Edwin Feulner is not a household name in Washington, but he occupies a prominent place in the capital’s political pantheon. Thirty years ago, he founded a small think tank with nine employees. Today, The Heritage Foundation has 200 staffers and stands in the first rank of Washington think tanks, along with the Brookings Institution, the American Enterprise Institute and the Cato Institute.
“The Heritage Foundation’s emergence on the think tank scene in 1974 changed the way all think tanks in Washington do business, and Ed Feulner deserves much credit for the change,” said Karlyn Bowman, a senior fellow at AEI. “Think tanks were pretty sleepy places until this scrappy, energetic new organization arrived.”
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