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Our Founders sacrificed their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to secure the freedoms Americans enjoy today, but they understood that the solemn duty of preserving them would ultimately rest on future generations.
Members of our Heritage Legacy Society—modern-day patriots who have remembered Heritage in their wills, trusts, or other planned gifts—are helping safeguard our Founders’ vision for America so that our children and grandchildren can flourish in a nation built on freedom, opportunity, and civil society.
Understanding America’s past is essential to defending its future. Few people understand that better than Heritage member David Winston Caldwell. Named for Winston Churchill and President Dwight David Eisenhower, David has spent his life exemplifying principles worthy of his name’s sakes.
With tenacity, grit, and hard work, he translated his passion for bowling into founding Gran Prix Bowling Supply with his wife Patricia in 1981. Their business is now one of America’s largest distributors of bowling supplies.
David and Patricia’s greatest passion, however, is preserving America’s founding ideals through educating others about its history.
David once said The Heritage Foundation’s “biggest impact is in (its) name … preserving this country’s great heritage.”
In 2021, Heritage presented David and Patricia with the George Washington Generations Yet Unborn Award in recognition of their vision to preserve America’s Founding principles for future generations.
Through their ardent support of the Feulner Institute and their direct influence in making historical education a beloved cornerstone of Heritage programming, David and Patricia Caldwell have established themselves as leaders among the Heritage family and the conservative movement.
Mike Gonzalez, the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum senior fellow, is a powerhouse at The Heritage Foundation. A widely respected writer, speaker, and scholar, Gonzalez produces work that covers a multitude of topics including critical race theory, identity politics, diversity, multiculturalism, assimilation, and nationalism, as well as foreign policy in general.
Gonzalez, who joined Heritage in 2009 after a long career in journalism—often reporting from Europe, Asia, and Latin American—and a stint in the George W. Bush administration, has become well known through his extensive writing and public appearances for his willingness to challenge destructive ideologies that undermine American principles.
His third book, “BLM: A New Marxist Revolution,” lays bare the ideology behind the Black Lives Matter organization and exposes the radical agenda of its founders.
With Gonzalez, you have an uncompromising defender of a free and just America.
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