Howard Phillips of the Conservative Caucus :(

[Cowlesy]

A tweet from Ben Domenech:

Ben Domenech ‏@bdomenech 1h
Howard Phillips has passed away.



From Howard's son Sam's Public posting on Facebook from yesterday, that Congressman Steve Stockman had tweeted out.


UPDATE ON DAD:

Dear friends,

I would ask you to remember my beloved Dad in your prayers in a special way today. He is in his final stages and is not expected to survive beyond the next few days.

When we received his official diagnosis of Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) and Alzheimers just two years ago we never could have been prepared for the disturbingly rapid deterioration he would undergo. The deadly combination of these two powerful diseases is more than any man can long withstand, even a man as tenacious and sharp as my father. Dad had been such an intelligent and charming man, that he managed to mask his condition from family and friends for a long period before we were able to intellectually and emotionally come to grips with the medical reality of what was happening. Even in recent months as his condition greatly worsened, when visitors dropped by Dad would often surprise us with his ability to “rise to the occasion” and engage with charm those around him for short periods of time.

We ask for God’s mercy and blessing that Dad might feel comfort and deep abiding peace during these precious final moments, and, most importantly, that he might experience joy eternal afterwards.

St. Joseph, patron saint of the dying and for a holy death, ora pro nobis.


So it's unconfirmed, but sounds like one of the authentic conservative warriors has passed on.

Howard interviewing Ron Paul (one of many times):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_suZvyB69YM


The Conservative Caucus: http://www.conservativeusa.org

[TaftFan]

This is sad.

I corresponded with the guy who runs it a while back. They had stopped production and requested that they upload the rest or some of their episodes on youtube. He was unable to because they were on cassette and he didn't have the time to go through the process. Their last video was an upload of an interview with Steve Stockman but it was taken down ahead of his campaign.

edit-I did a short write up on it. http://libertycircle.blogspot.com/2013/04/howard-phillips-founder-of-constitution.html

[TaftFan]

http://libertycircle.blogspot.com/2013/04/howard-phillips-founder-of-constitution.html

Great defender of liberty, I hope he pulls through.

[Smart3]

May he be remembered.

[Matt Collins]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt7WcgdZ0fo

[Matt Collins]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzkIYjDUub0

[Sola_Fide]

He was one of those dreaded Reconstructionists that people around here say we need to be "concerned" about.

[sailingaway]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_suZvyB69YM

from Cowlesy's post

I am really sorry to learn this.


We ask for God’s mercy and blessing that Dad might feel comfort and deep abiding peace during these precious final moments, and, most importantly, that he might experience joy eternal afterwards.

St. Joseph, patron saint of the dying and for a holy death, ora pro nobis.

[Cowlesy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzkIYjDUub0

He was going against the tide before it was popularly known a tide even existed.

Great clip, and in 2011 probably close to before when he really became ill.

[Cowlesy]

Now confirmed.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/21/political-activist-phillips-dies/


Howard Phillips was a magnificent anomaly in the worlds of politics and personal life.

During his 72 years, he went from being a Harvard-educated, unsuccessful Jewish Democratic candidate for public office to an evangelical Protestant Republican who founded the Conservative Caucus and led a decades-long crusade to end the government funding of the left that was taking place under GOP and Democratic administrations alike.

When President Nixon named him to head the federal Office of Economic Opportunity, the brainchild of Lyndon B. Jonson’s 1964 War on Poverty, and then asked Congress for more OEO money, Howie Phillips left, slamming the White House door behind him, citing principles over politics.

“The Nixon White House betrayed Howie after it installed him to close down OEO and then under political pressure decided to fold it into the Health and Human Services Administration while also retaining the left-wing Legal Services Corp.,” said former Phillips Chief of Staff Jay Parker.

In 1974, Mr. Phillips also left the GOP, fed up with its continuing failure to carry out anything resembling policies comporting with Mr. Phillips’ understanding of philosophical conservatism.

His love for his wife and six children was always on display, even if he at times had trouble remembering all the children’s names.

“One of my fondest memories of Howie would be when my son Ian and his daughter Alexandra sang in the Gonzaga College High School-Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School spring musical in their senior year,” recalled family friend Millie B. Hallow. “Howard, his wife, Peggy, my husband and I made all the performances and sat together for all of them. There was always an assortment of Phillips children with us in the seats, and Howard always fumbled on the names, including the daughter that was on the stage. Peggy was quietly indulgent.”

Mr. Phillips had no trouble remembering what he saw as the transgressions of the left.

“In the 1970s, Howie and other conservative leaders like Paul Weyrich, Ed Feulner, Morton Blackwell, Terry Dolan and Ron Godwin began meeting for breakfast at my home every Wednesday till the mid-1980s — the beginning of Hillary’s ‘vast right-wing conspiracy,’” said Richard Viguerie, an early founder of the conservative movement.

“By the early 1970s, no national conservative was more ideologically pure than Howie Phillips,” said Mr. Viguerie. “He was our true north, insisting that we never deviate from our principles.”

But Mr. Phillips’ stubborn adherence to principles was also his undoing as measured by electoral impact and public visibility. He helped found the U.S. Taxpayers Party, which morphed into the Constitution Party. Like others before him, Mr. Phillips’ conversion from major to third-party leadership made his criticisms of what was no longer his own party less newsworthy — and for some, less relevant.

He ran three times for president as a third-party candidate, never winning more than half a percent of the vote.

“From his early service in the Nixon administration, where he tried to undo the Great Society almost single-handedly, to his later quixotic runs for the presidency of the United States, Howie always marched tall and straight to his set of principles,” said former Heritage Foundation President Edwin J. Feulner. “Most of these principles were conservative, some were a bit quirky, but Howie always believed and always led.”

Until what his family described as his “peaceful” death in bed at home April 20, Mr. Phillips spent most of his 72 years tall and straight.

[Sola_Fide]

Now confirmed.

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/21/political-activist-phillips-dies/

Oh, they labeled him "quixotic". He must have been good.

[TaftFan]

bump

[compromise]

A great leader of the conservative movement, sad to see him go.

[TaftFan]

Chuck Baldwin:


My dear friend Howard Phillips passed away this past Saturday. He was one of my heroes and one of the most brilliant men I have ever known. He forgot more about government and history than most of us will ever learn. He was a graduate of Harvard. He was the head of two federal agencies in the Nixon White House. Most people don't realize that he was the principal founder of what became known as the "Religious Right." He also inspired Jerry Falwell to start the Moral Majority. He was the founder of the Constitution Party and chairman of the Conservative Caucus. America lost an ardent defender of liberty, and I lost a good friend. The family has asked me to preach Howard's funeral. I don't know the exact day yet. When I know, I will post it here on my Facebook wall. The funeral will take place at the McLean Bible Church in Tysons Corner, Virginia. I'm sure going to miss my friend.

[TaftFan]

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[KurtBoyer25L]

Also don't forget the beautiful bastard invented Nintendo.