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</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday announced the creation of a new political advocacy group, </div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">his latest step to remain involved in the conservative movement as he plots out his political future.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pence launched Advancing American Freedom, while opposing the Biden administration’s agenda. Advancing American Freedom plans to build on the success of the last four years by promoting traditional Conservative values and promoting the successful policies of the Trump Administration,” Pence said in a statement. “Conservatives will not stand idly by as the radical Left and the new administration attempt to threaten America’s standing as the greatest Nation in the world with their destructive policies.”</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The nonprofit advocacy group will be advised by several former Trump administration officials and prominent leaders in the conservative movement. Kellyanne Conway, Larry Kudlow, Russ Vought, Seema Verma, Andrew Wheeler, Robert Lighthizer and David Bernhardt are among the former Trump officials on its advisory board.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The group will advocate for policies focused on three areas: The economy, foreign policy and “American liberties” like school choice and anti-abortion policies.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">The launch of the advocacy group is Pence’s latest bid to remain a key player in conservative politics. Since leaving office, he has joined the Heritage Foundation as a distinguished visiting fellow where he has a regular column and podcast, and he also joined former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) Young America’s Foundation as a scholar.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pence is expected to speak later this month in South Carolina in his first speech since leaving office.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Washington Examiner reported that the new advocacy group comes with the support of former President Trump, who has patched things up with Pence after attacking his former vice president for refusing to illegally subvert the certification of the Electoral College results on Jan. 6. Pence was the target of threats when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol that day, and he was taken away to a secure location when rioters entered the complex.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The former vice president is known to be interested in running for president in 2024, but the end of his tenure has raised questions about whether he would be embraced by Trump supporters. Other former Trump administration officials, such as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, are also likely to launch presidential bids. </div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div>CASE V: UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GROUPS </div><div>
</div><div>Although the Federalist Society and conservative domination of the legal system represent conservative philanthropy’s most consequential achievements, other kinds of higher education philanthropy have contributed to right-wing political success. Conservative activists and philanthropists have underwritten right-wing undergraduate student activism that advocates free market ideology on college campuses. One of the earliest organized efforts was Young Americans for Freedom, founded by a group of some 90 young activists at conservative publisher William F. Buckley Jr.’s Connecticut estate in September 1960.55 (Young Americans for Freedom is not to be confused with Young America’s Foundation, discussed below. For clarity, I refer to both organizations by their full  names...</div><div>
</div><div>notes: 54Maxine Joselow, “Is George Mason the New Trump U?” E&E News, July 17, 2018, https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060089361; “Tracking Deregulation in the Trump Era,” Brookings Institution, January 16, 2019, https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/tracking-deregulation-in-the-trumpera/. 55 There are three scholarly treatments of Young Americans for Freedom by historians. These are Gregory L. Schneider’s Cadres for Conservatism: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary Right (New York: New York University Press, 1999), John A. Andrew’s The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997), and sociologist Rebecca E. Klatch’s A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). There are also a handful of accounts from conservative pundits involved in Young Americans for Freedom, notably William F. Buckley Jr.’s Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater (New York: Basic Books, 2008) and Wayne J. Thorburn’s (former executive director of Young Americans for Freedom) A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement (Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books, 2010).  ]]</div><div>
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</div><div>It should also be noted that Young America’s Foundation and Leadership Institute alumni have gone on to prominent positions in the American Right in the 2010s, including White House advisor and architect of the Trump administration’s draconian immigration policy Stephen Miller (Young America’s Foundation) and media provocateur James O’Keefe (Leadership Institute). 65 </div><div>
</div><div>This poses another counterfactual: would a similar conservative leadership cadre have developed absent support from organizations like Young America’s Foundation and the Leadership Institute? Ultimately, it seems unlikely that conservative organizations operating independently on college campuses without any kind of overarching political and financial coordination would have developed such a wide-ranging and politically disciplined leadership class. For instance, the broad support that conservative philanthropy has provided to conservative firebrand Dinesh D’Souza, now a bestselling author, suggests that a vibrant conservative ecosystem, both on and off campus, is crucial for cultivating conservative leaders. The Olin Foundation and the Institute for Educational Affairs first supported D’Souza through his right-wing campus newspaper, Dartmouth Review, in the early 1980s. After graduating from Dartmouth, D’Souza secured a John M. Olin Fellowship at the American Enterprise Institute, where he helped popularize the phrase “political correctness” to decry early 1990s campus culture. It seems fair to say that D’Souza owes much of his success to Olin, which can likely be said for many lesser-known conservative thinkers and writers who have reliably promoted free enterprise and procapitalist views.66</div><div>
</div><div>CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS</div><div>
</div><div>A survey of the literature on conservative philanthropy in higher education yields the following key themes: The importance of dense networks to achieve immediate and long-term goals. Michael Joyce, a senior official at the Olin Foundation and later the head of the Bradley Foundation, called this the “wine collection” effect; I refer to it as the career pipeline. This pipeline is a way for foundations to invest in conservative figures when they are students or scholars, who mature and eventually contribute to rightwing politics off campus.67 </div><div>
</div><div>This was the Olin Foundation’s stated goal when it supported writers and activists like Dinesh D’Souza. But it was also a goal of institution-building on college campuses. Multiple foundations funded overlapping efforts at colleges and universities across the United States to establish centers for right-wing thought, and those efforts operated cumulatively over time. The creation of a center of conservative economic thought at the University of Chicago allowed for future successes; even failed attempts like Manne’s entrepreneurship at Rochester and Emory reaped results under different circumstances at George Mason. </div><div>
</div><div>The establishment of conservative student groups, from the Federalist Society to undergraduate conservative newspapers, provided a pipeline of talent to these institutions and, in the case of the Federalist Society, eventually provided financial support. Identifying faculty organizational entrepreneurs and sympathetic administrators. From an operational standpoint, this was a critical component of the eventual establishment of conservative centers on campus. When any of the three ingredients (dense networks of donors, dedicated organizational entrepreneurs among faculty, and a sympathetic administration) were lacking—as at the University of Rochester in the 1960s and Emory University in the 1980s—the institution-building efforts failed. </div><div>
</div><div>When those three ingredients were present, as they were at Harvard in the late 1980s and George Mason University since the 1970s, the transformations could be profound. The Koch network at George Mason would never have been as successful as it has been without the collaboration of faculty and administrators. A corollary to this is the importance of overcoming institutional resistance. There has been tremendous resistance in the academy to right-wing philanthropy. Three of the right-wing efforts discussed in this review—at the University of Chicago in the 1940s, the University of Rochester in the 1960s, and Emory University in the 1980s—were unsuccessful because of faculty or administration resistance; the successes were possible when support from faculty and, above all, administration was forthcoming.  </div><div>
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">yaf</div><div></div>PRA<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 15px;">From Red Menace to the Pink, Green, and Lavender Subversives</h3><a name="P1184_290251">Campus Counter-subversion</a>At the 1989 Conservative Political Action Conference counter- subversion star J. Michael Waller spoke at a student workshop on conducting "Opposition Research." At the workshop a pamphlet published by the Young Americans for Freedom was distributed. Titled "List of Un-American Organizations on Our College Campuses" the 15-page booklet is dedicated to "Uncle Joe (1908-1957)" and fulfills its McCarthyist heritage by its blacklist-style smears of CISPES, United Campuses Against Nuclear War, Communist Party USA, Oxfam America, Trans Africa, Washington Office on Africa, United States Student Association, and a "Sandinista Support Network" including Witness for Peace, Nicaragua Network and TecNica.According to the pamphlet:<blockquote style="">= "With Congress and the FBI no longer able to investigate anti-American activities on the college campuses, it has increasingly become the responsibility of the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) to keep watch over those groups who desire to undermine America. === "While YAF was able to secretly monitor Leftist groups for the last several years, a recent string of newspaper articles and a television documentary have appeared, blowing YAF's cover.</blockquote>The pamphlet also archly warns that it hopes to provide:<blockquote style="">= "a basic idea of the terrible threat these Hard- Left groups pose to our way of life. Many of these groups take their orders directly from a hostile foreign power and all of them are entrenched on at least one of the college campuses in your community.</blockquote><a name="P1193_291767" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Corporate Security ???</a>[Mr. Frank is the author of What's the Matter with Kansas.] Doing some research in the Library of Congress recently, an associate of mine came across a curious artifact of the Young Americans for Freedom, the high-spirited conservative group of the Vietnam era. It is a songbook prepared for YAF's 1971 convention, and in its mimeographed pages you will find a lyric poking fun at "Adlai [Stevenson] the bald-headed Com-Symp," and another moaning that, in the State Department, "everyone's a Commie slave." All good clean fun, surely. Turn a few pages, though, and you will find that the righteous ones also lifted their young voices to warble "Cara al Sol," the humor-free anthem of Spanish fascism.Many YAFers later rose to positions of great political influence. From direct mailers to congressmen to campaign managers, the group put its stamp on our era in no small way.This year's most prominent YAF graduate is Charlie Black, who was an officer of the group in the period when it sang fascist hymns and who now serves as a senior adviser to Republican John McCain. Last week, Mr. Black triggered a media storm by musing publicly on how a terrorist attack would improve Mr. McCain's chances to win the presidential election in November. Mr. Black is a difficult man to pin down. The articles he wrote for the YAF's magazine back in 1972 are anodyne stuff, unremarkable apart from his youthful passion to "take on liberalism everywhere it rules...."But he's also kept some questionable company over the years. In 1975 he founded, with the help of fellow YAFer Terry Dolan, the National Conservative Political Action Committee, which would contrive so brilliantly to poison the political atmosphere over the next decade. NCPAC's method was to raise money through terrifying direct-mail solicitations – "the shriller you are, the better it is to raise money," Mr. Dolan said – and then to spend it on terrifying TV commercials assailing this or that liberal politician. In 1980 the group helped defeat four Democratic senators, making it an overnight sensation and an omen of the money-driven, all-negative political future.<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 26.88px; padding: 0em 2.5em; margin-bottom: 0px !important;">NCPAC's calling card was slime. It constantly attacked members of Congress for votes they hadn't cast and positions they hadn't taken – "there have been a few mistakes made in terms of research," was all Mr. Black would admit – and the group's main accomplishment was dodging the campaign-finance laws of the day....<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 26.88px; padding: 0em 2.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0px !important;">
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 26.88px; padding: 0em 2.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0px !important;">https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/51926<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 26.88px; padding: 0em 2.5em; margin-bottom: 0px !important;">Charlie Black's Cronies July 2, 2008; Page A11 Doing some research in the Library of Congress recently, an associate of mine came across a curious artifact of the Young Americans for Freedom, the high-spirited conservative group of the Vietnam era. It is a songbook prepared for YAF's 1971 convention, and in its mimeographed pages you will find a lyric poking fun at "Adlai [Stevenson] the bald-headed Com-Symp," and another moaning that, in the State Department, "everyone's a Commie slave." All good clean fun, surely. Turn a few pages, though, and you will find that the righteous ones also lifted their young voices to warble "Cara al Sol," the humor-free anthem of Spanish fascism. AP  John McCain and advisers. Charlie Black is at right.  Many YAFers later rose to positions of great political influence. From direct mailers to congressmen to campaign managers, the group put its stamp on our era in no small way. This year's most prominent YAF graduate is Charlie Black, who was an officer of the group in the period when it sang fascist hymns and who now serves as a senior adviser to Republican John McCain. Last week, Mr. Black triggered a media storm by musing publicly on how a terrorist attack would improve Mr. McCain's chances to win the presidential election in November. Mr. Black is a difficult man to pin down. The articles he wrote for the YAF's magazine back in 1972 are anodyne stuff, unremarkable apart from his youthful passion to "take on liberalism everywhere it rules...." But he's also kept some questionable company over the years. In 1975 he founded, with the help of fellow YAFer Terry Dolan, the National Conservative Political Action Committee, which would contrive so brilliantly to poison the political atmosphere over the next decade. NCPAC's method was to raise money through terrifying direct-mail solicitations – "the shriller you are, the better it is to raise money," Mr. Dolan said – and then to spend it on terrifying TV commercials assailing this or that liberal politician. In 1980 the group helped defeat four Democratic senators, making it an overnight sensation and an omen of the money-driven, all-negative political future. NCPAC's calling card was slime. It constantly attacked members of Congress for votes they hadn't cast and positions they hadn't taken – "there have been a few mistakes made in terms of research," was all Mr. Black would admit – and the group's main accomplishment was dodging the campaign-finance laws of the day. Mr. Dolan was NCPAC's main personality, a boasting bully fond of shocking statements. He once bragged to a reporter that "We could say whatever we want about an opponent of a Senator Smith and the senator wouldn't have to say anything. A group like ours could lie through its teeth and the candidate it helps stays clean." Then there was Roger Stone, who became Mr. Black's colleague in his 1980s lobbying firm Black, Manafort & Stone. Another YAFer, Mr. Stone made his reputation for scummy politics in the 1972 Nixon campaign, and has since become such a well-known impresario of calumny that Matt Labash, writing last year in the Weekly Standard, described him as "a U.S. Army of treachery: He screws more people before 9 a.m. than most people do in a whole day." But what are dirty tricks without some sort of payoff? Conservatives often promise to wage war on the welfare state; what they don't brag about is the way they redirect the proceeds of the welfare state into the pockets of their own kind – the favored lobby firms, the well-connected contractors. Here, too, Mr. Black has a story he might relate. During the Reagan years, the Department of Housing and Urban Development allegedly began steering contracts to clients of political favorites; one gang thus favored was Mr. Black's firm, and in particular, Mr. Black's partner, Paul Manafort. The firm took in over $300,000 lobbying HUD for funds, some of it to rehab a New Jersey housing development that, according to the Boston Globe, "New Jersey officials said they did not want and was a waste of taxpayers money." Allegations also flew about Mr. Black's own role in the HUD scandal, but no wrongdoing was ever proven in court. Mr. Manafort, for his part, became a principal in a lobbying firm headed until recently by Rick Davis, John McCain's campaign manager. It's an interesting bunch Mr. Black has run with, and taken all together they help us understand the larger picture. What unites the conservatives of the 1970s with their pocket-lining counterparts today? A persistent derision for the notion that government might someday be conducted on the level. As that old YAF songbook put it, "Keep the faith with cynicism / Cut the opposition down!"=<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">YAF Congratulates Close Allies on Victory, Key Positions in New AdministrationYoung America’s Foundation congratulates its close allies in the Trump campaign on their victory over Hillary Clinton. The Foundation also extends congratulations to its allies who have been appointed as members of the president-elect’s administration.Critical members of the campaign have long and rich histories with Young America’s Foundation, pouring efforts into our conservative youth movement for decades prior to this cycle. Key Foundation allies involved with the campaign include <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Kellyanne Conway, who has served as the Foundation’s pollster for many years, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Steve Bannon, who has collaborated with the Foundation to create a number of powerful films, Vice President-elect <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Mike Pence, a frequent speaker at Foundation conferences and events, Reagan Ranch Board of Governors member <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Rebekah Mercer, and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">David Bossie, an alumnus of Foundation programs.Young America’s Foundation thanks each of these indispensable conservative leaders, along with President-Elect Trump, for their important public service.Young America’s Foundation also congratulates its allies among the distinguished list of appointments to the Trump administration including Senator <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeff Sessions, a YAF alumnus, Lieutenant General <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Michael Flynn,  Secretary <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Elaine Chao, YAF alumna and speaker <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">KT McFarland, and Congressman <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 800; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Price on their new roles.All are strong conservative leaders who have taken the time to address Young America’s Foundation’s audiences over the years. 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Boos: 
<h2> "Americans Spying on Americans"</h2>

"Michael Boos, Program Director of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Young_America%27s_Foundation" title="Young America's Foundation">Young America's Foundation</a>, says the group promotes <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)">conservative</a> ideas on college campuses .. and keeps track of what the left-wing opposition is up to," Fredric L. Rice wrote for SkepticFiles.org circa 1988.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_Boos#cite_note-1">[2]</a>

"Boos keeps files, makes lists, takes photographs ... all to keep an

eye on students and professors he says 'need watching.' Boos says that

two top-level <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reagan_Adminstration" title="Reagan Adminstration" class="mw-redirect">Reagan Adminstration</a> officials -- <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ken_Cribb" title="Ken Cribb" class="mw-redirect">Ken Cribb</a>, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Frank_Donatelli" title="Frank Donatelli" class="mw-redirect">Frank Donatelli</a>,

the President's chief Political Advisor -- support his work. Both serve

on Young America's Board of Directors. Young America's financial

records reveal the oganization received money from the federal

government -- over $100,000 from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_States_Information_Agency" title="United States Information Agency" class="mw-redirect">United States Information Agency</a>," Rice wrote.

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wreck crew: bto back belly to b, burn their bodies with napalm jelly yaf

COINTELPRO:

The problems extends to campus activism. Accuracy in Academia's "Campus Report" attacked Greenpeace in an April 1990 article headlined "Environmentalism Becomes Radical," and the "1989 Young Americans for Freedom List of Un-American Organizations on Our College Campuses" includes one group opposed to nuclear war, and the respected hunger group Oxfam America. The YAF authors, who warn of "the terrible threat these Hard-Left groups pose to our way of life," boast in their introduction that they have been "able to secretly monitor Leftist groups for the last several years."

http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/greenspy.html

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The Top Conservative College list includes <a title="Christendom College" href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#Christendom">Christendom College</a>, <a title="College of the Ozarks" href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#Ozarks">College of the Ozarks</a>, <a href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#Colorado_Christian_University" title="Colorado Christian University,">Colorado Christian University,</a> <a title="Franciscan University" href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#Franciscan">Franciscan University</a>, <a title="Grove City College" href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#Grove%20City">Grove City College</a>, <a title="Harding University" href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#Harding">Harding University</a>, <a title="Hillsdale College" href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#Hillsdale">Hillsdale College</a>, <a title="The King's College" href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#The%20King%27s%20College">The King's College</a>, <a title="Liberty University" href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#Liberty">Liberty University</a>, <a title="Patrick Henry College" href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#Patrick%20Henry">Patrick Henry College</a>, <a title="Regent University" href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#Regent">Regent University</a>, <a title="Saint Vincent College" href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#Saint%20Vincent">Saint Vincent College</a>, <a title="Thomas Aquinas College" href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#Thomas%20Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas College</a>, <a title="Thomas More College" href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#Thomas%20More">Thomas More College</a>, and <a title="Wisconsin Lutheran College" href="http://www.yaf.org/topconservativecolleges.aspx#Wisconsin">Wisconsin Lutheran College</a>.

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

Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) is affiliated with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Young_America%27s_Foundation" title="Young America's Foundation">Young America's Foundation</a>.

<h2>Contents</h2></div>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=YAF#History">1 History</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=YAF#Today">2 Today</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=YAF#Critical_Books">3 Critical Books</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=YAF#Contact_details">4 Contact details</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=YAF#Resources_and_articles">5 Resources and articles</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=YAF#Related_Sourcewatch_articles">5.1 Related Sourcewatch articles</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=YAF#References" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">5.2 References</a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2>History</h2>

" About 90 young people at the Sharon, Connecticut estate of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_F.Buckley,Jr." title="William F. Buckley, Jr.">William F. Buckley, Jr.</a> gathered to lay the groundwork for a new national conservative youth organization. It is here that Americans for Freedom is born and our statement of principles, the Sharon Statement, is drafted. New Guard magazine makes its debut as the official magazine of YAF.

"YAF spearheads the campaign of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Goldwater</a> for president. Goldwater's run for the White House catalyzed YAF more than any other event in its history. A highlight of YAF's movement to make Goldwater the Republican nominee is an astonishing rally in New York's Madison Square Garden where 18,500 conservatives gather to show their support for Senator Goldwater. Lee Edwards, former New Guard editor, said "Barry Goldwater made YAF, but YAF also made Barry Goldwater."

"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> joins the YAF National Advisory Board in 1962 and continues today, 40 years later, as Honorary Chairman." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=YAF#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

On Sept. 5, 2004, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brian_Lamb&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brian Lamb (page does not exist)">Brian Lamb</a> interviewed <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Viguerie" title="Richard Viguerie">Richard Viguerie</a>, direct mail guru of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Religious_Right" title="Religious Right">religious right</a>, on the occasion of the publication of Viguerie's book, America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power (Bonus Books, Chicago, IL). According to Viguerie, the book's co-author, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Franke" title="David Franke">David Franke</a>, did most of the research and writing, while Viguerie lent his name and public promotion duties.

Viguerie explained that he met Franke in the late 1950s in Washington, DC, where Franke was writing for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Events" title="Human Events">Human Events</a> magazine. At about the same time Franke had, together with his roommate <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Douglas_Caddy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Douglas Caddy (page does not exist)">Douglas Caddy</a>, founded the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Students_for_Goldwater" title="Students for Goldwater">Students for Goldwater</a> organization. Shortly thereafter Franke returned to his native Houston, and worked with Viguerie, an intense anti-communist, who was chairman of the Harris County Young Republicans. By 1961 Franke merged his Students for Goldwater organization with the Young Americans for Freedom organization that had been founded, according to Viguerie, in the fall of 1960 at the Sharon, Connecticut estate of Bill Buckley. Within a year or two, through the influence of Franke, Viguerie was executive secretary of YAF.

<h2>Today</h2>

The Michigan State University chapter of YAF has been listed by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Southern_Poverty_Law_Center" title="Southern Poverty Law Center">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> as a hate group <a href="http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=40212" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=40212" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>

<h2>Critical Books</h2>

<ul>

<li>John A. Andrew, The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics (London: Rutgers University Press, 1997)</li>

</ul>

<h2>Contact details</h2>

YAF's address is a virtual office<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=YAF#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a> at:

2300 M Street, NW

Suite 800

Washington, D.C. 20037

Phone: (202) 470-0196

Email: info AT yaf.com

Web: <a href="http://www.yaf.com" class="external free" title="http://www.yaf.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.yaf.com</a>

<h2>Resources and articles</h2>

<h3>Related Sourcewatch articles</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Young_America%27s_Foundation" title="Young America's Foundation">Young America's Foundation</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Journalism_Center" title="National Journalism Center">National Journalism Center</a></li>

</ul>

<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=YAF#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.yaf.com/history/index.php" class="external text" title="http://www.yaf.com/history/index.php" rel="nofollow">History</a>, YAF, accessed February 26, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=YAF#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> Susan Piperato (2009-12-10). <a href="http://www.nyinc.com/news/aion-partners-inks-two-major-leases-2300-m-street-nw-washington-dc" class="external text" title="http://www.nyinc.com/news/aion-partners-inks-two-major-leases-2300-m-street-nw-washington-dc" rel="nofollow">AION Partners Inks Two Major Leases at 2300 M Street, NW in Washington, DC</a>. NY inc. Retrieved on 2010-05-05. “HQ Global Workplaces will continue to occupy 20,000 square feet office space on the entire eighth floor and a portion of the ninth floor.”</li>

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<ul>

<li>YAF's "Conservative Speakers Program" helps students bring controversial right-wing speakers to college campuses. Some of these speakers include: Ann Coulter, Alabama's Judge Roy Moore, Ward Connerly, Phyllis Schlafly, Ralph Reed, Christina Hoff Sommers, Dinesh D'Souza, David Horowitz, Oliver North, Edwin Meese III, Dan Quayle, Robert Novak, Patrick Buchanan, Jack Kemp, Newt Gingrich, Rep. Steve Largent, Walter Williams, Bay Buchanan, Bob Barr, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Michael Medved, Ben Stein and Kenneth Starr.</li>

<li>

</li><li>YAF sponsors the National Journalism Center (NJC). Established in 1977, the NJC sponsors trainings for aspiring student journalists and helps coordinate internships and permanent jobs for its alumni at many mainstream news outlets.</li>

<li>

</li><li>YAF holds a national student conference each year, bringing in speakers, educational materials, and providing seminars to help educate America's conservative youth. In 2003 their national conference guest speaker was Vice President Dick Cheney.</li></ul>

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Koch Charitable Foundation</a></td><td>$20,000</td><td> </td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr class="group_237496"><td class="indent">General operating support</td><td>$10,000</td><td>12/31/2007</td></tr><tr class="group_237496"><td class="indent">Educational Programs</td><td>$10,000</td><td>1/1/1998</td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr><td><a onclick="tog(237630); return false;" href="#"><img class="toggler" id="i_237630" src="/static/img/plus.png" alt="" /></a> <a href="/transparency/organization/Charlotte_and_Walter_Kohler_Charitable_Trust">Charlotte and Walter Kohler Charitable Trust</a></td><td>$25,000</td><td> </td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr class="group_237630"><td class="indent">General operating support</td><td>$25,000</td><td>1/1/2002</td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr><td><a onclick="tog(237500); return false;" href="#"><img class="toggler" id="i_237500" src="/static/img/plus.png" alt="" /></a> <a href="/transparency/organization/Claude_R_Lambe_Charitable_Foundation">Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation</a></td><td>$37,500</td><td> </td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr class="group_237500"><td class="indent">General operating support</td><td>$12,500</td><td>12/31/2007</td></tr><tr class="group_237500"><td class="indent">Educational Programs</td><td>$25,000</td><td>1/1/1996</td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr><td><a onclick="tog(237506); return false;" href="#"><img class="toggler" id="i_237506" src="/static/img/plus.png" alt="" /></a> <a href="/transparency/organization/David_H_Koch_Charitable_Foundation">David H. Koch Charitable Foundation</a></td><td>$50,000</td><td> </td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr class="group_237506"><td class="indent">Concept Design Program Support</td><td>$50,000</td><td>1/1/1999</td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr><td><a onclick="tog(237510); return false;" href="#"><img class="toggler" id="i_237510" src="/static/img/plus.png" alt="" /></a> <a href="/transparency/organization/Earhart_Foundation">Earhart Foundation</a></td><td>$20,000</td><td> </td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr class="group_237510"><td class="indent">FM Kirby Freedom Center

For general support for the National Journalism Center during calendar year 2002</td><td>$20,000</td><td>1/1/2002</td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr><td><a onclick="tog(237513); return false;" href="#"><img class="toggler" id="i_237513" src="/static/img/plus.png" alt="" /></a> <a href="/transparency/organization/F_M_Kirby_Foundation">F.M. Kirby Foundation</a></td><td>$1,835,000</td><td> </td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr class="group_237513"><td class="indent"> </td><td>$90,000</td><td>1/1/2007</td></tr><tr class="group_237513"><td class="indent"> </td><td>$90,000</td><td>1/1/2006</td></tr><tr class="group_237513"><td class="indent">General support</td><td>$90,000</td><td>1/1/2005</td></tr><tr class="group_237513"><td class="indent">Toward the Reagan Ranch Outreach Center-$50,000</td><td>$135,000</td><td>1/1/2004</td></tr><tr class="group_237513"><td class="indent">General support</td><td>$85,000</td><td>1/1/2003</td></tr><tr class="group_237513"><td class="indent">General support</td><td>$75,000</td><td>1/1/2002</td></tr><tr class="group_237513"><td class="indent">General support</td><td>$75,000</td><td>1/1/2001</td></tr><tr class="group_237513"><td class="indent">General support</td><td>$65,000</td><td>1/1/2000</td></tr><tr class="group_237513"><td class="indent">General support</td><td>$65,000</td><td>1/1/1999</td></tr><tr class="group_237513"><td class="indent">Toward the retirement of Young America's Foundation debt in its acquisition of Rancho del Cielo-$1,000,000</td><td>$1,065,000</td><td>1/1/1998</td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr><td><a onclick="tog(237648); return false;" href="#"><img class="toggler" id="i_237648" src="/static/img/plus.png" alt="" /></a> <a href="/transparency/organization/JM_Foundation">JM Foundation</a></td><td>$65,000</td><td> </td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr class="group_237648"><td class="indent">Toward educational activities for students at Rancho del Cielo and the Reagan Ranch Center</td><td>$25,000</td><td>1/1/2004</td></tr><tr class="group_237648"><td class="indent">No purpose given.</td><td>$25,000</td><td>1/1/2001</td></tr><tr class="group_237648"><td class="indent">To support a national lecture series</td><td>$15,000</td><td>1/1/1996</td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr><td><a onclick="tog(237549); return false;" href="#"><img class="toggler" id="i_237549" src="/static/img/plus.png" alt="" /></a> <a href="/transparency/organization/John_M_Olin_Foundation">John M. Olin Foundation</a></td><td>$70,000</td><td> </td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr class="group_237549"><td class="indent">A program of lectures to promote President Reagan's legacy</td><td>$25,000</td><td>1/1/1999</td></tr><tr class="group_237549"><td class="indent">The promotion of an annual study of college courses</td><td>$20,000</td><td>1/1/1998</td></tr><tr class="group_237549"><td class="indent">To support a lecture tour by Forrest McDonald and Russell Kirk on the bicentennial of the Constitution</td><td>$25,000</td><td>1/1/1986</td></tr></tbody><tbody><tr><td><a onclick="tog(237653); return false;" href="#"><img class="toggler" id="i_237653" src="/static/img/plus.png" alt="" /></a> <a href="/transparency/organization/Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a></td><td>$159,700</td></tr></tbody></table>

funders in common with

<table><tbody><tr><th>Connection</th><th>People</th><th>Grantees</th><th>Funders</th><th>Total</th></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/The_Heritage_Foundation">Heritage Foundation, The</a></td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=funders&cid=237585">14</a></td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Intercollegiate_Studies_Institute">Intercollegiate Studies Institute</a></td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=people&cid=237547">1</a></td><td>0</td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=funders&cid=237547">12</a></td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Capital_Research_Center">Capital Research Center</a></td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=funders&cid=237484">12</a></td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Cato_Institute">Cato Institute</a></td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=funders&cid=237487">12</a></td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/FreedomWorks">FreedomWorks</a></td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=funders&cid=237526">12</a></td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/The_Fund_for_American_Studies">Fund for American Studies, The</a></td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=people&cid=237584">1</a></td><td>0</td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=funders&cid=237584">11</a></td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Acton_Institute_for_the_Study_of_Religion_and_Liberty">Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty</a></td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=funders&cid=237454">11</a></td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a></td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=funders&cid=237503">11</a></td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Federalist_Society_for_Law_and_Public_Policy_Studies">Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies</a></td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=funders&cid=237515">11</a></td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/George_Mason_University">George Mason University</a></td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=funders&cid=237976">11</a></td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Hudson_Institute">Hudson Institute</a></td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=funders&cid=237533">11</a></td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Institute_for_Humane_Studies_at_George_Mason_University">Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University</a></td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=funders&cid=237540">11</a></td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Institute_for_Justice">Institute for Justice</a></td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=funders&cid=237541">11</a></td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Leadership_Institute">Leadership Institute</a></td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Young_America_s_Foundation/connections?viewby=funders&cid=237551">11</a></td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/transparency/organization/Media_Research_Center">Media Research Center</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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Kyle Bristow — the pugnacious chair of the <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=869">Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom</a> (MSU-YAF), a student organization listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — <a href="http://www.spartanspectator.com">announced</a> Sunday that he’s resigning “so that the next generation of YAFers can replace me.”

<img src="/dce6e3c1-06e9-5b7d-a1c0-31055eab6c8e.jpg"/>Bristow (right) also confirmed that an MSU-YAF-sponsored lecture by <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=215#34">Jared Taylor</a>, the editor of the academic racist journal American Renaissance, would not occur on the MSU campus in March as originally planned. “Though MSU-YAF is not officially hosting Jared Taylor as a speaker this semester, I did see to it that he will be able to speak at a location near MSU and be hosted by another organization (the show will go on!),” Bristow wrote. (As it happens, the three-day <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/23/AR2008022301918.html">biannual conference of American Renaissance</a>, held in Herndon, Va., and featuring former Klan leaders and other assorted white supremacists, wrapped up the same day he spoke.)

MSU-YAF was added to the SPLC list in early 2007, after MSU-YAF attempted to organize a “Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day” contest, held a “Koran Desecration” competition, joked about distributing smallpox-infested blankets to Native American students, and hosted a series of lectures by hate group leaders such as Nick Griffin that drew skinheads and other white supremacists to the MSU campus. Griffin is the Holocaust-denying leader of the extreme-right British National Party. <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/02/26/campus-hatemonger-lays-down-%e2%80%98torch-of-freedom%e2%80%99/#more-238" class="more-link">( continue to full post… )</a>

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...<div class="field-label" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bold;" mercury="Mercury" ssm="SSm" a="A" b="B" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: " knockout="Knockout" a="A" b="B" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" line-height="line-height" margin="margin" px="px" em="em">Kyle Bristow</h2></div><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;" mercury="Mercury" ssm="SSm" a="A" b="B" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><div class="field-item even " style="box-sizing: inherit;">The pugnacious college student also spearheaded anti-immigrant and anti-gay campaigns organized by YAF, prompting the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to take the unusual step of listing the campus club as a hate group. Bristow soon branched out to violent, hate-driven fiction. While attending law school in 2010, he publishedWhite Apocalypse, a novel seething with lethal white supremacist revenge fantasies against Jewish professors, Latino and American Indian activists and staffers of a group clearly modeled on the SPLC. Since then, Bristow has continued to air his extremist views in white nationalist, anti-gay media. Now a lawyer in suburban Detroit, he’s recently championed the cause of female victims, said by Bristow to be mostly white blondes, whose nude photos have been posted online as “revenge pornography” by ex-lovers.In His Own Words: “The early and relatively sophisticated Egyptians understood that their civilization would be threatened if they bred with the Negroes to their south, so pharaohs went so far as ‘to prevent the mongrelization of the Egyptian race’ by making it a death penalty-eligible offense to bring blacks into Egypt … [although] blacks still came to Egypt as soldiers, slaves, and captives from other nations. By 1,500 B.C., half of the population of southern Egypt was of mixed blood, and by 688 B.C., societal progress had ended in Egypt.” —The Conscience of a Right-Winger, collection of essays, 2012“[One character’s ancestors] for 40,000 years were all white and he hated who he was so very much that he put an end to that tradition by becoming romantically involved with a nonwhite individual — as many white liberals are predisposed to doing these days. —White Apocalypse, a novel, 2010“Liberalism promotes sexual perversion —especially homosexuality and miscegenation — which debases the White race. Neither homosexuals nor interracial couples, after all, produce White children.” —“Does white guilt run in the family?” article in The Citizens Informer of the Council of Conservative Citizens hate group, Feb. 10, 2011“Homosexuality kills people almost to a degree worse than cigarettes. … [T]hese [pro-gay rights] groups are complicit with murder.” —Quoted in The Spartan Edge, an alternative newspaper at Michigan State University, Sept. 24, 2006Background Kyle Bristow grew up in Clinton Township, Mich., near Detroit. He was president of the Young Republicans’ Club at Chippewa Valley High School and has voiced anger about a perceived leftist bias in the local schools. In high school, he read the 2003 book,Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism by far-right attack dog Ann Coulter, which he says inspired a turning point in his political views, evidently to the extreme right.During his freshman year at Michigan State University, he was elected president of the campus conservative group, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF).  Bristow also won an unopposed seat on the student government council. He quickly posted his 13-point agenda as a student representative, a sophomoric document saturated in hate that included capturing undocumented immigrants in the area, cutting school funding for non-heterosexual groups, and giving more representation to men and whites on the student council than others. The council recalled Bristow in a landslide vote after he refused to recant his agenda or resign.But the young firebrand succeeded in sparking plenty of national publicity during his two years as president of YAF. Ugly public spectacles were his specialty.  He planned a ”Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day,” which drew national attention but was later cancelled. He led a “straight power” rally in front of the Lansing City Hall to protest a proposed 2006 law to protect gays, lesbians and bisexuals against bias based on sexual orientation. Protesters held up signs saying “End Faggotry” and “Go Back in the Closet.” In a news release to publicize the event, Bristow wrote: “YAF members find homosexuality and other forms of sexual deviancy to be disgusting. The Boy Scouts, military, and the American public need to be protected from these degenerates.” Under Bristow’s leadership, the campus YAF group also held a “Koran desecration contest.” Based on these and other bigoted acts and statements, the SPLC began listing Michigan State’s YAF club as a hate group in 2007.One of Bristow’s most inflammatory tactics was inviting virulently racist and anti-Semitic leaders to speak on the MSU campus — acts that triggered disciplinary threats from the national YAF group. Among those speakers was British National Party chairman Nick Griffin, a Holocaust-denier and white supremacist. Another invitee was Jared Taylor, founder of the white nationalist New Century Foundation and editor of itsAmerican Renaissance, a journal that publishes racist articles and hosts periodic national conferences attended by a variety of hardline nationalists that have included neo-Nazis, former Klan leaders and other open white supremacists.  Inviting Taylor was a step too far for the national YAF group. In a February 2008 post on the website ofAmerican Renaissance, Bristow disclosed that national YAF had threatened to revoke the campus’ charter if the local group hosted Taylor. In a bitter post, he complained that “YAF does not officially recognize multi-culturalism as a threat to the United States” and railed against “cowards at the university and in ‘conservative’ organizations.” Nevertheless, under heavy pressure from YAF, Bristow resigned from the MSU chapter and Taylor’s lecture was cancelled.But Bristow clearly was determined to gain more attention for his extremist political views even as he seemed to be preparing for a mainstream career as a lawyer. After graduating from MSU, he started law school at the University of Toledo in 2010. He didn’t just write exams and school papers, though, using his spare time to contribute racist articles articles to The Citizens Informer, the quarterly newspaper of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens.In 2010, Bristow moved into new territory, writing a novel that reads like the prolonged, violent revenge fantasy of a racist and anti-Semitic fanatic. White Apocalypse, self-published through the Amazon subsidiary CreateSpace, is still available on Amazon. The book takes as its touchstone the “Solutrean Hypothesis,” a widely discredited theory that whites from Europe appeared in North America 15,000 to 17,000 years ago, making them the true “Native Americans.” In Bristow’s version, these whites were massacred by darker-skinned late arrivals. He dedicates the book to “the real Native Americans.” Its publication was hailed by the white power movement as a bracing inspiration for future recruits to their cause.The hero/narrator of the book wants the Solutrean theory to come to public light. But first he has to squash the evil “Center for Diversity and Multiculturalism,” based in Atlanta. The group, which maintains an active legal staff and “hate group list,” just like the SPLC, is unquestionably modeled on SPLC. But Bristow gets even more personal than that. Two of the fictional group’s staff members are obviously modeled on SPLCIntelligence Report editor and Senior Fellow Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich, director of SPLC’s Intelligence Project. (Beirich’s name is rendered as “Beirman” in the book, and Potok’s stand-in is David Greenberg, who is described as an “oily, curly haired troll.” The Potok character is assassinated in a grisly and meticulously described scene.) When asked about the apparent targeting of Potok and Beirich, Bristow dismissed it entirely, saying in an E-mail to the SPLC beginning “Dear Guttersnipe” that he meant nothing of the kind.While still a law student in 2012, Bristow published another book, The Conscience of a Right-Winger, a collection of essays with a far-right spin on favorite topics such as the scourge of gun control, immigration and white racial pride. Like White Apocalypse, which was lauded across the extreme right, Bristow’s second book boasts enthusiastic endorsements from racist leaders such as Jared Taylor. A new edition on Amazon combines this nonfiction work with the earlier novel.After finishing law school in 2012, Bristow appeared to be dropping under the radar as he took up work at a regular day job with the France Law Group in Toledo, Ohio. But not for long. He began to actively seek female clients whose nude photos were posted on online “revenge porn sites” by vindictive ex-partners. He got two of the sites shut down on behalf of clients, and then was interviewed about his efforts by The Wall Street Journal and television’s Katie Couric. Although many observers were surprised by Bristow’s activity actually helping people, he may have shown his real interest when he characterized revenge porn as a manifestation of liberalism and claimed that the majority of its victims are white, blonde women.A year after joining the Toledo law firm, Bristow left to open his own law practice in Clarkston, Mich., a Detroit suburb. He now bills himself online as an expert in Internet law and also as “able to assist law school graduates who are going through the character and fitness” test required before sitting for the Michigan and Ohio bar exam. (Apparently, he knows something of such problems.)In December 2013, Bristow publicly teamed with Dan Poole, a recent college-graduate and activist with the white supremacist American Freedom Party, to found The Center for the Advancement of Occidental Culture. The new group’s mission is   “to advance and defend Western civilization,” opposing alleged discrimination and harassment of European Americans. Its opening online salvo, on Dec. 31, asked for original articles for its website and financial contributions. Mysteriously, just a month later, the two founders dissolved the new group as a limited liability corporation (Bristow was its chief legal officer, according to a blog post by the Anti-Defamation League) and its website went dead.</div></div>

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=<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_America%27s_Foundation">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_America%27s_Foundation</a>===

wiki? bs? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom</a>

Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) is a 501(c)(3) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit" title="Non-profit" class="mw-redirect">non-profit</a> organization and is now a project of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_America%27s_Foundation" title="Young America's Foundation">Young America's Foundation</a>. YAF is an ideologically <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">conservative</a> youth activism organization that was founded in 1960, as a coalition between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditionalist_conservatism" title="Traditionalist conservatism">traditional conservatives</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarians" title="Libertarians" class="mw-redirect">libertarians</a>. While the 1960s were its most successful years in terms of numbers and influence, YAF continues to be active as a national organization with chapters throughout the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. YAF's official publication is <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yaf.com/newguard/">The New Guard</a>.

According to one long-time activist the conservative movement that exists in America today, and especially its beachhead in the Nation's Capital, would not have developed were it not for Young Americans for Freedom.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Wayne_Thorburn_2010.2C_p.487-0">[1]</a>

The purposes of YAF are to advocate public policies consistent with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Statement" title="Sharon Statement">Sharon Statement</a>, which was adopted by young conservatives at a meeting at the home of Mr. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley" title="William F. Buckley" class="mw-redirect">William F. Buckley</a> in Sharon, Connecticut on September 11, 1960; To promote social welfare and individual freedom; To study any legislation from any governmental bodies or agencies that seek to affect social and economic problems of the individual; To support the preservation and enhancement of individual freedom for all Americans; To provide aid and information to students and such young adults throughout the nation to assist them in achieving and maintaining the ideological realization of the beliefs in the Sharon Statement; and to maintain and operate a chapter based organization with national, regional and local networks throughout the United State of America.

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Factionalism">1 Factionalism</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Influence">2 Influence</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Creating_a_conservative_movement">2.1 Creating a conservative movement</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Conservative_organizations">2.1.1 Conservative organizations</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Notable_alumni">2.1.2 Notable alumni</a>

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<li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Notable_alumni-public_service">2.1.2.1 Notable alumni - public service</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Notable_alumni-conservative_movement">2.1.2.2 Notable alumni - conservative movement</a></li>

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</ul>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Statement_of_principles">3 Statement of principles</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#The_Sharon_Statement">3.1 The Sharon Statement</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Publication">4 Publication</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#The_New_Guard-Yesterday_and_Today">4.1 The New Guard - Yesterday and Today</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Philosophy">5 Philosophy</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#History">6 History</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#National_conservative_activism.2C_1960.E2.80.931965">6.1 National conservative activism, 1960–1965</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Reaction_to_radical_activism.2C_1965.E2.80.931971">6.2 Reaction to radical activism, 1965–1971</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Advocacy_politics.2C_1971.E2.80.931985">6.3 Advocacy politics, 1971–1985</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Campus_activism.2C_1985.E2.80.931990">6.4 Campus activism, 1985–1990</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#The_rebuilding_years_1991.E2.80.931999">6.5 The rebuilding years 1991–1999</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Resurgence_2000.E2.80.932010">6.6 Resurgence 2000–2010</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Present">6.7 Present</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-21"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Unification_with_Young_Americas_Foundation">6.7.1 Unification with Young Americas Foundation</a></li>

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</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Footnotes">7 Footnotes</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#Further_reading">8 Further reading</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#External_links">9 External links</a></li>

</ul>

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<h2>Factionalism</h2>

Historians have emphasized the bitter factionalism inside YAF starting in the 1960s. Heineman says "the YAF itself suffered internal strife. In 1969 the organization split into competing, irreconcilable factions."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-1">[2]</a> Schneider says, "in the mid-1970s YAF suffered from weak leadership based on factions and personalities rather than ability".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-2">[3]</a> Tuccile says, "The second faction of rebels consisted of radical libertarians or anarchists, most of them belonging to Karl Hess IV's Anarcho-libertarian Alliance. This contingent was more interested in splitting off from YAF entirely."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-3">[4]</a> Klatch says "When one young libertarian burned his draft card on the convention floor, the crowd turned into an angry mob and, ultimately, purged all libertarians from YAF. One libertarian faction stormed out of the meeting."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-4">[5]</a>

<h2>Influence</h2>

YAF's indirect influence is felt through the number of conservative political figures who began their careers as members in college.

From its beginning as an outgrowth of the efforts to obtain the Republican vice presidential nomination for a conservative in 1960 up through its determined campaign to ensure that a conservative vice president was renominated in 1992, YAF was a major player in the politics of late 20th century America.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-5">[6]</a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Zinsmeister" title="Karl Zinsmeister">Karl Zinsmeister</a> wrote the following about YAF:

<table class="cquote" style=" margin: auto; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; background-color: transparent; width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: none; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 10px;" valign="top" width="20">“</td><td style=" border: none; padding: 4px 10px;" valign="top">The conservative activists who first organized themselves [through YAF] in the early 1960s were the force behind the rise of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Goldwater</a>, the election of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> as Governor of California, the takeover of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> from the liberal wing that controlled it for decades, the election of Ronald Reagan as president, and the reversion of Congress to Republican control for the first time in 40 years.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-6">[7]</a></td><td style="border: none; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px;" valign="bottom" width="20">”</td></tr></tbody></table>

Although YAF members and chapters were engaged in many projects to influence public policy and elect conservative candidates to office, the leadership of the organization was well aware that their goals and objectives were more long-term. YAF was recruiting, training and preparing young people to assume even more important roles later in life. YAF spawned many of the organizational elements of the 21st century conservative movement and provided the leadership and manpower to build those publications, organizations, and foundations into the significant elements of American society that they are today.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Wayne_Thorburn_2010.2C_p.487-0">[1]</a>

<h3>Creating a conservative movement</h3>

YAF played a critical role in the development of many of the new conservative organizations that were established in the 1960s, 1970s and beyond. Those who were college students and young adults active in YAF went on to form new groups or serve as important personnel in conservative organizations founded by others. To fully understand the influence of YAF on the creation of a lasting movement in America, it is helpful to view those organizations formed by YAF alumni and then those which YAFers have played an important contributing role.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-7">[8]</a>

<h4>Conservative organizations</h4>

Below is a list of conservative organizations YAFers founded or played an important contributing role:

<ul>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Conservative_Union" title="American Conservative Union">American Conservative Union</a> - founded in 1964 - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F.Buckley" title="William F. Buckley" class="mw-redirect">William F. Buckley</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R.Jones" title="David R. Jones">David R. Jones</a>[<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://toolserver.org/%7Edispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py?page=Young_Americans_for_Freedom&editintro=Template:Disambiguation_needed/editintro&client=Template:Dn">disambiguation needed</a>] & others.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fund_for_American_Studies" title="Fund for American Studies" class="mw-redirect">Fund for American Studies</a> - founded in 1966 - David R. Jones, Charles Edison, Dr. Walter Judd, Marvin Liebman and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley_Jr." title="William F. Buckley Jr." class="mw-redirect">William F. Buckley Jr.</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-9">[10]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Spectator" title="The American Spectator">The American Spectator</a> - founded in 1967 - Publisher Alfred S. Regnery; Editor-in-Chief R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. (both YAF alumni)</li>

<li>Conservative Victory Fund - founded in 1969 - Congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashbrook" title="John Ashbrook" class="mw-redirect">John Ashbrook</a> & <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Daniel_Winter" title="Thomas Daniel Winter">Tom Winter</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americas_Foundation" title="Young Americas Foundation" class="mw-redirect">Young Americas Foundation</a> - founded in 1969 - Students at Vanderbilt University, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Robinson_%28YAF%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Robinson (YAF) (page does not exist)">Ron Robinson (YAF)</a> & others</li>

<li>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party%28United_States%29" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian Party</a> of America - founded in 1971 - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nolan%28libertarian%29" title="David Nolan (libertarian)">David Nolan</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> - founded in 1973 - Kathy King Rothschild, assisted by Connie Campanella.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference" title="Conservative Political Action Conference">Conservative Political Action Conference</a> - started in 1974 - Young Americans for Freedom, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Conservative_Union" title="American Conservative Union">American Conservative Union</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Events" title="Human Events">Human Events</a> & <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conservative_Caucus" title="The Conservative Caucus">The Conservative Caucus</a> - founded in 1974 - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Phillips_%28politics%29" title="Howard Phillips (politics)" class="mw-redirect">Howard Phillips</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_Foundation" title="Second Amendment Foundation">Second Amendment Foundation</a> - founded in 1974 - Alan Gotlieb; Treasurer Sam Slom, Hawaii State Senator and YAF alumnus</li>

<li>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Journalism_Center" title="National Journalism Center">National Journalism Center</a> - founded in 1977 - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Stanton_Evans" title="M. Stanton Evans">M. Stanton Evans</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute">Cato Institute</a> - founded in 1977 - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boaz" title="David Boaz">David Boaz</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_Foundation" title="Reason Foundation">Reason Foundation</a> - founded in 1978 - Robert W. Poole Jr.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li>The Lincoln Institute for Research and Education - founded in 1978 - Jay A. Parker<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leadership_Institute" title="The Leadership Institute" class="mw-redirect">The Leadership Institute</a> - founded in 1979 - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Blackwell" title="Morton Blackwell">Morton Blackwell</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-10">[11]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Conservatives_of_Texas" title="Young Conservatives of Texas">Young Conservatives of Texas</a> - founded in 1980 - Steve Munisteri<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-11">[12]</a></li>

<li>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises_Institute" title="Ludwig von Mises Institute">Ludwig von Mises Institute</a> - founded in 1982 - Lewellyn Rockwell<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research" title="National Center for Public Policy Research">National Center for Public Policy Research</a> - founded in 1982 - Amy Moritz Ridnour.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li>The Institute for Policy Innovation - founded in 1987 - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ferrara" title="Peter Ferrara">Peter Ferrara</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Research_Center" title="Media Research Center">Media Research Center</a> - founded in 1987 - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Brent_Bozell_III" title="L. Brent Bozell III">L. Brent Bozell III</a> & Brent Baker<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United" title="Citizens United" class="mw-redirect">Citizens United</a> - founded in 1988 - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Brown" title="Floyd Brown">Floyd Brown</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li>The American Policy Center - founded in 1988 - Tom DeWeese<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_Institute" title="Goldwater Institute">Goldwater Institute</a> - founded in 1988 - Dr. Michael Sanera</li>

<li>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Legal_and_Policy_Center" title="National Legal and Policy Center">National Legal and Policy Center</a> - founded in 1991 - Kenneth Boehm & <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Flaherty" title="Peter Flaherty" class="mw-redirect">Peter Flaherty</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce_Policy_Institute" title="Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute" class="mw-redirect">Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute</a> - founded in 1993 - Michelle Easton</li>

<li>The Thomas Jefferson Institute - founded in * - Michael Thompson, Chris Braulich, Randal C. Teague & Robert Turner.</li>

<li>Grasstops USA - founded in 2004 - Christoper Carmouche<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">[9]</a></li>

</ul>

<h4>Notable alumni</h4>

<h5>Notable alumni - public service</h5>

<ul>

<li>U.S. President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>, former YAF Honorary National Chairman</li>

<li>U.S Vice President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle" title="Dan Quayle">Dan Quayle</a>;</li>

<li>U.S. Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions" title="Jeff Sessions">Jeff Sessions</a>;</li>

<li>Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Buckley" title="James L. Buckley">James Buckley</a></li>

<li>U.S. Representative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Rohrabacher" title="Dana Rohrabacher">Dana Rohrabacher</a>;</li>

<li>U.S. Representative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Royce" title="Ed Royce">Ed Royce</a>;</li>

<li>U.S. Representative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sensenbrenner" title="James Sensenbrenner" class="mw-redirect">James Sensenbrenner</a>;</li>

<li>U.S. Representative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Poe" title="Ted Poe">Ted Poe</a>;</li>

<li>U.S. Representative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King" title="Peter T. King">Peter King</a>;</li>

<li>U.S. Representative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Fleischmann" title="Chuck Fleischmann">Chuck Fleischmann</a></li>

<li>U.S. Representative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Hensarling" title="Jeb Hensarling">Jeb Hensarling</a>;</li>

<li>U.S. Representative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Manzullo" title="Donald Manzullo" class="mw-redirect">Donald Manzullo</a>;</li>

<li>U.S. Representative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Duncan" title="Jimmy Duncan" class="mw-redirect">Jimmy Duncan</a>;</li>

<li>U.S. Representative Robert E. Bauman, YAF Chairman, ACU founder and national chairman;</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" title="Securities and Exchange Commission" class="mw-redirect">Securities and Exchange Commission</a> Chairman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Cox" title="Christopher Cox">Christopher Cox</a>;</li>

<li>U.S. Circuit Court Judges <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_A.Manion,Alice_Batchelder,Jerry_Smith,David_B.Sentelle,Danny_Boggs,Randall_Rader,Diarmuid_O%27Scannlain,and_Paul_V.Niemeyer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Daniel A. Manion, Alice Batchelder, Jerry Smith, David B. Sentelle, Danny Boggs, Randall Rader, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, and Paul V. Niemeyer (page does not exist)">Daniel A. Manion, Alice Batchelder, Jerry Smith, David B. Sentelle, Danny Boggs, Randall Rader, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, and Paul V. Niemeyer</a>;</li>

<li>California <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislator" title="Legislator">legislator</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Nolan" title="Pat Nolan">Pat Nolan</a>, former California chairman;</li>

</ul>

<h5>Notable alumni - conservative movement</h5>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keene" title="David Keene">David Keene</a>, President of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association">National Rifle Association</a> and former Chairman of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Conservative_Union" title="American Conservative Union">American Conservative Union</a> ;</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Robinson_%28YAF%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Robinson (YAF) (page does not exist)">Ron Robinson</a>, President of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americas_Foundation" title="Young Americas Foundation" class="mw-redirect">Young Americas Foundation</a> and former YAF executive director;</li>

<li>Carol Dawson, YAF founder, former member, US Products Safety Commission, Virginia GOP official;</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Easton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michelle Easton (page does not exist)">Michelle Easton</a>, Founder and President of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce_Policy_Institute" title="Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute" class="mw-redirect">Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute</a>;</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher_Long_%28ISI%29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christopher Long (ISI) (page does not exist)">Christopher Long (ISI)</a>, President of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercollegiate_Studies_Institute" title="Intercollegiate Studies Institute">Intercollegiate Studies Institute</a> and former YAF executive director;</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J.Porter" title="David J. Porter">David J. Porter</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giddings,Texas" title="Giddings, Texas">Giddings</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Commission_of_Texas" title="Railroad Commission of Texas">Railroad Commission of Texas</a>;</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bopp" title="James Bopp" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">James Bopp</a> Jr., Prominent conservative attorney and Republican National Committeeman from Indiana;</li>

<li>Dr. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Edwards" title="Lee Edwards">Lee Edwards</a>, Conservative historian, founding YAF member and founding editor of YAF's New Guard Magazine;</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Stanton_Evans" title="M. Stanton Evans">M. Stanton Evans</a>, YAF founder and conservative writer;</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Viguerie" title="Richard Viguerie">Richard Viguerie</a>, Conservative fundraiser, founder of direct mail marketing, and YAF's first executive director;</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deroy_Murdock" title="Deroy Murdock">Deroy Murdock</a>, Syndicated columnist;</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Levin" title="Mark Levin">Mark Levin</a>, Syndicated talk-show host;</li>

<li>Bruce Eberle, Conservative Fundraiser;</li>

</ul>

<h2>Statement of principles</h2>

<h3>The Sharon Statement</h3>

The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Statement" title="Sharon Statement">Sharon Statement</a> is the founding statement of principles of the Young Americans for Freedom.

Written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.Stanton_Evans" title="M. Stanton Evans">M. Stanton Evans</a> with the assistance of Annette Kirk, wife of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Kirk" title="Russell Kirk">Russell Kirk</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-12">[13]</a> and adopted on September 11, 1960, the statement is named for the location of the inaugural meeting of Young Americans for Freedom, held at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F.Buckley,Jr." title="William F. Buckley, Jr.">William F. Buckley, Jr.</a>'s estate in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon,Connecticut" title="Sharon, Connecticut">Sharon, Connecticut</a>. The statement reads:

WE, as young conservatives, believe:

THAT foremost among the transcendent values is the individual's use of his God-given free will, whence derives his right to be free from the restrictions of arbitrary force;

THAT liberty is indivisible, and that political freedom cannot long exist without economic freedom;

THAT the purpose of government is to protect those freedoms through the preservation of internal order, the provision of national defense, and the administration of justice;

THAT when government ventures beyond these rightful functions, it accumulates power, which tends to diminish order and liberty;

THAT the Constitution of the United States is the best arrangement yet devised for empowering government to fulfill its proper role, while restraining it from the concentration and abuse of power;

THAT the genius of the Constitution - the division of powers - is summed up in the clause that reserves primacy to the several states, or to the people in those spheres not specifically delegated to the Federal government;

THAT the market economy, allocating resources by the free play of supply and demand, is the single economic system compatible with the requirements of personal freedom and constitutional government, and that it is at the same time the most productive supplier of human needs;

THAT when government interferes with the work of the market economy, it tends to reduce the moral and physical strength of the nation, that when it takes from one to bestow on another, it diminishes the incentive of the first, the integrity of the second, and the moral autonomy of both;

THAT we will be free only so long as the national sovereignty of the United States is secure; that history shows periods of freedom are rare, and can exist only when free citizens concertedly defend their rights against all enemies…

THAT the forces of international Communism are, at present, the greatest single threat to these liberties;[recently invoked on PC]

THAT the United States should stress victory over, rather than coexistence with this menace; and

THAT American foreign policy must be judged by this criterion: does it serve the just interests of the United States?

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<h2>Publication</h2>

<h3>The New Guard - Yesterday and Today</h3>

The New Guard is the official publication of Young Americans for Freedom.

Founded in March 1961, one year after the creation of YAF, its first issue appeared under the editorship of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Edwards" title="Lee Edwards">Lee Edwards</a>. Starting out as a sixteen page publication it grew in size and continued as a monthly or ten times a year magazine until 1978 when it was converted to a quarterly magazine with interim newsletters, and was published sporadically thereafter. As the initial editorial noted,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Wayne_Thorburn_2010.2C_p.51-13">[14]</a>

<dl>

<dd>We are sick unto death of collectivism, socialism, statism and the other utopian isms which have poisoned the minds, weakened the wills and smothered the spirits of Americans for three decades and more.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-Wayne_Thorburn_2010.2C_p.51-13">[14]</a></dd>

</dl>

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The New Guard served as the voice of Goldwater-Buckley and American conservative youth for decades, but in the 1990s, during the rebuilding years of YAF, the magazine went defunct.

Today, similar to the situation in 1961 when the hard Left decided to take the country down the path of "collectivism, socialism, statism and the other utopian isms," the conservative youth have been re-invigorated, launching a renewed call for the American values of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, traditional values, strong defense and adherence to the Constitution.

In 2010 The New Guard was relaunched and saw its debut at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference" title="Conservative Political Action Conference">CPAC</a> 2010. Under the guidance of YAF's former Executive Director Jordan Marks, and The New Guard's current Executive Editor, Christopher Bedford, YAF gathered a group of writers, editors and artists to re-found The New Guard. The re-launch came 49 years after it first stood up against a liberal elite that believed Conservatism was dead and socialism was king.

Currently The New Guard is published quarterly and is handed out to thousands of young conservatives across the country.

<h2>Philosophy</h2>

Since its founding, YAF continuously identified itself as "conservative". However, the term "conservative" has changed in meaning over several generations. Before World War II, most American conservatives were non-interventionist. But as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> began to dominate American foreign policy, the old conservatism disintegrated. After <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taft" title="Robert Taft">Robert Taft</a> was defeated for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party" title="United States Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican</a> nomination in 1952, non-interventionist conservatism mostly vanished. In the 1950s, a new kind of conservatism arose. This new ideology was formulated in large part by the newspaper <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Events" title="Human Events">Human Events</a>, the magazine <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a>, and National Review's editor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F.Buckley,Jr." title="William F. Buckley, Jr.">William F. Buckley, Jr.</a> This new conservatism combined <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-market_economics" title="Free-market economics" class="mw-redirect">free-market economics</a>, respect for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_values" title="Traditional values">traditional values</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_order_%28politics%29" title="Law and order (politics)">orderly society</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communism" title="Anti-communism">anti-communism</a>.

In the late 1960s, the term <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism">libertarianism</a> began to be used for a political philosophy. Many of those who popularized this term were initially part of the conservative movement, but came to separate themselves from the conservatives on certain issues. Libertarians within YAF believed, for example, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_draft" title="Military draft" class="mw-redirect">military draft</a> was a violation of the individual freedom the organization claimed to embrace. To oppose it they were willing to reject existing laws against burning draft cards and supported those who fled to Canada or went underground when drafted for military service. The conservatives (or traditionalists as they were sometimes called)also opposed the draft directed their efforts towards changing the law. In the end, the goals of both groups were achieved, and YAF was "in the forefront of the drive to end the draft and create a volunteer military."

After 1969, the relationship between conservatives and libertarians in YAF was often rocky.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-14">[15]</a> A majority of members identified themselves simply as conservative, but some identified as both conservative and libertarian, and still others identified themselves simply as libertarian. From time to time, power struggles broke out; when this happened, the libertarians almost always ended up losing.

In later years, new viewpoints would be amalgamated by the conservative movement, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism" title="Neoconservatism">neoconservatism</a> in the early 1970s, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Right" title="New Right">New Right</a> in the late 1970s and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_right" title="Christian right">Religious Right</a> in the 1980s. Some YAF members identified with some of these philosophies, others opposed them and still others were content to simply identify themselves as conservative without further specificity.

Since its founding, YAF members on college campuses focused primarily on national and international politics, rather than on-campus politics. Thus members were much more likely to pass out <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handbills" title="Handbills" class="mw-redirect">handbills</a> for a candidate for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_the_United_States" title="Congress of the United States" class="mw-redirect">Congress</a> than for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_body" title="Student body" class="mw-redirect">student body</a> president.

<h2>History</h2>

<h3>National conservative activism, 1960–1965</h3>

In September 1960, about 90 young people met at the Sharon, Connecticut home of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley" title="William F. Buckley" class="mw-redirect">William F. Buckley</a>, Jr. They gathered to lay the groundwork for a new national conservative youth organization. It is here that Young Americans for Freedom was born and their statement of principles, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Statement" title="Sharon Statement">Sharon Statement</a>, was drafted. The New Guard magazine made its debut as the official magazine of YAF in 1961. In the first four years of its existence, YAF grew rapidly on college campuses.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> joined the YAF National Advisory Board in 1962 and for 42 years served as the Honorary Chairman.

In the 1960s, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party" title="United States Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican Party</a> was divided between its conservative wing, led by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Goldwater</a>, and its more <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_in_the_United_States" title="Liberalism in the United States">liberal</a> wing, led by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller" title="Nelson Rockefeller">Nelson Rockefeller</a>. YAF members fell squarely on Goldwater's side and spearheaded the campaign of Barry Goldwater for president. However, some members had sympathy with the conservative Southern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrats</a> known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat" title="Dixiecrat">Dixiecrats</a>, and thus from its inception YAF was deliberately <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-partisan" title="Non-partisan" class="mw-redirect">non-partisan</a>.

On March 7, 1962, a YAF-sponsored conservative rally filled <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden" title="Madison Square Garden">Madison Square Garden</a> in New York City, drawing 18,000 people. In attendance was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Goldwater</a>. The event has been described as "the birthday of the conservative movement."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-15">[16]</a>

The second national YAF convention was held in 1963 at the Gault Hotel in Florida. With over 450 voting delegates in attendance. Hotel management at the Gault Hotel refused accommodations to Don Parker, an African-American delegate from Brooklyn. As word of this spread around the YAFer's in attendance, a number of delegates and numerous others began gathering in the lobby of the hotel demanding that either the Gault Hotel allow all the black YAFers to stay and the hotel change its segregation policy or YAF would move the convention to another site. From that day on any person was allowed into the Gault Hotel.

By 1964, YAF was a major force in the campaign to nominate Goldwater, and then after his nomination, to elect him president. Goldwater's run for the White House catalyzed YAF more than any other event in its history. Lee Edwards, former New Guard editor, said "Barry Goldwater made YAF, but YAF also made Barry Goldwater." Goldwater's massive defeat in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.presidential_election,1964" title="U.S. presidential election, 1964" class="mw-redirect">presidential election of 1964</a> demoralized many members.

"STOP RED TRADE" becomes a hallmark of YAF's 50 plus year history. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_Truck" title="Mack Truck" class="mw-redirect">Mack Truck</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_Tire_and_Rubber_Company" title="Firestone Tire and Rubber Company">Firestone</a> Tire and Rubber were targeted for engaging in high visibility trade with the Soviet Bloc. YAF successfully stopped Firestone's attempt to build a synthetic rubber plant in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communist</a> Romania through letter-writing campaigns, boycotts, and demonstrations. YAF's plan to distribute 500,000 flyers at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_500" title="Indianapolis 500">Indianapolis 500</a> was seen as a key to the decision by Firestone executives to cancel their Romanian plans in April 1965.

YAF faced opposition from groups like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nazi_Party" title="American Nazi Party">American Nazi Party</a> because of the presence of Jews in the organization and its close relationship with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Liebman" title="Marvin Liebman">Marvin Liebman</a>. Most members also kept their distance from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation" title="Racial segregation">segregationists</a> such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace" title="George Wallace">George Wallace</a> and conspiracy theorists such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society" title="John Birch Society">John Birch Society</a>.

However, YAF did honor segregationist and Senator from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond" title="Strom Thurmond">Strom Thurmond</a> with its Freedom Award in 1962.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-16">[17]</a> [100th bd took out ___trent lott] An unsubstantiated claim has been made that a YAF member was involved with the 'Welcome Mr. Kennedy to Dallas' ad placed in the Dallas Morning News (coincidentally on the morning of JFK's assassination), which accused him of ignoring the constitution.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-17">[18]</a>

<h3>Reaction to radical activism, 1965–1971</h3>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism">Liberalism</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_left" title="Far left" class="mw-redirect">radicalism</a> dominated campuses from the mid-1960s until the early 1970s, primarily as a result of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Movement" title="Civil Rights Movement" class="mw-redirect">civil rights movement</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>. Though outnumbered, YAF went on the offensive against radical left-wing organizations by challenging and rebutting groups like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_%281960_organization%29" title="Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)" class="mw-redirect">Students for a Democratic Society</a> (SDS) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_MOBE&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New MOBE (page does not exist)">New MOBE</a> in support of a U.S. victory in Vietnam. These fights carried YAF into its second decade.

YAF members tended to hold similar opinions to their older compatriots within the conservative movement. YAF began and continued a number of projects to support Vietnam veterans and their causes. "Project Appreciation" gave YAFers the opportunity to write, visit, and provide needed supplies to hospitalized veterans. YAF worked on various POW/MIA issues and treasonous "Hanoi" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda" title="Jane Fonda">Jane Fonda</a> became a target of YAF attacks. While U.S. soldiers were fighting in the fields of Vietnam, YAF was fighting on the college campuses and in communities across the country. YAF, though opposing the draft, supported the move to resist communism in Southeast Asia and in American classrooms. Most Members vocally supported an aggressive policy of seeking victory in the Vietnam War, but opposed how the war was being conducted, such as the use of conscription and allowing the enemy sanctuary in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vietnam" title="North Vietnam">North Vietnam</a>.

A faction of YAF philosophically extended the group's traditional support of limited government in economic issues to social issues and a foreign policy of non-interventionism. This group came to be known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism">libertarians</a>. A more serious and lasting challenge for YAF came from this group, those who believed in limited or even no government - radical libertarians and anarchists.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-18">[19]</a> Members of this faction were among the founding members of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party_%28United_States%29" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian Party</a> in 1971. In fact the founding of the Libertarian Party was a direct effect of the purging of YAF's Libertarian and Anarchist Caucuses a YAF's 1969 national convention in St. Louis.

The majority of members during this era supported <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>'s successful bid for governor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> in 1966, as well as his unsuccessful bid for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.presidential_election,1968" title="U.S. presidential election, 1968" class="mw-redirect">Republican presidential nomination in 1968</a>.

<h3>Advocacy politics, 1971–1985</h3>

In the 1970s, YAF became much older, demographically speaking. Rather than merely staging campus demonstrations, they focused on influencing national politics by lobbying and occasionally staging and publicizing small demonstrations.

YAF went on the offensive when President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Nixon</a> enacted wage controls, price controls, abandoned the gold standard and opened relations with the communist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="People's Republic of China" class="mw-redirect">People's Republic of China</a>, ceasing relations with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China" title="Republic of China" class="mw-redirect">Taiwan</a>. YAF felt he was abandoning conservative principles so YAF publicly denounced the administration for these moves, becoming the first conservative organization to do so.

A number of YAF projects were started as ad hoc committees and affiliated groups to address specific issues. These groups include Youth for the Voluntary Prayer Amendment, Student's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Young America's Foundation, Free Campus News Service, STOP-NSA Committee, and the National Student Committee for Victory in Vietnam. Today some of these organizations still exist, and continue "to fight the good fight."

In 1974, YAF, along with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Conservative_Union" title="American Conservative Union">American Conservative Union</a>, sponsored a modest and ambitious gathering called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference" title="Conservative Political Action Conference">Conservative Political Action Conference</a> (CPAC). CPAC has become the largest annual gathering of conservatives and is still held annually in the DC area.

On college campuses, YAF was more conservative and less partisan than the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Republicans" title="College Republicans">College Republicans</a>. Members were willing to oppose liberal candidates and support conservative candidates regardless or party affiliation. During many local and national races throughout this era, YAF members were divided about whether to support a moderately conservative electable candidate or to support a staunchly conservative long-shot candidate.

YAF supported <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Reagan's</a> almost-successful bid to win the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.presidential_election,1976" title="U.S. presidential election, 1976" class="mw-redirect">Republican presidential nomination in 1976</a> and his victorious race for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.presidential_election,1980" title="U.S. presidential election, 1980" class="mw-redirect">presidency in 1980</a>.

The Carter Administration was an easy target of YAF. With government growth the order of the day, Carter's policies flew in the face of all that YAF stood for. YAF was active in opposing the Panama Canal and SALT treaties. The Iran Hostage Crisis focused public criticism on the Carter Administration and provided YAF a rallying point in 1979. YAF held a campaign to generate thousands of letters of encouragement to the hostages and pressed the Administration to take action.

In 1980, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Conservatives_of_Texas" title="Young Conservatives of Texas">Young Conservatives of Texas</a> was formed by a group of YAF members in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> that broke off to found their own organization. Since that time, YAF itself has never had a major presence in the state. That same year, YAF's long time friend and advisor Ronald Reagan became the 40th President of the United States. The election of Reagan ushered in the conservative decade. YAFers around the nation mobilized in support of Reagan's agenda.

Many YAFers received appointments to the Reagan Administration. Reagan Administration officials and prospective appointees who were targeted by the radical left were strongly defended by YAF. YAFers rallied to the support of Labor Secretary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Donovan" title="Raymond Donovan" class="mw-redirect">Raymond Donovan</a>, Interior Secretary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt" title="James Watt">James Watt</a>, Circuit Court Judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan_Manion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dan Manion (page does not exist)">Dan Manion</a>, Supreme Court nominee <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork" title="Robert Bork">Robert Bork</a>, and NSC staff member Lt. Colonel <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North" title="Oliver North">Oliver North</a>.

By the mid-1980s, many of YAF's leaders were in their thirties and long out of college. Some of them held positions in government while continuing to run the organization as a lobbying and fund-raising group for conservative causes. At the same time, internal problems paralyzed the YAF hierarchy. The national board was still controlled by lawyers and lobbyists who remembered the glory days of YAF fund-raising in the early 1980s. The new activist element resented and distrusted the <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Old_guard" class="extiw" title="wikt:Old guard">old guard</a>, and began to gradually whittle away at their power.

<h3>Campus activism, 1985–1990</h3>

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As YAF grew older, most of the original members went on to other things, while younger members dominated YAF. The conservative decade also brings a new resurgence of left-wing intolerance on college campuses. Radical left-wing administrators, faculty, and students go on the rampage in their attempts to silence conservative student organizations and publications. YAFers began focusing on opposing these movements and continued to fight to bring First Amendment rights to college campuses. This growth was strongest in California, where members staged protests in favor of aid to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaraguan</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras" title="Contras">Contras</a>, in favor of Reagan's anti-communist policies and in opposition to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>.

YAF scored a victory for free speech when the Supreme Court rendered its decision in Boos vs. Barry. The ruling overturned an ordinance in our nation's capitol that forbade demonstrators against a foreign government to carry their protest within 500 feet of the nation's embassy. YAF stood solidly behind the Reagan Doctrine and supported Freedom Fighters around the globe through campus activities. YAF sponsored a variety of speaking tours by representatives of the Nicaraguan Resistance, the Mujahaddin of Afghanistan, UNITA from Angola, and the ARENA Party of El Salvador.

In 1989, an alliance of Californian and New York activists ousted most of the old guard from national leadership positions.

YAF opened the decade after launching the most successful Fall Offensive in recent history. YAF recruiters were active in 16 states and on over 75 college campuses. The drive centered on a push to pardon Oliver North and generated tremendous response in support of this American hero. wiki bs

<h3>The rebuilding years 1991–1999</h3>

Though the presence of National YAF was lax during the 1990s as they were focusing on revitalizing and rebuilding the organization, there remained very active pockets of YAF activity throughout the country, campus charters and statewide units that organized and operated on their own. California YAF continued as a strong conservative force on campuses and in that state's political arena.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-19">[20]</a> Many states like Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and others still had very active individual campus chapters.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-20">[21]</a>

By 1991, the national board of YAF contained a majority of Californians—the first time a single state had had a majority in the governing council. However, this new régime found itself unable to effectively run YAF as a financial and organizational entity. The strength of its activism was shattered by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Gulf War</a> that begin in January 1991. Most members considered President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a> to be insufficiently conservative, and his rhetoric justifying the war -- "a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_world_order_%28politics%29" title="New world order (politics)">new world order</a>" -- to be dangerously <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia" title="Utopia">utopian</a>. While conservative-oriented students on campuses around the country were showing support for the American effort against Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, many YAF leaders of the time were expressing opposition to the war effort. Thus, an opportunity to expand the organization's membership was lost.

In August 1991, YAF held its 16th National Convention in Washington D.C. YAF members from around the country gathered to reaffirm its commitment to conservative principles and heard such speakers as William F. Buckley, Jr., Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, and G. Gordon Liddy. The following year, YAF National Chairman Jeff Wright met with Vice President Dan Quayle and delivered over 40,000 petitions in support of his renomination as Vice President. YAF launched an Anita Hill Truth Squad and YAFers confronted Anita Hill on college campuses across America. YAF pushed 1992 Republican National Convention to continue strong support for conservative issues.

At the1995 Conservative Political Action Conference, YAF held a "Colloquium on Revolution." Young Americans for Freedom members rallied around speakers such as YAF founding elder Howard Phillips, CongressmanB1 bob  Robert Dornan, Joseph Sobran, and other speakers motivating the young crowds to continue YAF's conservative charge to preserve freedom and individual liberty. In 1996, National chairman Jon Pastore led a delegation of YAFers to bring national attention to a group called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Man/Boy_Love_Association" title="North American Man/Boy Love Association">North American Man/Boy Love Association</a> (NAMBLA). NAMBLA members got quite a surprise at one of their events in Washington DC in 1996 when YAFers held banners warning the effects of 'deviant and un-natural sexual practices.'

In 1997, Brian Park, National Director and state Chairman of California YAF, organized support for the rights of American Indians when their tribal sovereignty was being encroached upon by Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Wilson" title="Pete Wilson">Pete Wilson</a>. Full page newspaper ads centered on YAF’s resolution to support tribal sovereignty were place in every major newspaper across the state of California to pressure the Governor. The negotiations failed and the historic Proposition 5 was placed on the ballot in 1998. YAF made over 1 million voter contacts with direct-mail pieces to educate the public on American Indian Sovereignty issues and the measure passed overwhelming with bi-partisan support of 62.4% to 32.6%. Proposition 5 was eventually challenged in the courts and YAF filed a “Friends of the Court” brief (case number S074850) with the State Supreme court in 1999. Though YAF lost, its leg work assisted in a passage of Proposition 1A in year 2000 with no real opposition to fix the legal problems with Proposition 5.

In 1998 Cigar-Man was launched against President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>. A YAFer dressed in a Cigar-Costume followed President Clinton to various fundraising functions to highlight Clinton’s presidential achievements.

At the 1999 Academy Awards in Los Angeles, YAFer's rallied in support of the Academy of Motion Pictures decision to award famous director <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elia_Kazan" title="Elia Kazan">Elia Kazan</a> with the lifetime achievement award. Confronted by over 600 union activists and other leftists YAFers continued with their peaceful pro-Kazan rally. When the rally turned ugly YAFers defended themselves and assisted the police to apprehend the violent leftist perpetrators.omfg

Later in the 1990s, YAF returned to national advocacy politics. The national office organized petition drives and staged a variety of events to promote the conservative viewpoint on a variety of public issues. Some of these events would have an attention-grabbing theme such as "Pardon Oliver North" and "Impeach Janet Reno".

<h3>Resurgence 2000–2010</h3>

<div class="thumbcaption">Members of the University of Michigan YAF Chapter protest affirmative action in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Arbor,_Michigan" title="Ann Arbor, Michigan">Ann Arbor, Michigan</a>. This picture appeared on the national YAF organization's website banner.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-21">[22]</a></div>

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Beginning in 2009, Young Americans for Freedom has organized a number of new college chapters to supplement the long-standing units on campuses such as Penn State. On college campuses, YAF chapters have been involved in activities including sponsoring conservative speakers, rallies supporting the armed forces, advocacy for strict control of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration" title="Illegal immigration">illegal immigration</a>, demonstrations against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action" title="Affirmative action">affirmative action</a> and protesting liberal campus speakers.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-22">[23]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-23">[24]</a> YAF has also organized protests against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislation" title="Legislation">legislation</a> enacting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-discrimination" title="Anti-discrimination" class="mw-redirect">anti-discrimination</a> protection for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsexuals" title="Transsexuals" class="mw-redirect">transsexuals</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-24">[25]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-autogenerated1-25">[26]</a>

In 2009, YAF, a coalition of Tea Party groups, retired police and fire fighter association, and Keep America Safe hosted the "9/11 Never Forget" Rally in New York City. The Coalition united to fight the decision of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to try the 9/11 co-conspirators in New York City’s federal court.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The coalition claimed Holder's decision gave alleged war criminals the same rights as American citizens; it also said trying the defendants in New York City would endanger the citizenry. The rally brought nationwide attention to Holder's decision and eventually led the Department of Justice and the Obama administration to move the trial from New York City.

<h3>Present</h3>

<h4>Unification with Young Americas Foundation</h4>

On March 16, 2011, Young Americans for Freedom passed National Board Resolution #001, unifying the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_America%27s_Foundation" title="Young America's Foundation">Young America's Foundation</a> with Young Americans for Freedom on April 1, 2011.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-26">[27]</a> Young America’s Foundation provides students with speakers, activism programs, conferences and opportunities to learn about Ronald Reagan’s accomplishments by visiting his beloved ranch, Rancho del Cielo, in Santa Barbara, California.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-yaf.org-27">[28]</a> Young America's Foundation has been known for bringing speakers like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter" title="Ann Coulter">Ann Coulter</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horowitz" title="David Horowitz">David Horowitz</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin" title="Michelle Malkin">Michelle Malkin</a> to College Republican groups across the United States.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-28">[29]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-29">[30]</a>

As of May 16, 2011 Young Americans for Freedom officially became a project of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_America%27s_Foundation" title="Young America's Foundation">Young America's Foundation</a>. The existing board members of Young Americans for Freedom, at the time of the unification, became part of a newly formed [board of governors]. Existing YAF chapters are being brought under the Foundation’s auspices. Both existing and new clubs will receive materials, training, support, and encouragement based on decades of activism experience from both organizations.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_note-yaf.org-27">[28]</a>

<h2>Footnotes</h2>

<li id="cite_note-Wayne_Thorburn_2010.2C_p.487-0">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Wayne_Thorburn_2010.2C_p.487_0-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Wayne_Thorburn_2010.2C_p._487_0-1">b</a> Wayne Thorburn,"A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement," Jameson Books Inc., 2010, p. 487.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-1">^{</a></span}> Kenneth J. Heineman, Put your bodies upon the wheels: student revolt in the 1960s (2001) p 160</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-2">^{</a></span}> Gregory L. Schneider, Cadres for Conservatism: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary Right (1999) p 162</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-3">^{</a></span}> Jerome Tuccille, Radical libertarianism: a right wing alternative (1970) p 104</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-4">^{</a></span}> Rebecca E. Klatch, A generation divided: the new left, the new right, and the 1960s (1999) p 9</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-5">^{</a></span}> Wayne Thorburn,"A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement," Jameson Books Inc., 2010, p. 486.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-6">^{</a></span}> Karl Zinsmeister,"The Other Activists," The American Enterprise, May–June 1997, p37.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-7">^{</a></span}> Wayne Thorburn,"A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement," Jameson Books Inc., 2010, p. 487-489.</li>

<li id="cite_note-Organizations_YAFers_Started-8">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-1">b</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-2">c</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-3">d</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-4">e</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-5">f</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-6">g</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-7">h</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-8">i</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-9">j</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-10">k</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-11">l</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-12">m</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-13">n</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-14">o</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-15">p</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Organizations_YAFers_Started_8-16">q</a> Wayne Thorburn,"A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement," Jameson Books Inc., 2010, p. 489-498.</li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-9">^{</a></span}> Wayne Thorburn,"A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement," Jameson Books Inc., 2010, p. 535.</li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-10">^{</a></span}> Wayne Thorburn,"A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement," Jameson Books Inc., 2010, p. 531.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-11">^{</a></span}> Wayne Thorburn,"A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement," Jameson Books Inc., 2010, p. 419.</li>

<li id="cite_note-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-12">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kirkcenter.org/documents/ayk-speech-2004-05.html">The Kirk Center - Talk by Annette Kirk</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-Wayne_Thorburn_2010.2C_p.51-13">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Wayne_Thorburn_2010.2C_p.51_13-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-Wayne_Thorburn_2010.2C_p._51_13-1">b</a> Wayne Thorburn,"A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement," Jameson Books Inc., 2010, p. 51.</li>

<li id="cite_note-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-14">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/BruceBartlett/2006/12/12/libertarian_gop_defection">Bruce Bartlett :: Townhall.com :: Libertarian GOP defection?</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-15">^{</a></span}> Bernard von Bothmer (December 31, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/?id=IRbGrwLqaeEC">Framing the sixties: the use and abuse of a decade from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Press" title="University of Massachusetts Press">University of Massachusetts Press</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-55849-732-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-55849-732-0">978-1-55849-732-0</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-16"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-16">^{</a></span}> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Foner" title="Eric Foner">Eric Foner</a>, Give Me Liberty! An American History Volume 2, Norton Seagull Edition 2006, 890.</li>

<li id="cite_note-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-17">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh23/html/WH_Vol23_0359b.htm">"Warren Commission Hearings Vol XXIII"</a>. Retrieved 2009 9 27. see also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome_mr_kennedy_to_dallas_small.jpg" title="File:Welcome mr kennedy to dallas small.jpg">File:Welcome mr kennedy to dallas small.jpg</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-18"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-18">^{</a></span}> Wayne Thorburn,"A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement," Jameson Books Inc., 2010, p. 250.</li>

<li id="cite_note-19"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-19">^{</a></span}> Wayne Thorburn,"A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement," Jameson Books Inc., 2010, p. 472.</li>

<li id="cite_note-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-20">^{</a></span}> Wayne Thorburn,"A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement," Jameson Books Inc., 2010, p. 473.</li>

<li id="cite_note-21"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-21">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://yaf.com/index.php">http://yaf.com/index.php</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-22">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.ourmidland.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=17349959&BRD=2289&PAG=461&dept_id=578054&rfi=8">http://www.ourmidland.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=17349959&BRD=2289&PAG=461&dept_id=578054&rfi=8</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-23">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/cnnu.affirmative.action/">"CNNU: Students debate affirmative action - CNN.com"</a>. CNN.</li>

<li id="cite_note-24"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-24">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/NEWS01/611210331/1382">http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/NEWS01/611210331/1382</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-autogenerated1-25"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-autogenerated1_25-0">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=38845">The State News: Lansing ordinance prompts protest</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-26"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-26">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yaf.com/blog_post/show/66">"YAF National Board Resolution #001"</a>. Retrieved March 21, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-yaf.org-27">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-yaf.org_27-0">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-yaf.org_27-1">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.yaf.org/unification-press-release.aspx">http://www.yaf.org/unification-press-release.aspx</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-28"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-28">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yaf.org/eventdetails.aspx?id=5091">"David Horowitz at St. John's University"</a>. Retrieved March 21, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-29"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Americans_for_Freedom#cite_ref-29">^{</a></span}> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yaf.org/eventdetails.aspx?id=5546">"Ann Coulter at the University of Wyoming"</a>. Retrieved March 21, 2011.</li>

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<h2>Further reading</h2>

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<li>Andrew, John A., III. The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press (1997), 286 pages, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0813524008" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0-8135-2400-8</a> (paper). Covers the history of YAF from 1960 to 1964.</li>

<li>Crawford, Alan. Thunder on the Right: The "New Right" and the Politics of Resentment. New York: Pantheon Books (1980), 381 pages, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/039474862X" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0-394-74862-X</a> (paper). A negative portrayal of 1970s and 1980s conservatism, including much material on YAF.</li>

<li>Klatch, Rebecca E "A Generation Divided" Berkeley, University of California Press (1999), 334 pages, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0520217136" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0-520-21713-6</a> (paper). A scholarly and academic work with many references to Young Americans for Freedom, SDS, and campus activism of the 1960s and early 1970s.</li>

<li>Nash, George H. The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945. Wilmington, Delaware: Intercollegiate Studies Institute (1996), 467 pages, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1882926129" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 1-882926-12-9</a> (hardcover). A history of the different strains of conservative ideology from 1945 until 1976, updated to 1996 in the second edition.</li>

<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Rusher" title="William A. Rusher">Rusher, William A.</a> The Rise of the Right. New York: National Review Books (1993), 261 pages, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0962784125" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0-9627841-2-5</a> (paper). A history of American political conservatism from 1953 until 1981, updated to 1993 in the second edition. Includes much material on YAF.</li>

<li>Schneider, Gregory L. Cadres for Conservatism: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary Right. New York: New York University Press (1999), 263 pages, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/081478108X" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 0-8147-8108-X</a> (hardcover). Covers the history of YAF from 1960 to 1985.</li>

<li>Thorburn, Wayne. A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement. Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books (2010), 564 pages, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780898031683" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 978-0-89803-168-3</a> (hardcover). Covers the history of YAF from 1960 to the mid-1990s.</li>

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<h2>External links</h2>

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