american enterprise institute
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), based in Washington D.C., has been a leading member of the neoconservative advocacy community for nearly three decades and is one of the more prominent U.S. policy institutions. [1]
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a conservative think tank, founded in 1943. [2]
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a private, nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution dedicated to research and education on issues of government, politics, economics, and social welfare. [3]
Former Vice President Dick Cheney delivers an address at the American Enterprise Institute. [4]
Representative Dick Cheney (R-WY) publishes an essay for the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI), apparently written either by his Iran-Contra commission colleague Michael Malbin or by Cheney and Malbin together, but printed under Cheney’s name. [5]
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is one of the oldest and most influential of the pro-business right-wing think tanks. [6]
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is an extremely influential, pro-business, conservative think tank founded in 1943 by Lewis H. Brown. [7]
Among the prominent former government officials now affiliated with AEI are former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, now an AEI senior fellow; former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, now an AEI visiting scholar; former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, now an AEI senior fellow; and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (and wife of former Vice President Dick Cheney) Lynne Cheney, a longtime AEI senior fellow. [2]
Cheney Selected as Secretary of Defense - Shortly after the essay is published, President George H.W. Bush names Cheney as his secretary of defense. [...] Cheney was scheduled to give a talk based on the essay at AEI, but cancels it and goes to Washington to begin preparing for confirmation hearings in the Senate. [...] The essay is titled “Congressional Overreaching in Foreign Policy,” and covers what he terms “congressional aggrandizement” of presidential powers. [...] Lauded by Neoconservatives - Richard Perle calls the book “splendid and wholly convincing,” while Paul Wolfowitz calls it a “provocative and disturbing book.” [5]
“Paul Wolfowitz vowed to continue in political life after he steps down as president of the World Bank this weekend following an internal revolt. [8]
President Bush highlighted the enormous influence the institute had in his administration during a January 2003 speech at an AEI dinner celebrating neoconservative forefather Irving Kristol. [1]
The Institute’s community of scholars is committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. [3]
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[1] Political Research Associates - Right Web - Profile - American …
[2] American Enterprise Institute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] AEI - AEI’s Organization and Purposes
[4] American Enterprise Institute
[5] American Enterprise Institute
[6] American Enterprise Institute | Right Wing Watch
[7] American Enterprise Institute - SourceWatch
[8] American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research