Archive profile
Former Nixon administration official who founded the Conservative Caucus after leaving government and became a prominent New Right organizer.
Why this entry is in the archive
Part of the early post-Watergate network that built permanent grassroots and lobbying organizations rather than relying only on campaigns.
Timeline
- New Right organizing infrastructure multiplies
Weyrich launches the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress; Howard Phillips builds the Conservative Caucus; direct mail and local activist training become repeatable organizational tools.
Paul Weyrich · Free Congress / Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress · The Conservative Caucus · Richard Viguerie
Relationship records
Howard Phillips → The Conservative Caucus
Founder · 1970s
Evidence status: documented