Obituary: Paul Weyrich, Co-Founder of Influential Think Tank

Paul M. Weyrich, 66, who co-founded the conservative Heritage Foundation and was credited with coining the term “moral majority” and bringing new ideas to the Republican party, died this week in Virginia, reports The Washington Post.

Mr. Weyrich’s Free Congress Foundation, the newspaper reports, was one of the earliest users of grass-roots direct-mail fund raising for conservative politicians and social causes.

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