Smith Richardson

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<h2 class="relation">Donald & Paula Smith Family Foundation past relationships:</h2>

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=<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/">http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/</a>Although often associated with the passel of foundations that buttress the American right-wing—including, among others, the <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/398.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Scaife</a>, <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1447.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Castle Rock</a>, and <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1441.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Bradley</a> Foundations—the Smith Richardson Foundation (SRF) donated the vast majority of its nearly $170 million in grants during 1996-2005 to educational institutions and scholarly endeavors. Its two largest grantees during that period were Yale and Harvard, both of which received more than $7 million. However, coming in at a not-so-distant fourth place was the <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1431.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">American Enterprise Institute</a> (AEI), a cornerstone think tank of neoconservatism, which received just under $6 million during the period.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn1" name="ednref1" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a> From 2009 to 2012, AEI received an additional $2.7 million from SRF.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn2" name="ednref2" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a>Created in 1935 by H. Smith Richardson, son of medicine entrepreneur Lunsford Richardson, the inventor of Vicks VapoRub, the foundation is managed by members of the Richardson family, whose various drug companies have created a number of well-known products, including Clearasil, Nyquil, and Oil of Olay cream.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn3" name="ednref3" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a><img src="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/smith-richardson-foundation1.jpg" alt="" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: right; margin: 20px 0px 20px 20px; border: 4px solid rgb(240, 240, 240) !important; height: auto !important;" />The foundation's mission is to "contribute to important public debates and to help address serious public policy challenges facing the United States” and to “help ensure the vitality of our social, economic, and governmental institutions.” The foundation also “seeks to assist with the development of effective policies to compete internationally and to advance U.S. interests and values abroad.”<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn4" name="ednref4" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a>The foundation has two principal grant making programs: the Domestic Public Policy Program and the International Security and Foreign Policy Program. According to the its website, the International Security and Foreign Policy Program aims to assist the “U.S. policy community in developing effective national security strategies and foreign policies.”<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn5" name="ednref5" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a>Together with the <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/olin.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Olin</a> and Bradley Foundations, Smith Richardson has been a key supporter of AEI since the 1980s, when the think tank emerged as an influential policy shop.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn6" name="ednref6" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a> SRF also helped foster the work of early neoconservative figures like <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/decter/decter.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Midge Decter</a>, <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/podhoretz/podhoretz.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Norman Podhoretz</a>, and <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/kristol_i/kristol_i.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Irving Kristol</a> through its support of the various institutions they have been helped lead, including The Public Interest, Commentary, and the <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/cpd.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Committee on the Present Danger</a>.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn7" name="ednref7" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a>Today, despite its support for centrist-oriented think tanks like the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment,<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn8" name="ednref8" title="" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a> the foundation remains a major financier of neoconservatism, funding several other organizations frequently associated with that political faction, including <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1476.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Freedom House</a>, the <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1480.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Hudson Institute</a>, the <a href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Hoover_Institution" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Hoover Institution</a>, the <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Foreign_Policy_Research_Institute" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Foreign Policy Research Institute</a>, the <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Jamestown_Foundation" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Jamestown Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/institute_for_the_study_of_war" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Institute for the Study of War</a>, and the <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/3734.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Manhattan Institute</a>.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn9" name="ednref9" title="" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">[9</a><a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn9" name="ednref9" title="" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">]</a> SRF’s Board of Governors also includes numerous high-profile hawkish figures like former General <a href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/keane_jack/" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Jack Keane</a>, former CIA Director <a href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Woolsey_James" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">James Woolsey</a>, and former George W. Bush administration official and <a href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Foundation_for_Defense_of_Democracies" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Foundation for Defense of Democracies</a> board member <a href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Dobriansky_Paula" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Paula Dobriansky</a>.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn10" name="ednref10" title="" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a>From Reagan to Today<a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/524.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Leslie Lenkowsky</a>, SRF's director of research in the early 1980s who later served as head of the Corporation for National and Community Service in the George W. Bush administration, once said of the foundation’s work: "We don't create ideas, we nurture them, a bit like fertilizer. … If the sprout is there, we make it grow into a mighty oak."<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn11" name="ednref11" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a> In particular, Lenkowsky thought that Podhoretz's and Kristol's ideas would "have a long-term impact" on how people thought about public affairs.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn12" name="ednref12" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a>Building on this support, Kristol helped convince Smith Richardson to back Jude Wanniski's research on supply side economics. Wanniski's publications served as a guide for Ronald Reagan's economic policies when <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/kemp/kemp.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Jack Kemp</a>, convinced of the theory's merits by Kristol, brought it to Reagan's attention.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn13" name="ednref13" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[13]</a>Lenkowsky also oversaw SRF's efforts to fund college newspapers, including The Dartmouth Review, where a young <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/3984.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Dinesh D'Souza</a> got his start. As editor-in-chief, D'Souza used the newspaper to out homosexual students by investigating subscribers, including their parents. Files from the university's Gay Student Alliance, apparently stolen, appeared in the paper, some of which contained "names and parts of letters written by lonely students." D'Souza went on to be a key crusader against the so-called liberal bias in universities, beginning with his book Illiberal Education. SRF joined with other conservative foundations to fund much of this work.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn14" name="ednref14" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a><a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1112.html" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Devon Gaffney Cross</a> succeeded Lenkowsky as SRF's director of research, serving two years in that post during the mid-1980s. Gaffney Cross, the sister of Reagan-era defense official <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/gaffney/gaffney.php" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Frank Gaffney Jr.</a>—head of the hawkish <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/csp.php" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Center for Security Policy</a>—has also served as a director of the neoconservative advocacy group the <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1535.html" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Project for the New American Century</a> and worked as an advisor to the Lincoln Group, the controversial "strategic communication management" firm that was awarded a Pentagon contract to work in Iraq in 2004, "after military officials concluded that the United States was failing to win over Muslim public opinion."<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn15" name="ednref15" title="" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a>In 1981, SRF provided seed money for the <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/prodemca.php" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America</a> (Prodemca), a hardline group involved in implementing U.S. foreign policy in Central America. In 1986, a member of Prodemca's executive committee, <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/kemble/kemble.php" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Penn Kemble</a>, an early neoconservative trailblazer, told the Washington Post that the <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/ned.php" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">National Endowment for Democracy</a> (NED), another SRF grant recipient, had given his group $400,000. According to Sidney Blumenthal, Prodemca had been "funneling most of the money to opponents of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua." Prodemca spokespersons denied using NED-supplied monies to secure newspaper ads supporting U.S. funding for the Contras.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn16" name="ednref16" title="" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a>Also in the early 1980s, Smith Richardson teamed up with other conservative foundations to support the Capital Legal Foundation, which in 1984 was involved in defending Gen. William Westmoreland in his suit against CBS for a documentary made about his Vietnam years. The lawsuit turned political when Westmoreland's lawyers complained that the law firm CBS employed was creating an unequal playing field in the courtroom. CBS lawyers countered that conservative philanthropies such as Scaife (the largest backer), Olin, and Smith Richardson were "using the general to advance their own objectives: to legitimize the Vietnam War, intimidate the media, and lower the legal obstacles to libel judgments."<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn17" name="ednref17" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[17]</a>In 2000, SRF provided startup funds to the Dui Hua Foundation, an <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/iri.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">International Republican Institute</a>-sponsored organization that addresses issues concerning Chinese political prisoners. Also regarding China, SRF sponsored a RAND study that analyzed hypothetical scenarios were the United States to defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn18" name="ednref18" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a>In January 2012, SRF senior program officer Nadia Schadlow wrote critically of President Obama’s national security strategy in the <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Weekly_Standard" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Weekly Standard</a>. “There may be arguments for reducing the size of America’s ground forces, with perhaps the most straightforward being that we cannot afford the cost of them. And the United States may decide to become less interventionist and try to reduce the use of ground troops,” she opined. “But the line of thinking that now pervades the Pentagon avoids recognizing that combat and the restoration of political order go hand and hand. Any large scale intervention by U.S. ground forces—and the Pentagon has said that United States Army and the Marine Corps should be able to undertake at least one major regional contingency—will involve the need to restore basic political order.”<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn19" name="ednref19" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[19]</a>SRF has also been a major backer of controversial domestic policy programs and causes. It supported the Center for Individual Rights (CIR), which has litigated free speech cases and advocated against "political correctness" codes—most notably by defending professors accused of sexually harassing students. Said CIR's director of research, Robert R. Detlefsen: "Many of our clients would be white male college professors because these are the folks who find themselves victimized by political correctness."<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn20" name="ednref20" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[20]</a>The foundation supported the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, a research initiative created to assess the business impact of environmental regulations, which in 2001 was given the dubious distinction of being named the Clean Air Villain of the Month by the Clean Air Trust. Described as a "polluter friendly" organization, the trust accused the center of trying to associate smog cleanup operations with higher cases of skin cancer among the population.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn21" name="ednref21" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a> Then-AEI president <a href="https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1118.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Christopher DeMuth</a>was a contributing analyst to the project; Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston represented Brookings.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn22" name="ednref22" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[22]</a>Legal ProblemsIn November 2003, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal opened an investigation into the funding practices of Smith Richardson and the Beinecke Foundation—both based in Connecticut. The Boston Globe reported that SRF's top executives—Peter Richardson, Marin Strmecki, and Robert L. Coble—had their vehicles paid for by the foundation. Richardson, whose annual salary at the time was $364,000, drove a $63,000 Audi A8 luxury sedan, while the other two, whose annual salaries were $225,000, owned an Audi station wagon and Jeep Cherokee, respectively, which each cost roughly $36,000.<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn23" name="ednref23" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[23]</a>Reported the Boston Globe: "In an interview, Richardson said he could not recall how the cars were approved by the foundation, which funds public policy research. Of his Audi, Richardson said, "I wanted to get a safe sedan." Smith Richardson also spent $6,700 for a portrait of a family benefactor, $2,600 on a chair, and bought four lamps at $1,300 a piece."<a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/smith_richardson_foundation/#edn24" name="ednref24" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[24]</a><a href="https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/6/9/the-smith-richardson-foundations-neoconservative-legacy.html">https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2016/6/9/the-smith-richardson-foundations-neoconservative-legacy.html</a>As the Bush administration recedes into history, the neoconservative school still makes its influence known. Most recently, this crew helped lead the charge against Donald Trump, with Donald Kagan and William Kristol—neoconservative figures—blasting the presumptive GOP nominee. Like many influential worldviews in Washington, neoconservative thought didn’t emerge fully formed from the wellspring of American public sentiment. It was nurtured, and the Connecticut-based Smith Richardson Foundation is one key nurturer.Compared to other major conservative policy funders—think Bradley, Scaife, and Olin—Smith Richardson's most distguishing trait is its heavy focus on foreign policy: the U.S. as beacon to the world. That story begins with the philosophy of its founder, H. Smith Richardson, a firm believer in American exceptionalism. For Richardson, “America, the new world…has offered to humble families, native born or immigrant, the Opportunity [sic] to gain a fortune… if they were diligent and lucky.”That creed underpins a vigorous history of grantmaking to think tanks and universities to support policy that the foundation sees as protecting American security and extending American influence. (Critics, of course, might have a different take.) The money’s source is Vicks, manufacturer of Vicks VapoRub, NyQuil and DayQuil. Now owned by Proctor & Gamble, Vicks got its start as a purveyor of cold remedies under H. Smith Richardson’s father, Lunsford Richardson.  While it's been around since 1935, the Smith Richardson Foundation began its modern career in the 1980s. Back then, the Cold War was in its final stages, President Reagan was in the White House, and manifest destiny was back in style with a modern twist. During those years, the foundation backed the rise of neoconservative ideas, fostering work by Irving Kristol, Penn Kemble, and others. Devon Gaffney Cross, a foundation research director at that time, later became a director of the Project for the New American Century, the prominent neoconservative group formed in 1997, which was widely credited with mainstreaming the idea of "regime change" in Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein power.In recent years, the Smith Richardson Foundation has supported big names in conservative and neoconservative policy research. Some notables are the American Enterprise Institute (nearly $10 million since 1998), the Hudson Institute ($5,543,000), the Jamestown Institute ($5,163,000), Freedom House ($4,302,000), the Hoover Institution ($3,521,000), the Manhattan Institute ($2,232,000), and the Center for a New American Security ($1,595,000). Smith Richardson has also been a prominent backer of Dui Hua, an organization dedicated to protecting human rights, American-style, in China.The foundation has also given numerous grants to prominent universities and centrist policy shops like Rand and Brookings.And foreign policy isn’t the only focus. Smith Richardson breaks its grantmaking programs into two categories: International Security & Foreign Policy and Domestic Public Policy, emphasizing economic growth. Policy research is key, but the domestic portfolio includes some direct service programs.With total assets of $518 million and grants totalling nearly $22 million in 2014, Smith Richardson is a prominent player in the tight-knit conservative space. The foundation also remains firmly under Richardson family control. President and Board Chairman Peter L. Richardson is the nephew of longtime President R. Randolph Richardson, and family members dominate the list of trustees. Marin Strmecki, senior vice president and director of programs, has been a foreign policy advisor to the U.S. government numerous times during both Bush administrations and under President Nixon.Like many of its policy-oriented peers, Smith Richardson also operates a fellowship program. Two of them, actually. Its Strategy and Policy Fellows program supports several academics’ work per year with $60,000 grants, while the World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship awards 20 grants at $7,500 each to support Ph.D. dissertation research foreign policy and international security. Many of the funder’s copious individual grants to academic institutions also subsidize similar work.Related: <a href="https://david-callahan-hfwl.squarespace.com/funding-for-global-security/global-security-and-human-rights-draw-a-range-of-funders.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Funders for Global Security and Human Rights</a>IIIStetson is the grandson of Eugene W. Stetson, a corporate pioneer<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stetson#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> who was involved in early ownership of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola" title="Coca-Cola" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Coca-Cola</a> and expansions of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Central_Railroad" title="Illinois Central Railroad" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Illinois Central Railroad</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.P.Morgan%26_Co." title="J.P. Morgan & Co." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">J.P. Morgan & Co.</a>, and the great grandson Lunsford Richardson, a U.S. pharmacist and entrepreneur who founded the Vicks Chemical Company (which became Richardson <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicks" title="Vicks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Vicks</a> Inc.), which owned companies such as Vidal Sassoon and Pantene and created a number of well known products, including Vicks VapoRub, Clearasil, Nyquil, and Oil of Olay cream.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stetson#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> Stetson is married to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Watson_Stetson" title="Jane Watson Stetson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jane Watson Stetson</a>, National Finance Chair for the Democratic National Committee in the United States and granddaughter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson" title="Thomas J. Watson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thomas J. Watson</a>, the founder of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM" title="IBM" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">IBM</a>. They reside in Norwich, Vermont and Washington, DC with their three daughters Nancy, Katharine and Grace.

brulle 2013:

donor trust 14%

scaife 7%, bradley 5 plus 1% ed, koch 5, howard charatible fdn 4, john w pope 4, searle 4, templeton 4%, dunn's fdn for the adv of rt thinking 2, smith richardson 2%, vanguard 2, ...annenbeg kohler 2, Lilly 2%

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smith_Richardson_Foundation">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smith_Richardson_Foundation</a>

The Smith Richardson Foundation is financed by the Vicks Vaporub fortune ([post . flu pandemic] e Foundation reported assets of nearly $570 million in 2007 and gave away $25 million. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smith_Richardson_Foundation#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a>

The Foundation became active in supporting <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">conservative</a> causes in 1973 when R. Richardson Randolph became its president. Forbes estimates the Richardsons to have a net worth of $870 million, which makes it one of the U.S.'s richest families.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smith_Richardson_Foundation#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smith_Richardson_Foundation#Grantees" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1 Grantees</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smith_Richardson_Foundation#Foundation.27s_Forms_990" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">1.1 Foundation's Forms 990</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smith_Richardson_Foundation#Officers" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">2 Officers</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smith_Richardson_Foundation#Trustees" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">3 Trustees</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smith_Richardson_Foundation#Governors" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">4 Governors</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smith_Richardson_Foundation#Contact_Information" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">5 Contact Information</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smith_Richardson_Foundation#References" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">6 References</a></li>

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<h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto;">Grantees</h2>

The Foundation gave approximately $99,686,911 to a total of 266 grantees. Conservative and centrist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tanks" title="Think tanks" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">think tanks</a> that received substantial sums were:

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Strategic_and_International_Studies" title="Center for Strategic and International Studies" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Center for Strategic and International Studies</a>, $7,118,285</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">American Enterprise Institute</a>, $8,064,576</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Paul_H.Nitze_School_of_Advanced_International_Studies(SAIS)_at_John_Hopkins" title="Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at John Hopkins" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at John Hopkins</a>; $3,909,432</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Brookings_Institute" title="Brookings Institute" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Brookings Institute</a>, $5,173,348</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/RAND_Corporation" title="RAND Corporation" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">RAND Corporation</a>, $5,799,382</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hudson_Institute" title="Hudson Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Hudson Institute</a>, $3,263,060</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Institute_for_Public_Policy" title="National Institute for Public Policy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">National Institute for Public Policy</a>, $1,659,317</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Urban_Institute" title="Urban Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Urban Institute</a>, $2,848,245</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Freedom_House" title="Freedom House" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Freedom House</a>, Inc., $3,397,368</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_on_Foreign_Relations" title="Council on Foreign Relations" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Council on Foreign Relations</a>, $971,023</li>

</ul>

The Foundation has also given $65,000 to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Federation_for_American_Immigration_Reform" title="Federation for American Immigration Reform" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Federation for American Immigration Reform</a>, which the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center" title="Southern Poverty Law Center" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> has branded as a "hate group."

The Foundation funded the early 'supply-side' books of Jude Wanniski and George Gilder. It is also listed in the acknowledgements for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Dennis_King" title="Dennis King" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Dennis King's</a> study of the LaRouche movement,Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism (1989).

<h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; width: auto;">Foundation's Forms 990</h3>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Smith Richardson Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2011/560/611/2011-560611550-08bd1494-F.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaae5jrefuef5lykekgdambdf="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF" es="Es" qkiosicburxizjoozohmwex6gwmkcei="QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI" oqc2c1fnvnf2ejlqyu0tlk2njy6f="Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f" l8v12ti7uhffgdj19b58ewxuqkaaaaabjru5erkjggg="=" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">2011 Form 990</a>, foundation's IRS filing, November 12, 2012.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Smith Richardson Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2010/560/611/2010-560611550-07b879d4-F.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaae5jrefuef5lykekgdambdf="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF" es="Es" qkiosicburxizjoozohmwex6gwmkcei="QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI" oqc2c1fnvnf2ejlqyu0tlk2njy6f="Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f" l8v12ti7uhffgdj19b58ewxuqkaaaaabjru5erkjggg="=" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">2010 Form 990</a>, foundation's IRS filing, November 14, 2011.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Smith Richardson Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2009/560/611/2009-560611550-06893e12-F.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaae5jrefuef5lykekgdambdf="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF" es="Es" qkiosicburxizjoozohmwex6gwmkcei="QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI" oqc2c1fnvnf2ejlqyu0tlk2njy6f="Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f" l8v12ti7uhffgdj19b58ewxuqkaaaaabjru5erkjggg="=" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">2009 Form 990</a>, foundation's IRS filing, November 12, 2010.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Smith Richardson Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2008/560/611/2008-560611550-05780715-F.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaae5jrefuef5lykekgdambdf="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF" es="Es" qkiosicburxizjoozohmwex6gwmkcei="QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI" oqc2c1fnvnf2ejlqyu0tlk2njy6f="Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f" l8v12ti7uhffgdj19b58ewxuqkaaaaabjru5erkjggg="=" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">2008 Form 990</a>, foundation's IRS filing, November 11, 2009.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Smith Richardson Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2007/560/611/2007-560611550-04682b40-F.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaae5jrefuef5lykekgdambdf="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF" es="Es" qkiosicburxizjoozohmwex6gwmkcei="QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI" oqc2c1fnvnf2ejlqyu0tlk2njy6f="Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f" l8v12ti7uhffgdj19b58ewxuqkaaaaabjru5erkjggg="=" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">2007 Form 990</a>, foundation's IRS filing, November 3, 2008.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Smith Richardson Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2006/560/611/2006-560611550-037bf72c-F.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaae5jrefuef5lykekgdambdf="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF" es="Es" qkiosicburxizjoozohmwex6gwmkcei="QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI" oqc2c1fnvnf2ejlqyu0tlk2njy6f="Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f" l8v12ti7uhffgdj19b58ewxuqkaaaaabjru5erkjggg="=" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">2006 Form 990</a>, foundation's IRS filing, November 14, 2007.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Smith Richardson Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2005/560/611/2005-560611550-02a1e46d-F.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaae5jrefuef5lykekgdambdf="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF" es="Es" qkiosicburxizjoozohmwex6gwmkcei="QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI" oqc2c1fnvnf2ejlqyu0tlk2njy6f="Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f" l8v12ti7uhffgdj19b58ewxuqkaaaaabjru5erkjggg="=" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">2005 Form 990</a>, foundation's IRS filing, November 9, 2006.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Smith Richardson Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2004/560/611/2004-560611550-01e969c9-F.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaae5jrefuef5lykekgdambdf="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF" es="Es" qkiosicburxizjoozohmwex6gwmkcei="QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI" oqc2c1fnvnf2ejlqyu0tlk2njy6f="Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f" l8v12ti7uhffgdj19b58ewxuqkaaaaabjru5erkjggg="=" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">2004 Form 990</a>, foundation's IRS filing, November 14, 2005.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Smith Richardson Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2003/560/611/2003-560611550-1-F.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaae5jrefuef5lykekgdambdf="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF" es="Es" qkiosicburxizjoozohmwex6gwmkcei="QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI" oqc2c1fnvnf2ejlqyu0tlk2njy6f="Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f" l8v12ti7uhffgdj19b58ewxuqkaaaaabjru5erkjggg="=" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">2003 Form 990</a>, foundation's IRS filing, November 15, 2004.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Smith Richardson Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2002/560/611/2002-560611550-1-F.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaae5jrefuef5lykekgdambdf="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF" es="Es" qkiosicburxizjoozohmwex6gwmkcei="QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI" oqc2c1fnvnf2ejlqyu0tlk2njy6f="Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f" l8v12ti7uhffgdj19b58ewxuqkaaaaabjru5erkjggg="=" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">2002 Form 990</a>, foundation's IRS filing, May 15, 2003.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Smith Richardson Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2001/560/611/2001-560611550-1-F.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaae5jrefuef5lykekgdambdf="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF" es="Es" qkiosicburxizjoozohmwex6gwmkcei="QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI" oqc2c1fnvnf2ejlqyu0tlk2njy6f="Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f" l8v12ti7uhffgdj19b58ewxuqkaaaaabjru5erkjggg="=" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">2001 Form 990</a>, foundation's IRS filing, August 20, 2002.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Smith Richardson Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2000/560/611/2000-560611550-1-F.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaae5jrefuef5lykekgdambdf="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF" es="Es" qkiosicburxizjoozohmwex6gwmkcei="QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI" oqc2c1fnvnf2ejlqyu0tlk2njy6f="Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f" l8v12ti7uhffgdj19b58ewxuqkaaaaabjru5erkjggg="=" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">2000 Form 990</a>, foundation's IRS filing, May 20, 2001.</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Smith Richardson Foundation, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/1998/560/611/1998-560611550-1-F.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcaqaaaanowc2aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaae5jrefuef5lykekgdambdf="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF" es="Es" qkiosicburxizjoozohmwex6gwmkcei="QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI" oqc2c1fnvnf2ejlqyu0tlk2njy6f="Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f" l8v12ti7uhffgdj19b58ewxuqkaaaaabjru5erkjggg="=" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">1998 Form 990</a>, foundation's IRS filing, May 12, 1999.</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_L._Richardson" title="Peter L. Richardson" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Peter L. Richardson</a>, President, Chairman of the Board</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Marin_Strmecki" title="Marin Strmecki" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Marin Strmecki</a>, Senior Vice President, Director of Programs</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=W._Winburne_King_III&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="W. Winburne King III (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">W. Winburne King III</a>, General Counsel</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ross_F._Hemphill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ross F. Hemphill (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ross F. Hemphill</a>, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arvid_R._Nelson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arvid R. Nelson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Arvid R. Nelson</a>, Secretary</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Karla_W._Frank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karla W. Frank (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Karla W. Frank</a>, Assistant Secretary</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=W._Winburne_King_III&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="W. Winburne King III (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">W. Winburne King III</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Adele_Richardson_Ray" title="Adele Richardson Ray" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Adele Richardson Ray</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lunsford_Richardson,_Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lunsford Richardson, Jr. (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Lunsford Richardson, Jr.</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stuart_S._Richardson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stuart S. Richardson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Stuart S. Richardson</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/E._William_Stetson_III" title="E. William Stetson III" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">E. William Stetson III</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Honorable <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Zbigniew_Brzezinski" title="Zbigniew Brzezinski" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Zbigniew Brzezinski</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Christopher_DeMuth" title="Christopher DeMuth" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Christopher DeMuth</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Martin_Feldstein" title="Martin Feldstein" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Martin Feldstein</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stephen_Goldsmith" title="Stephen Goldsmith" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Stephen Goldsmith</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Roderick_MacFarquhar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roderick MacFarquhar (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Roderick MacFarquhar</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">General <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Edward_C._Meyer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward C. Meyer (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Edward C. Meyer</a> (Ret.)</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=June_E._O%27Neill&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="June E. O'Neill (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">June E. O'Neill</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jane_B._Preyer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jane B. Preyer (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Jane B. Preyer</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_L._Richardson" title="Peter L. Richardson" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Peter L. Richardson</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=E._William_Stetson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="E. William Stetson (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">E. William Stetson</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ben_Wattenberg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ben Wattenberg (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Ben Wattenberg</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/R._James_Woolsey" title="R. James Woolsey" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">R. James Woolsey</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Edward_F._Zigler&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward F. Zigler (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Edward F. Zigler</a></li>

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Smith Richardson Foundation

60 Jesup Road

Westport, CT 06880

Phone: 203 222-6222

FAX: 203 222-6282

URL: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.srf.org/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">http://www.SRF.org</a>

Legal Address:

701 Green Valley Road, Suite 300

Greensboro, NC 27408

Phone: 336 272-1772

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<li id="cite_note-0" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smith_Richardson_Foundation#cite_ref-0" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/Smith_Richardson_Foundation/financials" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Smith Richardson Foundation Financials at MediaTransparency.Org</a>, accessed September 2, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smith_Richardson_Foundation#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/funderprofile.php?funderID=6" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaagxrfwhrtb2z0d2fyzqbbzg9izsbjbwfnzvjlywr5ccllpaaaafzjrefuef59z4ejadeiq1f36k7u5e7zkxeuqpacj3wk7unokvxvk9khnqh7by9hbdydhnxgjprlqflo4m2ggfyjhhjq8v4agfrgpqx3jtjqgbofmchga="AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA" nakks="nAKks" jajfaaaaaelftksuqmcc="JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" background-position="background-position" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Smith Richardson Foundation Profile at MediaTransparency.Org</a>, accessed September 2, 2010.</li>

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900K to center for media and security

Financed by the Vicks VapoRub fortune, the Smith Richardson Foundation is estimated to have assets of about $250 million. It became active in supporting conservative causes in 1973, when R. Randolph Richardson became president. The foundation funded the early "supply-side" books of Jude Wanniski and George Gilder. The Richardsons are estimated by Forbes to have a net worth of $870 million, making them one of the country's richest families.

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perk scandal  http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Smith_Richardson_Foundation

Created in 1935 by H. Smith Richardson, son of medicine entrepreneur Lunsford Richardson, the inventor of Vicks VapoRub, the foundation is managed by members of the Richardson family, whose various drug companies have created a number of well known products, including Clearasil, Nyquil, and Oil of Olay cream.<a href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Smith_Richardson_Foundation/#edn2">2</a><a href="http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Smith_Richardson_Foundation/#edn2" id="ednref2" name="ednref2"> </a>

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<h3>Toward the “National Security State”</h3>

Prescott Bush was a most elusive, secretive Senator. By diligent research, his views on some issues may be traced: He was opposed to the development of public power projects like the Tennessee Valley Authority; he opposed the constitutional amendment introduced by Ohio Senator John W. Bricker, which would have required congressional approval of international agreements by the executive branch.

But Prescott Bush was essentially a covert operative in Washington.

On June 10, 1954, Bush received a letter from Connecticut resident H. Smith Richardson, owner of Vick Chemical Company (cough drops, Vapo-Rub):

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<dd>“ … At some time before Fall, Senator, I want to get your advice and counsel on a [new] subject–namely what should be done with the income from a foundation which my brother and I set up, and which will begin its operation in 1956…. ”@s1@s4</dd>

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This letter presages the establishment of the H. Smith Richardson Foundation, a Bush family-dictated private slush fund which was to be utilized by the Central Intelligence Agency, and by Vice President Bush, for the conduct of his Iran-Contra adventures.

The Bush family knew Richardson and his wife through their mutual friendship with Sears Roebuck’s chairman, Gen. Robert E. Wood. General Wood had been president of the America First organization, which had lobbied against war with Hitler Germany.

H. Smith Richardson had contributed the start-up money for America First and had spoken out against the U.S. “ joining the Communists ” by fighting Hitler. Richardson’s wife was a proud relative of Nancy Langehorne from Virginia, who married Lord Astor and backed the Nazis from their Cliveden Estate.

General Wood’s daughter Mary had married the son of Standard Oil president William Stamps Farish. The Bushes had stuck with the Farishes through their disastrous exposure during World War II (see Chapter 3). Young George Bush and his bride Barbara were especially close to Mary Farish, and to her son W.S. Farish III, who would be the great confidante of George’s presidency.@s1@s5

The H. Smith Richardson Foundation was organized by Eugene Stetson, Jr., Richardson’s son-in-law. Stetson (Skull and Bones, 1934) had worked for Prescott Bush as assistant manager of the New York branch of Brown Brothers Harriman.

In the late 1950s, the H. Smith Richardson Foundation took part in the “ psychological warfare ” of the CIA. This was not a foreign, but a domestic, covert operation, carried out mainly against unwitting U.S. citizens. CIA Director Allen Dulles and his British allies organized “ MK-Ultra, ” the testing of psychotropic drugs including LSD on a very large scale, allegedly to evaluate “ chemical warfare ” possibilities. In this period, the Richardson Foundation helped finance experiments at Bridgewater Hospital in Massachusetts, the center of some of the most brutal MK-Ultra tortures. These outrages have been graphically portrayed in the movie, Titticut Follies.

During 1990, an investigator for this book toured H. Smith Richardson’s Center for Creative Leadership just north of Greensboro, North Carolina. The tour guide said that in these rooms, agents of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Secret Service are trained. He demonstrated the two-way mirrors through which the government employees are watched, while they are put through mind-bending psychodramas. The guide explained that “ virtually everyone who becomes a general ” in the U.S. armed forces also goes through this “ training ” at the Richardson Center.

Another office of the Center for Creative Leadership is in Langley, Virginia, at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency. Here also, Richardson’s Center trains leaders of the CIA.

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Addendum (October 11): I’ve now located a more detailed description of <a href="http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?ct=ddl&sp=search&k=Markers&sv=J-112%20-%20LUNSFORD%20RICHARDSON%20%20%20%201854-1919" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; cursor: pointer; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px; border-radius: 5px;">the story</a> behind the Lunsford Richardson historical marker from the site of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources:

Lunsford Richardson, born in 1854 in Johnston County, was educated at the Horner and Graves Academy in Oxford and enrolled at <a href="http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?sp=search&k=Markers&sv=L-9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; cursor: pointer; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px; border-radius: 5px;">Davidson College</a> in 1872. His mother, who had raised Lunsford and his four siblings alone, died the following year, leaving Richardson with enough money for only three years at Davidson. Richardson graduated from Davidson in 1875—number two in his class and with medals in Greek, Latin, and debating. He served four years as a principal in Cumberland County, but left school to become a pharmacist—one of the only other jobs that he felt would be served by his Latin skills.

In 1880 Richardson purchased the only drugstore in Selma. Ten years later he moved to Greensboro, where he and partner John B. Fariss purchased W. C. Porter’s drug store. At Richardson-Fariss Drug Store, he began to utilize his lifelong interest in chemistry, inventing a variety of over-the-counter medications. In order to promote his medicines, Richardson sold the drugstore and established a wholesale business, the L. Richardson Drug Company. In 1905, after disagreements with stockholders over how the operation should be run, Richardson sold the business, retaining rights to his twenty-one medicines, and opened the Vick Family Remedies Company.

Vicks Salve, developed by Richardson in 1894, offered promise, but was difficult to market with such a nondescript name. Richardson’s eldest son, H. Smith Richardson, joined the family business as sales manager in 1907 and recognized the need for a more descriptive name. With the honed salesmanship of Smith Richardson and under the catchy name Vick’s VapoRub, the cold remedy had garnered a national following within five years. The flu pandemic of 1918 to 1919 made Vick’s VapoRub an indispensible part of medicine chests. With operations focused on VapoRub, Richardson incorporated his business in early 1919.

Ironically, Lunsford Richardson did not live to see his creation become a worldwide phenomenon, succumbing to the flu in August of that year. Richardson married Mary Lynn Smith, sister of his college classmate <a href="http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?sp=search&k=Markers&sv=L-108" style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; cursor: pointer; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px; border-radius: 5px;">Henry Louis Smith</a>. They had five children. Active in the Presbyterian Church and his community, Richardson was a champion of race relations. He was a trustee at Palmer Memorial Institute. He is buried in Greensboro’s Green Hill Cemetery. During World War II, a Liberty Ship was named Lunsford Richardson in his honor.

References:

H. Smith Richardson, Early History of Richardson-Merrell (1975)

W. C. Burton, H. Smith Richardson (1979)

Mary Beaty, History of Davidson College (1988)

William S. Powell, ed., Dictionary of NC Biography, V, 215-216—sketch by Norris Preyer

Billy Arthur, “Breathing Easier,” Our State (January 1997)

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