After the War it was determined that the key was alteration in the teaching and narrative of American history. Noted and respected historians like Charles and Mary Beard were approached, but they rejected the foundation’s overtures.

The Guggenheim Foundation on the other hand agreed to supply fellowships to hand-picked historians who began to write history with a new slant and delusive perspective. The new texts and books were quickly picked up by schools who in turn received payoffs from the Guggenheim and Carnegie foundations.

The American Historical Association was captured by Foundation money and in 1934, a report was published under its auspices which concluded that the day of the individual in the United States had come to an end and that the future would be characterized, inevitably, by some form of collectivism and an increase in the authority of the State.

The Reece Report itself revealed, ‘the Committee shed light on the big foundations’ promotion of empiricism, centralized team research, big universities over small colleges, moral relativism, internationalism, and social engineering. [See Tax-Exempt Foundations: Hearings, 83rd Congress, 2nd Session, 1954 – links are now dead

With the arrival of the foundation’s hand picked puppet President Franklin Roosevelt, the years 1933-1936, marked a change which was so drastic as to constitute a “revolution”. The minutes reveal conclusively that the responsibility for the economic welfare of the American people had been transferred heavily to the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.