Episode 350: Dr. Kevin Roberts on becoming Heritage’s New President
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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The Heritage Foundation is the nation’s premier conservative think tank. They have over 500,000 members and focus on public policy efforts around the issues of education, health care, border security and election integrity to name just a few. Newt’s guest is Dr. Kevin Roberts, who serves as the seventh president in The Heritage Foundation’s 48-year history. Prior to joining Heritage, he was the chief executive officer at The Texas Public Policy Foundation.
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| 0:35.5 | On this episode of Newt's World I regard the Heritage Foundation as the nation's premier |
| 0:41.3 | conservative think tank. They have more than 500,000 members and they focus on public policy. |
| 0:47.8 | I've worked with Heritage Foundation often on since the mid 1970s when it was created |
| 0:53.9 | by Ed Fulmer and I can tell you that their impact has been enormous. In fact sitting on my desk |
| 1:01.7 | is a copy of Mandate for Change which is the massive book they put together for Ronald Reagan |
| 1:08.3 | which outlined with some 250 contributors how you could take over and begin to move the Jimmy Carter |
| 1:15.8 | government towards a more conservative base. So it's very important how the Heritage Foundation |
| 1:21.6 | is developed the way it's focused and what it's trying to achieve and they have brought in a new leader |
| 1:30.3 | Kevin Roberts somebody has a remarkable background in leading public policy development as the chief |
| 1:37.9 | executive officer of the Texas Public Policy Foundation which is I think without a doubt the most |
| 1:43.4 | effective and most powerful of the state level conservative policy operations in the entire country. |
| 1:58.7 | Kevin thank you for joining me. Newt thanks so much for having me on I've been looking forward to this. |
| 2:04.1 | I was really intrigued when you and I chatted on the phone the other day with how much you are |
| 2:09.6 | dedicated to helping get America back on the right track. So you really have a background that's |
| 2:16.8 | interesting we both have PhDs in history. His PhD is in American history from the University of |
| 2:22.5 | Texas. My PhDs in European history from Tulane University we can be rivals academically although |
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