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Party organization & leaders

• Republican National Committee [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Kenneth Melman [r]: Managing Director and Head of Global Public Affairs for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.; board member, National Endowment for Democracy; Chairman of the Republican National Committee (2005-2006) and Campaign Manager of President George W. Bush's re-election campaign. He also served as Chief of Staff to Texas Congresswoman Kay Granger from 1996 to 1999; trustee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Franklin and Marshall College, and the Strong American Schools Foundation; member, Council on Foreign Relations [e]

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• America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy [r]: A 2006 book by Francis Fukuyama, examining the role of neoconservatism in American foreign policy, its execution by the George W. Bush Administration, and a proposed evolved political philosophy to replace it [e]
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• American Enterprise Institute [r]: A major U.S. political, economic and international relations "think tank", which has always been associated with a free enterprise view, and has, in recent decades, become more associated with neoconservatism and an interventionist foreign policy; many of its fellows went into policy positions in Republican administrations, and returned at the end of their tenure [e]
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• Douglas Feith [r]: An American strategic analyst, associated with neoconservatism, who held posts including Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in 2001-2005, when he advised Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War; fellow of the Hudson Institute [e]
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• Reconstruction [r]: The attempt from 1865 to 1877 in American history to resolve the issues of the American Civil War. [e]
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• Richard Armitage [r]: A U.S. foreign policy specialist, first a U.S. Navy officer in the Vietnam War, who rose to positions including Deputy Secretary of State in the first term of the George W. Bush Administration; board, International Crisis Group [e]
• Richard Nixon [r]: American politician (1913–1994); President of the United States 1969–1974. Known for ending the Vietnam War and for the Watergate scandal. [e]
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• Warren G. Harding [r]: President of the USA, 1921-23, his administration is best known for the scandals that erupted. [e]
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