Smith Richardson Foundation

From Powerbase
Revision as of 21:51, 6 September 2009 by Tom Griffin (talk | contribs) (started a page)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to: navigation, search

The Smith Richardson Foundation is a US philanthropic institution established in 1935 by H. Smith Richardson, the founder of the Vicks VapoRub fortune.[1]

In 1973, control of the foundation passed to Randolph Richardson, who was determined that it should defend free-market capitalism. An early move was to pay off the annual debt of his friend Irving Kristol's journal, The Public Interest.[2]

In 1975, on Kristol's recommendation, Richardson appointed Leslie Lenkowsky as chief program officer.[3] Lenkowsky oversaw the funding of a number of books on supply-side economics, notably the 'trilogy' of Jude Wanniski's The Way the World Works, George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty, and Michael Novak's The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism.[4]

People

Trustees

Officers

Governors

Zbigniew Brzezinski | Dr. Christopher DeMuth | Dr. Martin Feldstein | Stephen Goldsmith | Dr. Fred C. Iklé | Dr. Roderick MacFarquhar | General Edward C. Meyer (Ret.) | Dr. Arvid R. Nelson | Dr. June E. O'Neill | Jane B. Preyer | Adele Richardson Ray | Lunsford Richardson, Jr. Peter L. Richardson | Stuart S. Richardson | Dr. Lawrence Sherman | E. William Stetson | R. James Woolsey | Dr. Edward F. Zigler

Program Staff

Contact

External Resources

Notes

  1. History, Smith Richardson Foundation, accessed 6 September 2009.
  2. Sidney Blumenthal, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, Union Square Press, 2008, p.175.
  3. Sidney Blumenthal, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, Union Square Press, 2008, p.175.
  4. Sidney Blumenthal, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, Union Square Press, 2008, p.175.