- Page 34: The Heritage Foundation is proud to have played a small but pivotal role in that story. … Heritage launched the Mandate for Leadership project. We brought together hundreds of conservative scholars and academics across the conservative movement.
- Together, this team created a 20-volume, 3,000-page governing handbook containing more than 2,000 conservative policies to reform the federal government and rescue the American people from Washington dysfunction. It was a promise from the conservative movement to the country—confident, specific, and clear.
- Mandate for Leadership was published in January 1981—the same month Ronald Reagan was sworn into his presidency.
- By the end of that year, more than 60 percent of its recommendations had become policy
Mandate for Leadership
It should be noted that Reagan:
- Reversed the fairness doctrine – the equal time for reporting rules
- Deregulated the airwaves, making way for todays 100% corporate owned media system
- Started the trickle down system, where we borrow money and give it to the very people that created this plan.
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