Soon after the Richmond address, Buchanan and his trusted team organized a larger gathering in Los Angeles that included members of Governor Reagan’s inside circle, hoping to build relationships that would carry forward the grand strategy over the next forty years and more. The gathering included, alongside Buchanan’s scholarly allies and Richard Larry of Scaife, four members of Reagan’s team, among them his most trusted adviser and chief of staff, Edwin Meese III. “We are living on borrowed time,” the Virginia economist informed the assembled men, because America was “changing rapidly.”
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