Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1942, Oct. 7 | Born, Racine, Wis. |
| 1960-1962 | Student, University of Wisconsin, Racine, Wis. |
| 1960-1964 | Active in Racine County Young Republicans and Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign in Wisconsin |
| 1960-1966 | Radio announcer WFNY (Racine, Wis.); political reporter, WLIP and WAXO (Kenosha, Wis.); political reporter, Milwaukee Sentinel; political reporter and weekend anchor, WISN-TV (Milwaukee, Wis.), and news director, KQXI-TV (Denver, Colo.) |
| 1963 | Married Joyce Anne Smigun |
| 1967-1970 | Press secretary and staff assistant on transportation, Colorado Senator Gordon L. Allott |
| 1968 | Joined Byzantine Rite Roman Catholic Church |
| 1971 | Established Analysis and Research, Inc., providing conservative public policy analysis |
| 1973-1976 | Special assistant and consultant, Nebraska Senator Carl T. Curtis |
| 1973 | Cofounder with Edwin Feulner and Joseph Coors, Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C. Cofounder, American Legislative Exchange Council (director, 1975-1978) Co-organizer with Edwin Feulner and Congressman Phil Crane of Illinois of the Republican Study Committee |
| 1974-2008 | Founded Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress with support from Joseph Coors, in 1977 renamed Free Congress Research and Education Foundation and commonly known as the Free Congress Foundation (President, 1977-2002, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 1996-2008) |
| 1977 | Cofounded Christian Voice with Robert Grant |
| 1979 | Coined phrase “Moral Majority” used by Jerry Falwell and worked with him to coordinate political activism among conservative Protestant and Catholic evangelicals |
| 1980-1990 | Conservative Digestcolumnist (senior editor, 1985-1988, and copublisher 1988) |
| 1981-2008 | Member, Council for National Policy, serving as treasurer, 1981-1992, and on executive board, 1992-2008 |
| 1987-1993 | Member, Amtrak Board of Directors |
| 1989-1996 | President, Krieble Institute of Free Congress Foundation, promoting democracy and capitalism in the former Soviet Bloc |
| 1990 | Ordained as deacon, Holy Transfiguration Melkite Greek Catholic Church, McLean, Va. |
| 1993-1997 | Directed National Empowerment Television (NET), rebranded as NET-Political NewsTalk Network, 1995-1997 |
| 1998-2002 | Vice chairman, Amtrak Reform Council |
| 2008, Dec. 18 | Died, Fairfax, Va. |
| 2009 | Posthumous publications, with William Lind, by the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, Alexandria, Va.: The Next Conservatism: Paul Weyrich’s Last Testament. South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine’s Press; and Moving minds: Conservatives and Public Transportation. Alexandria, Va.: Free Congress Foundation |