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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Alfred S. Regnery</b> is President of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Regnery_Publishing" title="Regnery Publishing" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Regnery Publishing</a> and a director of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Eagle_Publishing" title="Eagle Publishing" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Eagle Publishing</a>. Regnery is also the publisher of The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Spectator" title="American Spectator" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Spectator</a>, a right-wing magazine.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Alfred is also a practicing attorney and is Of Counsel to the Washington Law firm of Keller and Heckman. He served as Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General<b>, Land and Natural Resources Division, both at the U.S. Department of Justice</b>, between 1981 and 1986. Previously he served as Minority Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee and Chief Minority Counsel, Administrative Practice and Procedure Subcommittee. Prior to government service he practiced law for six years in Madison, Wisconsin," his biogrpahical note states.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Mr. Regnery serves on the boards of directors of several corporations and non-profit organizations, including The Washington Bach Consort (President), <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_International_Studies&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Institute for International Studies (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Institute for International Studies</a>, The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, The Phillips Foundation, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Foreign_Policy_Council" title="American Foreign Policy Council" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Foreign Policy Council</a>. He is chairman of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_American_Studies&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Foundation for American Studies (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Foundation for American Studies</a>, Washington, D.C., a grant making charitable foundation," his biographical note states.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; font-size: 12px; display: table; zoom: 1; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; 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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His father was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Regnery" title="Henry Regnery" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Henry Regnery</a> (1912-1996), founder of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing" title="Regnery Publishing" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Regnery Publishing</a>, a conservative publishing house founded in 1947.<sup id="cite_ref-commonwealth_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-commonwealth-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-chapman_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-chapman-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-brennan_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-brennan-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-isibio_7-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-isibio-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> He graduated from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloit_College" title="Beloit College" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Beloit College</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloit,Wisconsin" title="Beloit, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Beloit, Wisconsin</a> in 1965 and received a J.D. from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin_Law_School" title="University of Wisconsin Law School" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Wisconsin Law School</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison,Wisconsin" title="Madison, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Madison, Wisconsin</a> in 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-commonwealth_1-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-commonwealth-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-isibio_7-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-isibio-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He served as Legal Counsel to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican</a> Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laxalt" title="Paul Laxalt" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Paul Laxalt</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Nevada</a> and to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-town_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-town-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-isibio_7-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-isibio-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> From 1981 to 1986, he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Land and Natural Resources Division of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Department of Justice</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-commonwealth_1-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-commonwealth-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-americanspectator_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-americanspectator-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-isibio_7-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-isibio-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> In 1983, he was appointed by President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a> as Head of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Juvenile_Justice_and_Delinquency_Prevention" title="Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention</a>, and he worked on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meese_Report" title="Meese Report" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Meese Report</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-commonwealth_1-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-commonwealth-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> He is an attorney at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Washington, D.C.</a>-based law firm Keller and Heckman.<sup id="cite_ref-commonwealth_1-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-commonwealth-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He is the former President of Regnery Publishing.<sup id="cite_ref-commonwealth_1-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-commonwealth-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-town_3-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-town-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-isibio_7-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-isibio-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> From 2003 to 2012, he was the publisher of <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Spectator" title="The American Spectator" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The American Spectator</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-commonwealth_1-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-commonwealth-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-chapman_5-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-chapman-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-isibio_7-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-isibio-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> He was asked to resign by the Board of Directors of the American Spectator Foundation because of editorial differences.<sup id="cite_ref-chapman_5-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-chapman-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercollegiate_Studies_Institute" title="Intercollegiate Studies Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Intercollegiate Studies Institute</a> and as a Trustee of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Society" title="Philadelphia Society" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Philadelphia Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-americanspectator_2-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-americanspectator-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-isibio_7-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-isibio-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-isi_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_S.Regnery#cite_note-isi-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">cns = bs</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>http://cnsnews.com/news/article/conservative-al-regnery-resigns-publisher-american-spectator</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"><b>2/12 </b></font><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Al Regnery is the author of </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Upstream-Ascendance-Conservatism-Alfred-Regnery/dp/1416522883/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330041235&sr=8-1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 82, 145); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.5px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism</i></a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which was published in 2008 by Threshold Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.</span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" /><div><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">Alfred S. Regnery has served on the ISI board since 2002. He is the publisher of The American Spectator, a monthly journal of politics and culture. Previously he was the president and publisher of Regnery Publishing, Inc., the firm founded in 1947 by his father, Henry Regnery, who was formerly Chairman of the ISI Board. Mr. Regnery served in the Department of Justice during the Reagan Administration, as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and has practiced law in Washington and in the Midwest. He is a graduate of Beloit College and the University of Wisconsin Law School.</font></font></font></font></div><div>----</div><div>AKA Alfred S. Regnery</div><div>
</div><div>Born: 21-Nov-<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">1942</span></div><div>Birthplace: Chicago, IL</div><div>
</div><div>Gender: Male</div><div>Race or Ethnicity: White</div><div>Sexual orientation: Straight</div><div>Occupation: Publisher</div><div>Party Affiliation: Republican</div><div>
</div><div>Nationality: United States</div><div>Executive summary: The American Spectator</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In law school, Alfred Regnery's roommate was David Keene,</span> who went on to become chairman of the American Conservative Union. In 1976, only five years after getting his degree, Regnery ran for District Attorney in Wisconsin's Dane County, promising to "get tough on crime".<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> During the campaign, his wife reported that she was assaulted in their home, which could have provided great publicity for his law-and-order candidacy. Her story, though, was full of inconsistencies and impossibilities, and police came to doubt it was true</span>. Within days the investigation was closed at the family's request, and Regnery lost the election to Jim Doyle, who later became Wisconsin's Governor.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In the early 1980s Regnery was a prominent advocate for defunding the Legal Services Corporation, which provides lawyers for the poor. </span>He was appointed by Ronald Reagan to head the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 1983, and during his tenure Regnery was the unofficial head of Ed <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meese's</span> Commission on Pornography. The Commission concluded that pornography is harmful to society, a finding at odds with most scientific reports and contradicted by an earlier inquiry conducted by the Nixon administration. Furthering his office's effort to combat underage crime, Regnery signed off on an<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> exorbitant and noncompetitive $734,000 grant for Dr. Judith Reisman to research whether a link exists between pornography and juvenile crime, and he also authorized generous grants to Jerry Falwell's Liberty College and conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly.</span></div><div>
</div><div>His father, Henry Regnery, founded Regnery Publishing, the conservative publishing house that published William F. Buckley's first book in 1951.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> According to longtime CIA insider E. Howard Hunt, Regnery was, at least in its early years, subsidized by the CIA.</span> These days, the company publishes works by Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, Michelle Malkin, Oliver North, and others. The infamous "Swift Boat Veterans" book smearing John Kerry was published by Regnery.</div><div>
</div><div>When Alfred Regnery took over the company, he revived sluggish sales by adding a new generation of conservative authors, and he remained in charge even after selling it to Thomas L. Phillips in 1993. Under Regnery's leadership, the company published <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gary Aldrich's book claiming Hillary Clinton had lesbian affairs while First Lady and hung crack pipes from the White House Christmas tree, Emmett Tyrrell's book claiming that Bill Clinton had gone on cocaine benders as a young man and speculating that the KGB might have funded his collegiate visit to Soviet Moscow, and Ann Coulter's book arguing that there should be public debate "about whether to impeach or assassinate" President Clinton in the wake of his affair with Monica Lewinsky.</span></div><div>
</div><div>As part of Phillips Publishing International, Regnery Publishing is now a sister entity to such conservative voices as <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Human Events magazine, the Evans-Novak Political Report, the Conservative Book Club, and the Christian Family Book Club. Regnery himself left the company in 2003, to become publisher of the conservative American Spectator magazine.</span></div><div>
</div><div><font color="#ff0000">Regnery's grandfather, William H. Regnery, was founder of the America First Committee, a group which lobbied and argued against war on Nazi Germany.</font> Alfred Regnery's cousin, William Regnery II, is founder of the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Charles Martel Society, named for an eighth-century Christian warrior who defeated a Muslim army, </span>thus, in the Martel Society's view, preserving Europe for Christian civilization. The group publishes The<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Occidental Quarterly, promoting anti-immigration policies so enthusiastically it has been listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white supremacist organization. William Regnery II has also attempted to start a dating service for "heterosexual whites of Christian cultural heritage".</span></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">==
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<span id="lblBio" class="body">Alfred S. Regnery has served on the ISI board since 2002. He is the publisher of <i>The American Spectator</i>,a monthly journal of politics and culture. Previously he was the
president and publisher of Regnery Publishing, Inc., the firm founded in
1947 by his father, Henry Regnery, who was formerly Chairman of the ISI
Board. Mr. Regnery served in the Department of Justice during the
Reagan Administration, as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and
has practiced law in Washington and in the Midwest. He is a graduate of
Beloit College and the University of Wisconsin Law School.
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</span></font></a><p><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>AKA</b> Alfred S. Regnery</font></a></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"><b>Born:</b> </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/" class="proflink">21-Nov</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">-</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/" class="proflink">1942</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
<b>Birthplace:</b> </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/" class="proflink">Chicago, IL</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"><b>Gender:</b> Male
<b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White
<b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight
<b>Occupation:</b> </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/" class="proflink">Publisher</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
<b>Party Affiliation:</b> Republican</a></font></p><p><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Nationality:</b> United States
<b>Executive summary:</b> <i>The American Spectator</i></font></a></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">In law school, Alfred Regnery's roommate was </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">David Keene</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">,
who went on to become chairman of the American Conservative Union. In
1976, only five years after getting his degree, Regnery ran for District
Attorney in Wisconsin's Dane County, promising to "get tough on crime".
During the campaign, his wife reported that she was assaulted in their
home, which could have provided great publicity for his law-and-order
candidacy. Her story, though, was full of inconsistencies and
impossibilities, and police came to doubt it was true. Within days the
investigation was closed at the family's request, and Regnery lost the
election to </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Jim Doyle</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">, who later became Wisconsin's Governor.</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
In the early 1980s Regnery was a prominent advocate for defunding the
Legal Services Corporation, which provides lawyers for the poor. He was
appointed by </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Ronald Reagan</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
to head the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in
1983, and during his tenure Regnery was the unofficial head of </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Ed Meese</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">'s
Commission on Pornography. The Commission concluded that pornography is
harmful to society, a finding at odds with most scientific reports and
contradicted by an earlier inquiry conducted by the </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Nixon</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
administration. Furthering his office's effort to combat underage
crime, Regnery signed off on an exorbitant and noncompetitive $734,000
grant for Dr. </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Judith Reisman</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"> to research whether a link exists between pornography and juvenile crime, and he also authorized generous grants to </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Jerry Falwell</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">'s Liberty College and conservative activist </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Phyllis Schlafly</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">.</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
His father, </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Henry Regnery</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">, founded Regnery Publishing, the conservative publishing house that published </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">William F. Buckley</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">'s first book in 1951. According to longtime CIA insider </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">E. Howard Hunt</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">, Regnery was, at least in its early years, subsidized by the CIA. These days, the company publishes works by </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Pat Buchanan</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">, </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Ann Coulter</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">, </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">David Horowitz</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">, </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Michelle Malkin</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">, </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Oliver North</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">, and others. The infamous "Swift Boat Veterans" book smearing </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">John Kerry</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"> was published by Regnery.</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
When Alfred Regnery took over the company, he revived sluggish sales by
adding a new generation of conservative authors, and he remained in
charge even after selling it to </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Thomas L. Phillips</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"> in 1993. Under Regnery's leadership, the company published </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Gary Aldrich</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">'s book claiming </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Hillary Clinton</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"> had lesbian affairs while First Lady and hung crack pipes from the White House Christmas tree, </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Emmett Tyrrell</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">'s book claiming that </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Bill Clinton</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
had gone on cocaine benders as a young man and speculating that the KGB
might have funded his collegiate visit to Soviet Moscow, and </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Ann Coulter</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">'s
book arguing that there should be public debate "about whether to
impeach or assassinate" President Clinton in the wake of his affair with
</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Monica Lewinsky</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">.</a></font></p><p><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
As part of Phillips Publishing International, Regnery Publishing is now a sister entity to such conservative voices as <i>Human Events</i> magazine, the <i>Evans-Novak Political Report</i>,
the Conservative Book Club, and the Christian Family Book Club. Regnery
himself left the company in 2003, to become publisher of the
conservative <i>American Spectator</i> magazine.</font></a></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
Regnery's grandfather, </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">William H. Regnery</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">,
was founder of the America First Committee, a group which lobbied and
argued against war on Nazi Germany. Alfred Regnery's cousin, William
Regnery II, is founder of the </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Charles Martel</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
Society, named for an eighth-century Christian warrior who defeated a
Muslim army, thus, in the Martel Society's view, preserving Europe for
Christian civilization. The group publishes <i>The Occidental Quarterly</i>,
promoting anti-immigration policies so enthusiastically it has been
listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white supremacist
organization. William Regnery II has also attempted to start a dating
service for "heterosexual whites of Christian cultural heritage".</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"><b>Father:</b> </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Henry Regnery</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"> (b. 1912, d. 18-Jun-1996)
<b>Mother:</b> Eleanor Scattergood Regnery
<b>Brother:</b> Henry F. Regnery (Regnery Publishing executive, d. 1979 plane crash)
<b>Sister:</b> Susan Schnitzler
<b>Sister:</b> Margaret Caron
<b>Wife:</b> Christina (4 children)
</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"> University: </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">BA, Beloit College (1965)</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
Law School: </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">JD, University of Wisconsin at Madison (1971)</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
</a></font></p><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"> The American Spectator</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"> Publisher (2003-)
</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Regnery Publishing</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
Member of the Board of </a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Eagle Publishing</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Meese Commission</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">American Foreign Policy Council</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">
</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Atlas Economic Research Foundation</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"> Templeton Freedom Awards Advisory Council
Foundation for American Studies
</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Intercollegiate Studies Institute</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"> Board of Trustees
</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/">Jamestown Foundation</a><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000108918/"> Advisory Board
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</font><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="592"><div><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">Murray Waas, "<a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=5d5ed82c-aa0d-4cac-b514-efdb892649c8"><font color="000000">Al Regnery's Secret Life: "The Pathetic Career of Reagan's Juvenile Justice Chief,"</font></a> <span style="font-style: italic">The New Republic</span>, June 23, 1986. </font></div>
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<div><p><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: bold">the story</span>: </font></p><p><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Untilearly June, Alfred Regnery was the administrator
of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in the Reagan Justice Department. In this
position Regnery
has faithfully followed the president's policy of seeking to abolish the office.</span> The office was
established in 1975
with the goal of removing juvenile offenders from adult jails and prisons and deinstitutionalizing status
offenders such as
truants. At least 81,000 juveniles nationwide remain in such faiclities, where they are at least eight
times as likely
to commit suicide than youths held in juvenile detention centers. Nevertheless Regnery and his supervisors
say that
the federal government needs to do nothing more.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">Regnery
abruptly resigned on May 21, saying he
wants to return to his family's publishing business. The resignation was treated by both the
administration and the press
as part of the usual comings and goings of administration personnel. Yet his decision caught his personal
secretary, his press
secretary, and his immediate superior in the Justice department by surprise. He had speaking
engagements lined up through
June, and had spoken to me about hisplans for the coming year, including developing programs for chronic
juvenile offenders
and funding more research on pornography. Regnery has been a controversial figure ever since he was
appointed to the job in
1983. With more of his questionable personal and professional behavior coming to light, it seems more likely
that Regnery
was doing both himself and his colleagues a favor by bowing out quickly.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">One
of the most disturbing
incidents occurred in 1976 and was never discussed in his confirmation hearings. In late October 1976
Regnery was winding
up a campaign to become district attorney in Madison, Wisconsin. His wife had called the police three
times in the weeks before
the election to complain of obscene phone calls and vandalism. Regnery held a press conference to charge
that his political
opponents were using "Watergate-style tactics" to force him out of the race. When his wife
called the police on
the afternoon of October 31, 1976, the charge was much more serious. Christina Regnery, who was eight
months pregnant, told
police that two men broke into her home and warned that her husband should drop out of the race for
district attorney. Then
she said the two men had cut her with an embroidery knife and forced her to have oral sex.</font></p><div id="article_ad" align="center"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div id="DartAd0"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div> </div><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">Thepolice investigation
concluded that Christina Regnery hadfabricated the entire incident--and Alfred Regnery told police that he
too had "given
serious thought" to that possibility. No neighbors had seen anything unusual, there was no sign
of forced entry in the
Regnery house, and no sign of struggle. In addition, although Christina Regnery had 73 slash marks on
her body, none was serious.
"Not a single cut required a stitch or a Band-Aid," said one law-enforcement official involved. The police
report
concluded that "the infliction of the wounds on Mrs. Regnery are still questionable and may have been
self-inflicted
or done by subjects known to her. There is no indication that any unknown subjects inflicted any of the
injuries." Regnery
and the police agreed that they would "pursue the possibility of self-inflicted injuries." The report
also said
that it was "decided at this time that Mr. Regnery would not disclose any of the circumstances surrounding
the incident."</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">Only
minutes later, however, Regnery told a newspaper reporter in the
hospital corridor, according to
the police report, "that his wife had been raped by a white male and a black male and had been stabbed.
... The wounds
had been stitched." Of course, his wife had never alleged that she was raped, she was clearly not the
victim of a stabbing,
and she had not required any stitches. But Regnery's false claims were useful to his campaign. The
headline in the Madison
paper, "Two Attack Wife of D.A. Candidate," seemed to substantiate Regnery's earlier charges.
Nevertheless,
Regnery lost the election.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"><strong>But this was</strong>not all the police investigation uncovered.
When police searched Regnery's home,shortly after the alleged assault, they found a cache of pornography,
including "several
catalogues for various prophylactic devices and erotica." The police also reported finding "a book with
numerous
color photos of various sexual gratification, including oral sex and placing of objects into the
vagina," a German sex
magazine, and a copy of <em>Penthouse.</em></font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">Sevenyears later, in mid-1983, Edwin Meese asked Regnery
to informally head the administration's anti-pornography campaign. The President's Commission
on Pornography, whose
report is due out soon, was set up with the help of a $125,000 grant provided by Regnery's Office of
Juvenile Justice.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">Regnery
denies that he is a hypocritical on the pornography issue. At first he
claimed that the police
report detailing the discovery of numerous catalogues and magazines was "a fabrication." He said he only
had "a
copy of <em>Playboy</em> or something like that." Then he said, "I think a friend of mine in Germany
sent me one
magazine and I had it around." When asked about all the items in the police report, he conceded, "I probably
had
a little [pornography] around the house, like I bet lots of people do." But Regnery denied that he was a
consumer of
pornography. "I wasn't then and I never have been. I don't use and I don't enjoy it."</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">This
was not the last time Regnery's personal behavior raised questions about his public career. The day
after Regnery's
first child was born, a Madison pediatrician named William Ylitalo was called in to treat the baby for a
medical emergency.
Ylitalo, citing doctor-patient confidentiality, has never specified exactly what occurred in the
hospital. But the doctor
came away convinced Regnery had showed anger and hostility toward him and the hospital staff. Dr.
Ylitalo was so distressed
by the incident that in 1983 he senta private letter to three U.S. senators recommending that they vote not
to confirm Regnery
as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice. "The appointee to this post should be a person who had
integrity
and is emotionally stable rather than someone whose moral honesty is questionable," he wrote. Regnery
says Ylitalo is
a "liar."</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">Dr.Ylitalo's letter compounded the controversy about Regnery's nomination.
Regnery was well connected but inexperienced. The son of Henry Regnery, the conservative publisher, he
had been a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> college
director of the Young Americans for Freedom, a Senate aide, and had served for a year in the Lands Division
of the Reagan
Justice Department. But he had neverheld a job remotely related to juvenile justice, and drove around town
with a bumper
sticker on his car that asked, "Haveyou slugged your kid today?" </span>His explanation during his Senate
confirmation
hearings was, "I try to keep a senseof humor about the things I do."</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">During
those hearings
Senator Howard Metzenbaum asked Regnery, "What have you done with respect to juvenile justice matters as
far as studying
the issues?" This is the exchange that followed:</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"><em>Regnery: </em>I have done considerable
reading and other study on the juvenile courts system. </font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"><em>Metzenbaum</em>: Tell us some of the
works you have read concerning juvenile justice.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"><em>Regnery: </em>I guess I cannot give you a list
of them off the top of my head.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"><em>Metzenbaum</em>: Can you give us any?</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"><em>Regnery</em>:
Well, they are in my office. I cannot think of the titles and the authors, but they are either in my
office or my home. I
have read quite a number I have alsostudied the issue of juvenile courts. I have studied the issue of
juvenile corrections.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"><em>Metzenbaum</em>: How did you study the issue of juvenile courts?</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"><em>Regnery</em>:
Reading.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"><em>Metzenbaum</em>: What did you read?</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"><em>Regnery</em>: Various
books and articles.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"><em>Metzenbaum</em>: What books?</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman"><em>Regnery</em>:
I will have to give them to you. I cannot remember all the titles of the books I have read, Senator.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">
<strong>I<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">n office</span></strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
Regnery devoted himself to issues that had little to do with juvenile
justice. He was criticized
by Republicans and Democrats alike for awarding a $186,710 grant to a dean at Jerry Falwell's Liberty
College for the
purpose of designing a high-school course on the Constitution. He drew even more bipartisan criticism when
he awarded $789,000
to Judith Reisman, a former songwriter for the "Captain Kangaroo" show, to do a study of the
cartoons in <em>Penthouse,
Playboy, </em>and <em>Hustler</em>. </span></font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Reismanhad been recommended to Regnery by his chief deputy,
James Wooton, who was impressed by Reisman's allegations that Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the renowned pioneer sex
researcher of
the 1940s, had gotten all of his data on child sexuality from "a 63-year-old man who had sex with over
800 children."
Wooton arranged for Reisman to meet Regnery. This meeting led to Reisman's getting the grant.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">Resiman
later stated in a memo found in Regnery's files that she had been given the money in part "to conclude
research on
the Kinsey data on child sexuality."Regnery now denies this. "As far as I know," Regnery told me, "I
don't' think any of our money is going for that Kinsey stuff." Reisman did not return my phone calls.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong>The most extraordinary</strong>
example of Regnery's practice of doling out grants for political
purposes was
a $4.25 million grant given in January 1984 to set up a National School Safety Center at Pepperdine
University in California.
The grant recipient was a close friend and political associate of Meese named George Nicholson, who had
lost a bid to become
attorney general of California in November 1982.</span></font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">The
fact that Nicholson, who had no previous affiliation
with Pepperdine, received a noncompetitive grant just two months after losing the election attracted
some attention on Capitol
Hill. But Regnery assured a House subcommittee in April 1984 that there was nothing irregular about the
grant. He repeatedly
said that the administration had selected Pepperdine to sponsor the center, and that Pepperdine had in
turn selected Nicholson.
Both Regnery and Nicholson denied that Nicholson's friendship with Meese was instrumental in the awarding
of the grant.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">Yet
memos in Regnery's own files show that he misled Congress. The
administration privately agreed
to give Nicholson the $4.2 million well before Pepperdine was involved. And they gave him the grant as part
of a larger public
relations effort by the White House to protect the president on a sensitive issue.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">The
issue was
education. In late 1983 White House pollster Richard Wirthlin found that the American people disapproved of
the administration's
massive cuts in federal education spending by a margin of two to one. White House deputy counsel Michael
Deaver was called
on to mount a public relations campaign. If the administration wasn't going to change its policies, it
could change the
public's perceptions. </font></p><p class="articleText"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Atthe time Regnery was working with <font color="#ff0000">Gary Bauer</font>, assistant secretary
of education, on a report titled "Chaos in the Public Schools,</span>" an exaggerated portrait of mayhem in the
classroom.
For example, Regnery and Bauer asserted that there had been 2,400 cases of arson in public schools in
the previous year. They
neglected to mention, though, that the figure came from a National Institute of Education study that found
the arson incidents
cost an average of 39 cents each. Ingeneral, the report vastly overstated the problem of school violence.
Democratic representative
Pat Williams, who chairs the House Select Subcommittee on Education, pointed out that "students are between
four to eight
times safer, depending on which major crime you are talking about, in schools than they are in their own
homes."</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">But
the school violence theme was both emotionally powerful and politically
versatile. Bauer, an ally
of the religious right, was hoping to whip up public support for tuition tax credits. The Justice
Department was hoping outrage
at school violence could be used to weaken civil rights law. Roger Clegg, head of the Justice Depratment's
Office of Legal
Policy, wrote in a memo to Llowell Jensen, another top Justice Department official, proposing that the
administration claim
that civil rights laws undermined school discipline by allowing students to sue school authorities.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> He
suggested that the
school discipline issue could be thepretext for introducing legislation to give legal immunity from civil
rights legislation,
not just to school officials, but toall public officials. And of course, Michael Deaver and the White House
staff were delighted
with an issue that could be used to divert public attention from the president's unpopular education
spending cuts.</span></font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">
<strong>In a memo</strong>
dated November 15, 1983, Regnery urged the White House to schedule
a televised presidential fireside chat about the importance of discipline in the nation's public schools.
Two weeks later
Regnery wrote a memo to then-attorney general William French Smith, stating that the White House
"expressed considerable
interest in the proposal," and that he planned to give $4.2 million to Nicholson. "We plan to fund a school
safety
resource center. ... George Nicholson, the Republican candidate for Attorney General of California
in 1982 ... has tentatively
agreed to assist us in the endeavor." The memo never mentioned Pepperdine. Whether Meese had
anything to do with this
tentative agreement is still not known.</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">In
December 1983 the president embarked on an excellence
in education campaign, and the "Chaos in the Public Schools" report was released to reinforce this
blitz. On January
9, 1984, Reagan devoted his nationwide radio address to school discipline, and announced that
Nicholson had been awarded a
grant to establish the National School Safety Center. The irony was that Nicholson had not yet applied
for the grant. On January
11, 1984, Nicholson finally submitted a formal proposal for the $4.2 million grant that the
president had awarded him two
days earlier!</font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">Withina year and a half it became clear that Regnery and his superiors had
been far
more concerned about scoring public relations points than about actually establishing a worthwhile
institution. Regnery's
staff had been skeptical from the start that Nicholson was competent to run the School Safety Center.
During Nicholson's
tenure as director of the CaliforniaDistrict Attorneys Association in the late 1970s, the group almost went
bankrupt. Regnery
says he knew of allegations of Nicholson's mismanagement as director of the association when
considering the School Safety
Center grant, but approved the proposal anyway. Last summer, after<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> hearing numerous complaints about
Nicholson's administrative
practices, officials at Pepperdine ordered him to go on paid leave and then demoted him. </span></font></p><p class="articleText"><font color="000000" face="Times New Roman">Regnery
says that he is leaving the Justice Department because he has accomplished most of what he set out to do.
"We redirected
the way the whole criminal justice system regards juvenile crime," Regnery told the conservative <em>Washington Times</em>.
"We put together some programs and research that will have, over time, a significant impact for the
better."</font></p><font color="000000" size="2" face="Times New Roman">
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