To commemorate the 17th anniversary of 9/11, Paul Swenson said he planned to go to one of the 60 healing fields he helped organize, then quietly observe the impact.
Indeed, the history of subsidized conservative idea factories stretches back at least to the New Deal, when American business leaders quietly organized a well-funded, but somewhat hidden public-relations campaign against Franklin Roosevelt.
Under the influence of the City Beautiful movement, Mr. Raskob quietly organized a group to buy up properties in Wilmington, then rallied the public behind the idea of a new building for both the city and New Castle County governments.
After landing in Washington as the deputy to Labor Secretary George P. Shultz in 1969, he remained all but unknown, even to organized labor, as he quietly ran the department's day-to-day affairs for more than a year.
My sense is that the Massacre took place in a quite crowded square, full of unruly, upset people, and that the Tea Party was organized and rolled out quietly, with perhaps a fair number of people watching approvingly from a short distance away.
The tactics are work with the dissidents in Cuba, talk quietly, get organized.
Since 1965, the pickets had been very controlled: women wore skirts and men wore suits and ties, and all marched quietly in organized lines.
If Dan Cathy were as savvy a businessman as I assume he considers himself to be, he probably would have kept his opinion to himself and continued to quietly bankroll organized bigotry while raking in the dough.
Still, the fight for Iowa's six electoral votes will undoubtedly play out on the ground, where Mr. Obama's campaign has spent months quietly organizing supporters.
The program has six parts: simplify the world; build self-control; manage meltdowns; sit quietly; organize daily life; and move on.
