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Wattenberg: Irving Kristol, the 'godfather of neoconservatism'

Source: The Washington Times

Washington : DC : USA | 2 months ago

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Irving Kristol, the "godfather of neoconservatism," died Friday at age 89. I first met him when I joined the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) in Washington, a think tank, a peculiarly American institution that has spread around the world, in large part because of Irving's...

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