On immigration policy he has sought the advice of Kris Kobach, secretary of state of Kansas, and the guidingforce behind controversial laws in Alabama and Arizona cracking down on illegal immigrants.
The guidingforce behind the museum and the gift made Wednesday is Ms. Walton, 61 years old, a well-known player in the art world who conceived the museum six years ago and has spent lavishly to build up its collection from scratch.
For Mr Jacques (the last editor of a defunct British magazine called Marxism Today), the Communist Party is a benign force, guiding the country through its spectacular boom while avoiding the collapse that afflicted the Soviet Union.
The BUR force construct had been developed rather hastily, without a guiding national security strategy and in response to the need to achieve a peace dividend.