When the Republican administration of President Reagan took office in 1980, one think tank alone-the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) -had 30 scholars recruited into government, while Jean Kirkpatrick, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, became US ambassador to the United Nations.
八○年代共和黨雷根總統上台時，在「美國企業研究所」（AEI）一個智庫就網羅了三十位學者加入政府團隊；「傳統基金會」的資深研究員 Jean Kirkpatrick 被延攬出任美國駐聯合國大使，表現出色，更為世人所熟知。