Donald Devine is senior scholar at The Fund for American Studies. Devine served as President Ronald Reagan’s civil service director during the president's first term in office. During that time, the Washington Post labeled him “Reagan’s Terrible Swift Sword of the Civil Service” for cutting bureaucrats and reducing billions in spending. Today, Devine travels the country teaching Constitutional Leadership Seminars to young people and speaking to groups about reviving the Constitution and saving the marriage between libertarianism and traditionalism. Before and after his government service...
Overview
Ronald Reagan official and scholar Donald Devine explains how the ideology dominating American politics has so corrupted the modern mindset that it has obscured the secret of America’s success: the way its history and institutions harmonized freedom and tradition, and the need to recover that history and learn from it.This lecture will help us reclaim freedom, tradition and constitution, by recovering its origins.
