Edwin Meese III
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Background (temp)
Meese came from a San Francisco Bay Area family. His father, Edwin Meese, Jr., was the long-term tax assessor of Alameda County, California.
The Honorable Edwin Meese III served on the Council for National Policy (CNP) Executive Committee in 1994 and as CNP President in 1996.
Meese was "distinguished fellow and holder of the Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy, the Heritage Foundation; former United States Attorney General; Counselor to the President, 1981-1985; former Chief of Staff and Senior Issues Advisor for the Reagan-Bush Committee; former president, Council for National Policy; former professor of law, University of San Diego; former vice president for administration, Rohr Industries. As Chairman of the Domestic Policy Council and the National Drug Policy Board, and as a member of the National Security Council, he played a key role in the development and execution of domestic and foreign policy. During the 1970s, Mr. Meese was Director of the Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Management and Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. He earlier served as Chief of Staff for then-Governor Reagan and was a local prosecutor in California. Mr. Meese is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute of United States Studies, University of London. He earned his B.A. from Yale University and his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
"During the Reagan Kitchen Cabinet, Joseph Coors and others from the Heritage Foundation received a letter of endorsement from White House Chief of Staff Ed Meese in which Meese promised Edward J. Feulner, Jr., the president of Heritage, that 'this Administration will cooperate fully with your efforts.' After leaving the Reagan Administration, Meese joined the staff of the Heritage Foundation."[2]
Affiliations
- Federalist Society, Co-founder
- George Mason University, Rector
- Heritage Foundation, Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy
- Hoover Institution, Fellow
- Council for National Policy
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