that brought Ronald Reagan into the White House in the 1980 presidential election. The New Right was organized in the American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation to counter the so-called "liberal establishment", which they viewed as a contributor to corruption and mismanagement of the federal government. In elite think tanks and local community organizations alike, new policies, marketing strategies, and electoral strategies were crafted over the succeeding decades to promote strongly conservative policies. The second New Right objected to a perceived decline in morality, including increased drug use, more public and open displays of sexuality, rising crime rates, race riots and unrest from civil rights protesters, and Vietnam War protesters. Second New Right figures: George H. W. Bush, 41st president of the United States, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Director of Central Intelligence, businessman, humanitarian George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States Terry Dolan, founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee Jerry Falwell, Southern Baptist minister, founder of Liberty University and Moral Majority Newt Gingrich, former Congressman, Speaker of the House, candidate for the Presidency of the United States, author Robert Grant, Christian right activist and founder of Christian Voice Rush Limbaugh, nationally syndicated talk radio and former cable news host, author Milton Friedman, neoclassical economist of the Chicago school of economics, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Howard Phillips, founder of The Conservative Caucus Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States, actor, 33rd governor of California, union leader Phyllis Schlafly, anti-feminist activist and founder of the Eagle Forum Richard Viguerie, direct mail activist Paul Weyrich, founder of The Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation See also Neoconservatism New Left Old Right (United States) One-nation conservatism References Further reading Andrews, Geoff; Cockett, Richard; Hooper, Alan; Williams, Michael (1999): New Left, New Right and Beyond. Taking the Sixties Seriously. Palgrave Macmillan. Arin, Kubilay Yado (2013): Think Tanks, the Brain Trusts of US Foreign Policy. Wiesbaden: VS Springer Betz, Hans-George. (1993) "The new politics of resentment: radical right-wing populist parties in Western Europe." Comparative politics (1993): 413–427. online Cunningham, Sean P. (2010). Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right Klatch, Rebecca E. (1999) A generation divided: The new left, the new right, and the 1960s (Univ of California Press, 1999). Lyons, Paul. (1996) New left, new right, and the legacy of the sixties (Temple University