"He turned to Colorado beer magnate Joseph Coors and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review publisher Richard Mellon Scaife for the funding to start the Heritage Foundation. He served as its first president and after three years left to start the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress. With only $5,000 from Coors, CSFC engaged Richard Viguerie to start a direct-mail campaign and eventually raised $500,000 for conservatives in 1974.
"The many groups he established trained a generation of conservative politicians, including Gingrich and former vice president Dan Quayle."
Patricia Sullivan in The Washington Post writes an obit for Paul M. Weyrich.
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