heart of trilateralism in the United States and the home of the 'eastern establishment"' Publishes Foreign Affairs, the most important foreign policy journal in the United States...
...A massbased phenomenon involving unknown numbers of people-clearly in the millions-the New Right is a network of grassroots organizations whose concerns are primarily cultural...
...Their basis of agreement is 10 NACLAReportJulylAugust 11 narrow...
...Those who have been able to disentangle themselves from the grip of the New Deal and the Great Society are now breaking bread with others who have stood on the outside looking in for most of the past half century...
...women's liberation and gay rights and the destruction of the family...
...Governing institutions have lost legitimacy...
...3 Like the proverbial little boy at the emperor's fashion show, West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt blurted out the private interpretation of many: "Leadership is when you give a direction...
...In 1976, as the new multipolar vision of the world took hold, they formed a broad, bipartisan group, the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD...
...Group Research Inc., Group Research Report...
...Ibid., p. 2 22...
...The failure of both broke the base of electoral support for their program within the party...
...CIA Edward Luttwak, Counterinsurgency expert Walter Lacquer, Specialist in terrorism and guerrilla warfare...
...That, however, will contribute to the chaos and uncertainty and increasingly strain the coalition itself...
...3. Newsweek (International Edition), July 27, 1981, p. 12...
...New Rightists have been voted into the Senate in ever-increasing numbers each election year...
...The War on Poverty was not their only war...
...Foreign Policy and Latin American and Caribbean Regimes," March 27-31, 1978, p. 2. 31...
...Their quest has been for the "respectability of conservative thought...
...Differences among the blocs-and there are many, not the least because style and familiarity with the exercise of power vary enormously-are worked out tentatively and slowly...
...If everyone was in the game and agreeing to play along, America could meet the needs of all its people...
...Ibid., p. 3. 24...
...The "softliners," those who find no place cards at Reagan's table, cling to the view that, ultimately, economic power is the greatest weapon that the capitalist bloc has against socialism...
...Get them saved, baptized and registered," preaches Falwell...
...4 (July-August 1979), Vol...
...Ibid., p. 15...
...The management of global capitalism first...
...New York Times, February 9, 1981 The Neo-Conservatives [Cold War Liberals] The predominant postwar ideology of the United States has been "cold-war liberalism...
...Many fear that Denton will convert his new responsibility into this generation's McCarthy committee...
...Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseHelms, Denton, Hatch, East Direct New Right influence, if minor in the executive branch, is important in Congress, especially the Senate...
...When Reagan took Bush as his vice president, they were relieved...
...We have entered an are of limits and limited government...A harsher more exacting and more perilous age lies ahead...
...They went leadership back for this country and they realize that Reagan is a lot more than just an actor...
...Members included CDM founders Moynihan, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Senator Henry Jackson and current AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland...
...If the piety of Jimmy Carter could not win compliance, then let it be imposed...
...William Casey, Reagan's Campaign Manager, current CIA Director...
...2 7 Helms is not alone...
...Ibid., p. 269...
...urged a return to stronger bilateral relations...
...Representatives of this capitalist elite have always been the core of any governing bloc, be it Republican or Democrat...
...Ibid...
...military weakness, inflation and economic disintegration...
...In a new variant on the oldest strategy of class rule-divide and conquer -they are competing with the New Right for the loyalty of confused and frightened "ordinary" people with "routine jobs," validating their existence against the "underclass" and the articulate "New Class" with its alternative lifestyle and politics...
...Chairman: David Abshire Resident Specialists: Ray S. Cline, former Deputy Director for Intelligence...
...For the moment, they seem disposed to let the New Right intimidate and terrify with their jingoism and their attacks on liberal politicians, minorities, women, gays, evolution and books, and to allow the Neo-Conservatives to prepare their assault on the "New Class...
...they are in the forefront of articulating Reagan policy.* We include for comparison purposes, the Council on Foreign Relations, which has not lost is primacy in providing key personnel...
...Mobilizing a national campaign brought together talent and resources that was converted into a permanent political presence...
...This cream of the Fortune 500 still controls the bulk of the capital accumulation that takes place in the world today...
...They have tried to separate themselves out from the lunatic element identified with the hallucinations of the John Birch Society and the violence of the Ku Klux Klan...
...THE HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE Orientation: Traditional Right Founded: 1919 Focus: General Public Policy Location: Stanford University, Palo Alto, Califor"nia Executive Director: W. Glenn Campbell, member of Reagan's "Kitchen Cabinet...
...They are the consummate "America Firsters"-reflexively anticommunist, and opposed to anything "foreign," be it alien residents, the United Nations or the Trilateral Commission...
...They have already begun their work...
...The effective operation of a democratic political system usually requires some measure of apathy and non-involvement on the part of some individuals and groups...
...Presidential adviser Edwin Meese takes on new responsibilities for foreign policy...
...In 1973-74, he was paid $60,000 per year as a propagandist for Overseas Companies of Portugal, which promoted Portuguese rule and Western investments in Angola and Mozambique.4 3 Allen enjoys support from the New and Traditional Right, but his business dealings and a reputation for not being too bright make him less than desirable for the Internationalists...
...XI, no...
...Our convictions have gone slack, our morals loose, our manners corrupt...
...Are there really any differences...
...Ibid...
...These men are not charismatic visionaries, they are pragmatic technicians of the science of political organizing and mass communication.' 2 Richard Viguerie is the direct-mail genius whose appeal letters and mailing lists have made neighborhood groups into national organizations...
...38 The establishment dying...
...Getting jobs in the Reagan Administration is a New Right obsession...
...It has already put the United States on the threshold of war in Central America...
...Pinched by a declining economy, affronted and threatened by the demands of minorities and outraged by the cultural revolution of the last decade, they have emerged in force...
...In each camp there are inconsistencies and contradictions, and a spectrum of opinion that blurs the line between the hardliners of one camp and the softliners of the next...
...Overseas wars had not united the country but had divided it...
...As professionals, politicians, labor bureaucrats, journalists, academics, etc., they are the mediators of the message, the administrators of the new ideological center...
...In These Times, January 21-27, 1981, p. 17...
...the ubiquitous Senator Moynihan...
...Vice President George Bush also has the stigma of being an Internationalist, ran against Reagan in the primaries, is an unreconstructed easterner in Texas clothing and, therefore, is distrusted by the New Right...
...In some states they have responded to that subordination by forming a Conservative Party...
...Many question whether he will last out the year...
...The Eagle Forum has 50,000 members...
...Renewed emphasis on the Communist threat and on the Third World's rejection of liberal values is needed to generate the requisite national allegiance and discipline," "*This synthesized credo was made by Peter Steinfels, executive editor of the Catholic weekly Commonweal, in an excellent book called the Neo-Conservatives...
...But personality quirks and presidential ambitions have isolated him...
...2 4 "Ryan's Gap" is "the interval between the election of your best friend and his hiring of your worst enemy to be his administrative assistant...
...4. Ibid...
...He believes that the U.S...
...The Internationalists and the Traditionalists prefer specific tax cuts for business and control of the money supply to bring about what they see as a necessary contraction of the economy...
...Social stability and 'the legacy of liberal civilization" is threatened...
...3 2 That year began the diaspora for the cold war liberals...
...American Enterprise Institute...
...Peter Stone, "Conservative Brain Trust," New York Times Magazine, May 10, 1981, p. 9 2 . 38...
...Cold War Liberals) 4. The Internationalists (a.k.a...
...the Administration criticizes the appointment of four Communists to minor cabinet posts and irritates even its French sympathizers with its arrogance...
...From former cold-war Democrats to Goldwater conservatives and beyond, they seek, in this period of great insta- bility, a strategy that will be as successful in guaranteeing the dominance of business in- terests and the acquiescence of the rest of the population as that which until now found its expression in the Democratic Party...
...from the internal dynamics of democracy itself in a highly educated, mobilized and participant society...
...It has disturbed important allies like France, Germany and Mexico...
...Jerry Brown, the voting constituency which had supported their efforts in the 60s had disintegrated...
...Coming out of that campaign, the Traditionals increasingly made use of study centers, or think tanks, refurbished in the drive for respectability, as safe niches where conservative intellectuals could develop public policy...
...Who's Who...
...power anytime and anywhere that a country opposes U.S...
...Peter Ross Range, "Thunder from the Right," New York Times Magazine, February 8, 1981...
...and Holly Sklar, Trilateralism, The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management (Boston: South End Press, 1980...
...The White House Transcripts (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), p. 120...
...Weyrich convinced Coors to fund the New Right think tank, the have opposed environmental legislation, labor legislation and sued to prevent the implementation of the Panama Canal treaties until review by the House of Representatives...
...It is committed to the ideology of competitive capitalism, free of government regulation, union shops, taxes and welfare roles...
...Their most visible champion and major contender for the foreign policy crown is Richard Allen, Reagan's national security adviser and CSIS cofounder...
...The Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress It runs a candidates' school every six weeks on how to win elections on a New Right platform...
...Internationally, a military orientation to foreign policy could lead to more Vietnams, isolation from capitalist allies and the possibility of nuclear annihilation...
...Through Helms' office is coordinated the New Right's Washington offensive against communism, terrorism and the third world...
...What is the ideology that binds them together, what are its weakest links, who are the key individuals in the struggle and what are the programs they have articulated to date...
...Presently in competition with CSIS for influence...
...The women's and gay movements, which challenge stereotypical sex roles, are attacked for destroying "the American family"-their idyllic bastion of white male privilege and female security in an increasingly difficult economy...
...Mutual suspicion abounds...
...The party represented the vehicle through which the internationally oriented sectors of the ruling class entered into alliance with the labor movement, the minority communities, academics and intellectuals...
...3 To the Reagan Administration, the NeoConservatives bring unique skills: long careers in public life, roots in the U.S...
...The New Right Much media time has been devoted to this component of the Reagan Coalition...
...In it and other magazines, a handful of intellectuals have given expression to a reformulated and newly "relevant" liberalism, achieved after an extensive critique of the 60s and 70s...
...1 (January-February 1979), Vol...
...The Administration backs down before Mexican pressure on its proposal to make the mini-Marshall plan for the Caribbean a new anti-Cuba crusade...
...Allen, a Traditionalist, is hardline anti-Soviet, anti-third world...
...See, for example, Robert Tucker, "The Purposes of American Power," Foreign Affairs (Winter 1980/81...
...The cowboy actor cum governor had become a known quantity to them three years earlier for his strident opposition to the renegotiation of the Panama Canal treaty...
...Henry Salvatori, early backer of Reagan's political career and member of his Kitchen Cabinet...
...The Internationalists appear now to be relying on other forces to impose the discipline that they believe is required for the restructuring...
...Where Are the Jobs...
...Yet the Reagan Administration is forced by fastmoving circumstances to make decisions and take action in the field of foreign affairs...
...JulylAugust 1314 NACLA Report tive opinion makers William Buckley, James J. Kilpatrick and George Will, saw less government as better, the Soviet Union as dangerous and third world countries as unruly children who did not know how to act in civilized society...
...See the following NACLA Reports on the Americas: Vol...
...interests...
...Resident Scholars: Irving Kristol, neo-conservative ideologue Robert Bork, Former Solicitor General, Nixon Administration Ben Wattenberg, Coalition for a Democratic Majority AEI-associated people in Reagan Administration: William Brock, Special Trade Adviser Arthur Burns, Ambassador to Germany George Bush, Vice President Richard Erb, Assistant Secretary of State for International Affairs Roger Fontane, National Security Council/Latin America David Gergen, White House Press Office Fred Ikie, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Jeane Kirkpatrick, UN Ambassador Lawrence Korb, Pentagon, Manpower Charles Lichenstein, Alternative Representative to UN James C. Muller, Assistant Director, OMB Michael Novak, UN Human Rights Commission Antonin Scalia, Solicitor General David Stockman, Director, OMB Wayne A. Valis, Special Assistant for Small Business Murray Weidenbaum, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers General Comments: Increasingly one of two centers where various blocs of Reagan Coaliton meet...
...Their differences are hard line, and can play havoc with the day-to-day operation of government-a process of negotiation and trade-offs...
...Clearly something is wrong...
...In 1979, the Christian Broadcasting System had revenues of $58 million and owned a $200 million broadcasting facility in Virginia Beach, Virginia...
...proposed to strengthen this country's and its clients' military capabilities...
...President: Edwin Feulner Heritage-related people in Reagan Administration: Willa Johnson, Deputy Director of White House personnel General Comments: Founded through contributions of Joseph Coors, New Right moneybags and member of Reagan "Kitchen Cabi12 NACLAReportJulylAugust 13 net," and of Richard Mellon Scaife, heir to the Mellon fortune...
...The magazine, Novak hopes, will counter the hostility of the church hierarchy to business...
...Great Society social programs were being returned to the states and cities for local management...
...For a more comprehensive list of internationalist personnel in the Administration, see Council on Foreign Relations in box on Think Tanks...
...Who are the contenders...
...And with that dream there can be no enduring compromise...
...The Traditionals and the New Right...
...served in Goldwater campaign Honorary Fellows: Frederick Hayek, economist Alexander Solzhenitsyn Ronald Reagan Hoover-related people in Reagan Administration: Martin Anderson, Domestic Policy Adviser Annelise Anderson, Assistant Director, Office of Management and Budget Wendy Borcherdt, Assistant Director, Presidential Personnel Thomas Gale Moore, Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission Darrell Trent, Assistant Secretary of Transportation Richard Allen, National Security Adviser General Comments: Strongly anti-communist (publishes Yearbook on International Communism, which Richard Allen edited in the mid-60s...
...Huntington and Kaplan, "Whose Gold," p. 5. 18...
...France elects a strongly anti-Soviet Socialist president...
...For now, the Republican Party is the vehicle around which they are We have to have a new consensus...
...the basic thing is the establishment," Nixon lamented to his legal counsel, John Dean...
...And then the governor of California, Ronald Reagan...
...The New Right and Neo-Conservatives prefer to lower taxes across the board and remove government regulation, stimulating what they believe will be an investment boom (which they think is necessary...
...In the "newly industrialized countries" like South Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, where many of the internationalists have investments, production has moved from textiles and cheap consumer goods to steel, auto and ship production...
...Michael Novak is working as well on another project to combat the progressive forces of the American church community and the growing influence of the Latin American-based theology of liberation...
...The Rightists, on the other hand, have a more confrontational and ideologically motivated battle plan toward both the Soviet Union and the third world...
...Daniel Bell, sociologist and co-editor (with Kristol) of The Public Interest, a scholarly journal of neo-conservative thought...
...French Smith, Attorney General General Comments: Increasing prominence in foreign policy...
...Howard Phillips first achieved national prominence when Richard Nixon appointed him to dismantle the Office of Economic Opportunity...
...3 (March 1977...
...The windmills they tilted were McGovernism, Kennedyism and anti-warism...
...East's legislative aide is Samuel Francis, a policy analyst for the Heritage Foundation and author of the 90-page intelligence section of a blueprint for the 80s that Heritage presented to the incoming Reagan Administration...
...The membership of the Committee for the Free World includes the familiar names-Kirkpatrick, Kristol, Lipset, Podhoretz (husband of Decter), but also others-Saul Bellow, columnist George Will, W. Glenn Campbell of the Hoover Institute, author Herman Wouk, novelist Elie Weisel, news commentator Eric Sevareid, AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, French playwrite Eugene Ionesco, English dramatist Tom Stoppard, writer Arthur Koestler...
...With such differences among the members of the coalition, somebody has to make the band play in harmony...
...This deference to their importance made them confident that the Reagan juggernaut was susceptible to moderating influence...
...General Comments: This Colorado-based foun- Recipients have included the Hoover Institute dation has been a principal supporter of the ($3.5 million...
...Council on Inter-American Security A study center devoted to Latin America, it is rabidly anti-communist...
...Ferdinand V. Solara, Key Influences in the American Right (Lea Communications, 1974-5...
...In either case, history, with each pronouncement, action or JulylAugust 910 NACLA Report reaction, is being made and cannot be undone...
...Key publication, Policy Review, which is serving as a forum for communication between Rightist tendencies and the Neo-Conservatives...
...New Right leaders play their base off against the "intrusions of government and the privileges of big business" on one side, and the low-paid, often unemployed members of the minority communities on the other...
...Bringing together all these groups is the Religious Roundtable, a council of 56 conservative members of the clergy, organized "to coordinate Christian leaders from around the nation who are willing to fight in the political arena for pro-God, pro-family, pro-America causes...
...Trilateralists)' With the decline of the Cold War and the domestic upheavals of the 1960s and 70s, the cold warriors gravitated toward the crowdpleasing and clearly savvy movie actor, Ronald Reagan, originally the mouthpiece of the Traditional and New Right...
...At fault is the increasing influence of the "adversary culture," representing "opposition to bourgeois society, an affirmation of self against social constraint., contempt for convention, and incessant exploration of experience, and estrangement from the 'ordinary' in life, family, neighborhood, the routine job...
...will against Soviet expansionism...
...Falwell once called for a "speedy return to the 'McCarthy era.' "18 Other evangelical groups of the New Right include the Campus Crusade for Christ International, which operates with a $30 million budget and 5,000 full-time staff members in 82 countries...
...Its membership includes William Doherty, executive director of the anti-communist, CIA-nurtured American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD...
...THE CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (CSIS) Orientation: Traditional Right, Neo-Conservative, Hard-line Internationalist Founded: 1962 Focus: Foreign Policy and National Security Location: Georgetown University, Washington, D.C...
...1 ' On international issues, not their forte, their main difference with the Traditional Right is, again, one of style more than content...
...Kirkpatrick and her aides from the UN as well as Eugene Rostow at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency are from that camp...
...Hardly so...
...3 9 Their answer...
...gathering, and President Reagan has been placed in the driver's seat...
...Haig threatens to resign...
...they give no clue as to its programmatic content-other than war...
...To the general public, the message is "Lower your expectations...
...They feared that the international busWhat They Believe 1. A crisisis of authority has overtaken the West...
...An expanding federal government set out to win the hearts and minds of the working class...
...Since before FDR, their home has been the Republican Party, until recently subordinated to the East Coast Rockefeller moderates...
...4 0 Thus, they would like to see such basic industries in the United States undergo planned shrinkage and modernization through massive layoffs, tax subsidies and automation, The advanced capitalist countries, according to their scenario, should reindustrialize on such frontiers of technology as microelectronics, biological engineering and information service...
...It blended idealism about the perpetual expansion of the American dream with free trade, fear of the rest of the world and a calculating realpolitik...
...7. A new Establishment must be forged...
...There really is no other choice," Sumner shrugged.2 of Carter in his last days, said sagely that Reagan was just following the strategic dictates of the period, no differently than Carter would be doing in his place...
...As it relates to the Americas, this exploration will serve as a guidebook to the Reagan-Bush years...
...President: William Baroody, Jr...
...The Traditional Right includes small and medium-sized business, the occasional maverick millionaire, corporate bureaucrats and retired military officers...
...Orrin Hatch) Wm...
...But it is hardly so simple...
...He served as Nixon's foreign policy adviser during the 1968 campaign but was elbowed aside by Henry Kissinger after the election...
...Four months later, Under Secretary of State for InterAmerican Affairs Thomas O. Enders erases the line, describing the problem as "Salvadorean in origin" and "so its ultimate solution must be Salvadorean...
...In the last 15 years there has been a proliferation of groups and organizations whose purpose it has been to give shape and legitimacy to the Right's vision...
...National Security Adviser Richard Allen, a rival for the vicarage, reportedly gossips that people who have had bypass heart surgery (Haig) are more volatile and unpredictable...
...The coalition is new and fragile, built on convenience, not love...
...The current debate among this bloc, then, is over the concept of "limited" or "selective" containment: once agreed on the Persian Gulf, where is the next place to "draw the line...
...Although the New Right has pretensions of elaborating that new ideology, its efforts lack subtlety and experience, and are hampered by a fierce anti-intellectualism...
...To have the advantage of violence at the utmost level of violence helps at every lesser level," said Paul Nitze, co-author of NSC-68, and leading member of the Committee on the Present Danger...
...The list is thought to be the source of the rumors coming from Hatch's office...
...By the mid-70s, the "mental universe" of the internationalists had expanded to match their economic one...
...But the Right, with its two distinct groupings, is only the most strident voice...
...labor bureaucracy and a vigorous intellectual tradition from which to promote a credible ideology for the coming years...
...1, and Crawford, Thunder on the Right, p. 160...
...David Rockefeller, 1980 Buenos Aires...
...An important mouthpiece for this intellectual tradition is Commentary, a monthly opinion magazine published in New York City...
...While the Traditionals share some of this agenda, they are not excited by the issues and appear uneasy with the dogmatism, antiintellectualism and general choler of their fundamentalist brethren...
...Recently, he suffered the public indignity of having his daily access to the President limited to a written memo, the first time in over 20 years that the National Security Adviser did not have a daily oral meeting with the Chief Executive...
...7 A subsidiary, the Moral Majority Legal Defense Fund, sees itself as a counter to the American Civil Liberties Union...
...As such, it worries some members of the Reagan Coalition, who fear the repercussions of the John Wayne shootfrom-the-hip style as much as the New Right loathes what it views as their mealy-mouthed bureaucratic double-talk...
...The Religious New Right The other side of the New Right is the politicized evangelist movement...
...And in the domestic arena, he has managed to push through all of the programs he has presented, I know my friends in New York will reconcile themselves to Reagan...
...In the Middle East, it has led to greater uncertainty while Europe increasingly appears as a future battleground in a nuclear war, pitting the United States against the Soviet Union...
...Edwin J. Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation, was head of Reagan's foreign aid transition team...
...Both would argue that there are...
...But the nature and scope of the establishment has undergone major species adaptation from the days when the Robber Barons dictated the direction of capitalist development from the mahogany-paneled dining cars of their private pullmans...
...National Conservative Political Action Committee A national network of political action committees, NCPAC is credited with the defeats of liberal senators McGovern, Church, Culver and Bayh in 1980...
...Heritage Foundation, and became its first president...
...the Reagan Administration equivocates and Haig's potential "strategic consensus" is shattered...
...Ibid., pp...
...The hardliners have grown in power, and they abound in the Reagan Administration...
...His patron is the Colorado millionaire brewer, Joseph Coors...
...The tip of the iceberg is the vicious backbiting of key advisers and the uncomely struggle to hold important foreign policy posts...
...radical criticism and 'anti-Americanism;' poverty programs and looting...
...Work is to develop ideological defense of capitalism and revitalize "mediating structures "-family, home, church, neighborhood-of American society...
...Hubert Humphrey was their champion...
...The most aggressively political is the ReverendJerry Falwell, pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia...
...Whether they are guided at this point by nothing other than the messianic vision that emanates from their more verbose ideologues or whether in fact that vision represents the rudiments of a more comprehensive strategic analysis remains to be seen...
...A former Wallace supporter, Viguerie JulylAugust 1516 NACLA Report The New Right Network a The National Right to Work Committee Claiming 1.25 million members, it works for the open shop and anti-labor legislation...
...Members of Denton's subcommittee include Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah from whose office came the rumor that such organizations as the Institute for Policy Studies, Mother Jones and NACLA might be subjects of the subcommittee's inquiry...
Vol. 15 • July 1981 • No. 4
