![]() ![]() While still a Republican Edwards is now highly critical of both political parties and a leader of a na tional reform movement to (as the subtitle of his 2013 book annou nces) “turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans”. ![]() Bush’s presidential campaign, and was a foreign policy advisor to George W. He directed joint House-Senate task forces advising Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign, served on a congressional steering committee advising George H. ![]() Mickey chaired the policy task forces for the Reagan presidential campaignĮdwards was a member of Congress for 16 years, rising from back-bencher to one of his party’s top leadership positions, chairing his party’s policy committee, and serving as a ranking member of both the House Appropriations and Budget committees and the House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations.Īs a Republican – and as a conservative when American conservatism was considerably different than it is today – he was one of the three founding trustees of the Heritage Foundation and national chairman of both the American Conservative Union and Washington’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference. ![]() Mickey Edwards has built not one but a series of overlapping careers – a political leader, a reformer, a journalist, a teacher, an author, a public speaker, an activist, and a mentor to some of the nation’s most prominent public figures. ![]()
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