For the Young Americans for Freedom, it’s been a long road, historically if not geographically, from Sharon, Connecticut to Boston, where the organization held its Eleventh National Convention last week.
Founded in I960 at the Connecticut estate of the Buckley family, YAF was forced to weather the storms of the Goldwater debacle, the Vietnam War, campus protests, and the Nixon betrayal before it arrived at last in the Promised Land of the Reagan Administration. In liberal Massachusetts, YAFers young and not so young came together to hear from old idols, to cheer on Administration conservatives, and to chart the organization’s own course by electing National Chairman James Lacy to a new two-year term and adopting a platform for the Eighties.
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