2024-08-09
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Welcome to the Inquiry.
I'm Charmaine Cozier.
Each week, one question, four expert witnesses, and an answer January 1981 during one of his first cabinet meetings as US President, Ronald Reagan hands out copies of a new book.
It's called Mandate for Policy Management in a Conservative Administration.
It's published by a non profit public policy group called the Heritage Foundation.
By the end of President Reagan's first year, around 60% of the book's 2,000 action points are in place or in Progress.
More than 40 years later, US voters are months away from choosing their next President and the 9th edition of Mandate for Leadership is a key part of a wider Heritage foundation plan called Project 2025.
Some see it as an essential recipe for political success.
Others view it as deeply unpalatable and dangerous.
This week we're asking how might project 2025 shape the future of part one?
Presidents and precedents.
The Heritage foundation is a large and very influential think tank, part of the conservative landscape in America.
It has hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and historically it's played an influential role in shaping Republican presidents.
Don Moynihan is a professor at the McCourt School Public Policy at Georgetown University.
In Washington, D.C.
the mandate for Leadership document is not new.