![]() ![]() ![]() While still a Republican Edwards is now highly critical of both political parties and a leader of a na tional reform movement to (as the subtitle of his 2013 book annou nces) “turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans”. Bush’s presidential campaign, and was a foreign policy advisor to George W. ![]() He directed joint House-Senate task forces advising Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign, served on a congressional steering committee advising George H. Mickey chaired the policy task forces for the Reagan presidential campaignĮdwards was a member of Congress for 16 years, rising from back-bencher to one of his party’s top leadership positions, chairing his party’s policy committee, and serving as a ranking member of both the House Appropriations and Budget committees and the House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations.Īs a Republican – and as a conservative when American conservatism was considerably different than it is today – he was one of the three founding trustees of the Heritage Foundation and national chairman of both the American Conservative Union and Washington’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference. Mickey Edwards has built not one but a series of overlapping careers – a political leader, a reformer, a journalist, a teacher, an author, a public speaker, an activist, and a mentor to some of the nation’s most prominent public figures. ![]()
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