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Americans for Victory over Terrorism | Claremont Institute

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Americans for Victory over Terrorism | Claremont Institute
-937 W. Foothill Blvd., Ste. E; Claremont, CA 91711 (909) 621-6825 | Fax: (909) 626-8724 | E-mail: info@claremont.org
Website: www.avot.org
[http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.avot.org - Mar. 02, 2008]
Claremont Institute: http://www.claremont.org/
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Founded in 2002 by a William Bennett-led group of neoconservatives and hardline nationalists to defend George W. Bush’s policies in the “war on terror,” Americans for Victory over Terrorism (AVOT) was one of a handful of pressure groups that sprung up in the wake of 9/11 to quell criticism of the Bush administration and promote its interventionist policies. Other like-minded groups have included the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, founded by former New York Times correspondent Clifford May, and a revived version of the Cold War-era Committee on the Present Danger, inaugurated in 2004 by a handful of neoconservative ideologues and their supporters (including May, James Woolsey, Midge Decter, Norman Podhoretz, and Sen. Joe Lieberman) with the aim of “protecting and expanding democracy by supporting policies aimed at winning the global war against terrorism and the movements and ideologies that drive it.”
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AVOT seems to have ceased most operations, using its website mainly to republish rightist articles from venues such as the Weekly Standard, the National Review Online, and the Wall Street Journal, and to shill for Bennett’s 2002 book Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism. Articles on AVOT’s home page include pieces whose titles give a clear picture of the group’s political leanings, such as “Head in the Sand Liberalism in the War on Terror,” “Saddam Hussein’s Support for Terror-Regardless of Senate Intel Committee Report,” and “Why Israel’s War is Our War.”
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Though it seems barely to be active as of fall 2006, AVOT now describes itself as a “project of the Claremont Institute,” a California-based group that says its goal is to ” restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.” Claremont lists Bennett as its “Washington Fellow.”
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Created “to defend America’s war on terrorism against those who would weaken the nation’s resolve and erode our commitment to end the international menace of terrorism,” AVOT advocated Bush’s pro-war policies “where [the support was] needed most-college campuses, seminar rooms, editorial pages, and other media outlets.”
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During its inaugural press conference, AVOT leaders announced that as part of the effort to combat the internal “threat” posed by dissidents of Bush’s war on terrorism, they had compiled a list of statements by professors, legislators, and writers that the group deemed objectionable-an effort that mirrored an earlier initiative to monitor war opponents by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a group founded by Lynne Cheney, the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, and Lieberman. Among those listed were Lewis Lapham, the longtime editor of Harper’s Magazine, former President Jimmy Carter, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), and novelist John Edgar Wideman.
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Frank Gaffney, the head of the hawkish Center for Security Policy and an AVOT founder, said at the press conference: “[We must] pay special attention to friends like Saudi Arabia and Egypt whose ongoing use of media are creating problems for our allies.” Any criticism of the administration’s conduct of the war, he added, could be “interpreted in such a way as to hurt national resolve . [and] embolden the enemy.”
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According to journalist Jim Lobe, AVOT was initially “funded primarily by Lawrence Kadish, chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition and a top donor to the Republican Party. Kadish, a real estate investor in New York and Florida, was cited by Mother Jones magazine as one of the country’s top individual donors, having given $532,000 to the GOP.”
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On its website, AVOT recommends visitors check out other groups including the pro-Israel Middle East Media Research Institute, founded by Hudson Institute senior fellow Meyrav Wurmser. …
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AVOT Senior Advisors
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See full size image See full size image See full size image  See full size image Jewish Policy Center * MEMRI: Middle East Media Research Institute * Center for Security Policy * Harry Walker Agency’s Terrorism Experts, etc., etc. |…served as President Reagan’s chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1981-1985) and Secretary of Education (1985-1988), and President Bush’s “drug czar” (1989-1990). He, his wife Elayne, and their two sons live in Maryland. | Center for Security Policy – advisory council member; Empower America – co-founder; LibertyWire – chairman “Past”: 1996 Lamar Alexander presidential campaign – national campaign chairman; William Kristol – chief of staff; Libby Legal Defense Trust – advisory committee member; National Endowment for the Humanities – chairman; Ronald Reagan administration – education secretary; U.S. Department of Education – secretary. Elayne Bennett – spouse; Robert S. Bennett – brother; Robert B. Barnett – attorney.
-William J Bennett 4 Laurel Pkwy; Chevy Chase, MD 20815-4213 [65+ / Elayne G Bennett, Joe G Bennett, Mary E Bennett]
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Lawrence Kadish
 <Lawrence Kadish, MD, of Scarsdale, Isadore Rosenfeld, MD, of Harrison, and J. Michael Divney of White Plains. | http://fedupusa.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/center-for-security-policy/ |  http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Kadish_Lawrence | Claremont Institute – director; Hudson Institute – trustee; Morris J. Amitay PC – lobby firm. Spouse: Susan. …lives and/or works in Old Westbury, NY.
-Lawrence Kadish 135 Jericho Tpke; Old Westbury, NY 11568-1508 (516) 334-9730 [65+ / Charles M Kadish, Michelle S Kadish]
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 ”…can be reached by phone at (909) 621-6825 or email at BKennedy@claremont.org.”
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Claremont Institute
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Chairman
Bruce C. Sanborn - President, Upland & Marsh [a tax-exempt private grantmaking organization.]
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Vice Chairman
Larry P. Arnn - President, Hillsdale College
 
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Edward Erler - Professor, California State University San Bernardino
  
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Joel H. Farkas – JF Companies
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Christopher Flannery - Professor, Azusa Pacific University
 Azusa, CA  91702 (719) 333-3563 | cflannery@apu.edu
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Thomas A. Fuentes – Senior Fellow, The Claremont Institute
 <Tom Fuentes: professional schmoozer, circumventer of open processes, and THUG – http://dissenttheblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/tom-fuentes-professional-schmoozer.html | Fuentes resides in Lake Forest with his wife Jolene and their three children.
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James E. Higgins – New Vernon Capital, LLC
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Harry V. Jaffa  – Professor Emeritus, Claremont Graduate School
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Lawrence Kadish – First Fiscal Fund Co. (see above)
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Brian T. Kennedy - President, the Claremont Institute (see above)
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Charles R. Kesler - Professor, Claremont McKenna College
  
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Thomas D. Klingenstein – Cohen, Klingenstein & Marks, Inc.
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Edwin C. Laird – Newport Beach, California
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Jeffrey B. Lewis – Newport Beach, California
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John Marini - Professor, University of Nevada at Reno
 http://mahg.ashland.edu/faculty/marini.html -W: 1664 North Virginia Street; Reno, NV  89557 (775) 682-7766 | marini@unr.nevada.edu
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Kenneth Petersen – Partner, Tax and Financial Group
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Peter W. Schramm – Executive Director, John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs
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W. Robert Stover – Westaff, Inc.
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Thomas G. West - Professor, University of Dallas
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Board of Advisors
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Roberta Green Ahmanson – Fieldstead & Co.
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Richard B. Cammack – President, Cammack and Associates
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Henrietta Fankhauser – Livermore, California
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Daniel J. Frederick – Wayzata, Minnesota
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Michael Maibach
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Donald E. Moe – Senior Vice President, The Irvine Company
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Gregory R. Palen – President, Palen/Kimball Company
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Thomas L. Phillips – Chairman, Phillips International, Inc.
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Pat Sajak
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Johnny Zamrzla
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“In Memoriam”
Carl Schafer
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Thomas B. Silver
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Staff and Fellows
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Officers
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Brian T. Kennedy, President (see above)
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Skip Seagraves, Vice President, Institutional Advancement
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Daniel C. Palm, Secretary
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Distinguished Fellows
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Harry V. Jaffa (see above)
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William J. Bennett - Washington Fellow (see above)
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Senior Fellows
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Ken Masugi
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Institute Fellows
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Program Staff
Robert Gransden, Director of Development
John B. Kienker, Managing Editor, Claremont Review of Books
Seth Leibsohn, Fellow, Washington Office
Ryan Williams, Director of Special Projects
Kathleen Arnn, Associate Editor, Claremont Review of Books
William Voegeli, Contributing Editor, Claremont Review of Books
Joseph Tartakovsky, Contributing Editor, Claremont Review of Books
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Sandra Dirks, Operations
Jeanette Jaime, Operations Manager
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