Devine Wisdom, Informed by Reagan

For National Review today, Neal B. Freeman salutes Roger Ream, president of the Fund for American Studies (for which I was recently a Novak Fellow). I have enjoyed Roger’s company over the past few years, and I second Neal’s praise of him as “one of the few CEOs who, manifestly, has left his board begging for more,” and as one worthy of the legacy of conservative luminary John Von Kannon, after whom the award Roger received is named.

This is a good opportunity to praise Roger’s TFAS colleague Donald Devine as well. I have had the singular privilege and unique pleasure of getting to know Don over the past few years. He has had a long career in the conservative movement as a leading Frank Meyer fusionist. Once an academic, he served as the director of Ronald Reagan’s Office of Personnel Management, where his efforts to shrink government earned him the title “Reagan’s Terrible Swift Sword of the Civil Service” from the Washington Post.

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For National Review today, Neal B. Freeman salutes Roger Ream, president of the Fund for American Studies (for which I was recently a Novak Fellow). I have enjoyed Roger’s company over the past few years, and I second Neal’s praise of him as “one of the few CEOs who, manifestly, has left his board begging for more,” and as one worthy of the legacy of conservative luminary John Von Kannon, after whom the award Roger received is named.

This is a good opportunity to praise Roger’s TFAS colleague Donald Devine as well. I have had the singular privilege and unique pleasure of getting to know Don over the past few years. He has had a long career in the conservative movement as a leading Frank Meyer fusionist. Once an academic, he served as the director of Ronald Reagan’s Office of Personnel Management, where his efforts to shrink government earned him the title “Reagan’s Terrible Swift Sword of the Civil Service” from the Washington Post.