HERALDS OF REAGANISM LAUD REGNERY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100200009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 26, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
26 July 1985
Heralds of Reaganism laud Refinery
By George Archibald
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
GG
he ubiquitous group;' as
longtime conservative
politico Marvin Liebman
calls them, was gathered
to pay homage to book publisher
Henry Regnery, whose authors over
most of the past four decades sowed
the seeds of the Reagan revolution.
"The early people in the trenches
are all here;' said Eugene Meyer, son
of the late Frank S. Meyer, whose "In
Defense of Freedom: A Conserva-
tive Credo" is one of many Regnery
classics.
And indeed they were: more than
400 of the Right's best-known
authors, political commentators,
intellectual heavies, administration
officials, and political activists from
all strains of the conservative move-
ment.
Old Right, New Right, Neo-
Conservative and Libertarian were
brought together by Young
America's Foundation and the Inter-
collegiate Studies Institute for a tri-
bute to the founder of the weekly'
conservative newspaper Human
Events and Regnery Gateway pub-
lishers.
Luminaries attending the black_
tie droner Wednesday evening at the
Mayflower Hotel included CIA
Director William Casey; Rep. Jack F..
Kemp, R-N.Y., who was the dinner
speaker; retired Army Gen. William
Westmoreland; and Donald J.
Devine, former director of the
Office of Personnel Management.
"The first rampart of peaceful
revolution is the printing press;'
wrote President Reagan in a letter
written for a special reprint of Mr.
Regnery's "Memoirs of a Dissident
Publisher," first published in 1979,
which every dinner guest received.
"In the early days of the resurgent
movement among conservative
intellectuals, in the 1950s," wrote the
president, "it was Henry Regnery
who possessed the vision to draw
together and publish landmark
books, such as Russell Kirk's 'The
Conservative Mind' and 'God and
Man at Yale; a volume by a recent
Yale graduate which launched a bril-
liant career for the man - Bill Buck-
ley - whom many call the godfather
of the conservative movement.'
Mr. Regnery is "a publisher of
conviction and idealism," who
rejected the path of fortune and
blockbuster books in favor of "books
that mattered;' said author Donald
Lambro.
Mr. Lambro's Regnery-published
books include "Fat City," "The Fed-
eral Rathole;' and "City of Scandals:
Washington Waste Exposed;' said
syndicated columnist M. Stanton
Evans, who served as master of
ceremonies.
Columnist William Buckley, who
was unable to attend the dinner, dis-
closed in a message that Mr. Reg-
nery's decision in 1951 to publish
"God and Man at Yale" lost the pub-
lisher "a lucrative account with the
University of Chicago for daring to
exercise the doctrine of academic
freedom advertised by all American
colleges and practised by virtually
none:'
Rep. Kemp said Mr. Regnery's
insistence on publishing books that
promoted "old traditions and old
principles that were worth saving"
had spearheaded "a conservative
intellectual revolution that is the
underlying cause of our political
revolution" to change the dominance
of the political parties.
Regarded by many conservative
leaders as a top contender for the
1988 GOP presidential nomination,
Mr. Kemp joked that the Regnery
company's fall listing of new books
includes "1,000 Seconds: The Pres-
idential Memoirs of George Bush:'
The audience roared its approval.
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