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HUGH NEWTON's cheerful rubicundity was a fixture on the conservative scene for more than 40 years, whenever he could spare a little time from his mission: spreading the conservative word to the news media.
After serving in the Army in the Korean War, where he saw the face of Communism close up and did not like it, he went to work as a reporter for a small newspaper in Virginia, and then became a corporate speechwriter. But in 1964--Goldwater's year--he decided, as he put it, that "I wanted to work for something I believed in." He joined Reed Larson's National Right to Work Committee as its public-relations man, and before long news of the battle against forced union membership was spreading everywhere.
In 1973, Paul Weyrich, Joseph Coors, and Ed Feulner started a little organization called the Heritage Foundation, ...