Editing Committee on the Present Danger (section)

==Overview==
The committee first met in 1950, founded by [[Tracy Voorhees]], to promote the plans proposed in [[NSC 68]] by [[Paul Nitze]] and [[Dean Acheson]]. It lobbied the government directly and sought to influence [[public opinion]] through a publicity campaign, notably a weekly radio broadcast on the [[Mutual Broadcasting System]] throughout 1951.<ref name="Peddlers" /> This iteration was effectively disbanded after 1952, following the appointment of Voorhees and others to senior positions in the administration.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wells |first=Samuel F. |date=1979 |title=Sounding the Tocsin: NSC 68 and the Soviet Threat |journal=International Security |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=116–158 |doi=10.2307/2626746 |jstor=2626746 |s2cid=155072379 |issn=0162-2889}}</ref>

It was privately revived in March 1976 to try to influence the [[United States Presidential election, 1976|presidential candidates]] and their advisors.{{citation needed|date=September 2008}} After [[Jimmy Carter]] won the election, CPD went public again and spent the next four years lobbying, particularly against [[détente]] and the [[SALT II]] agreement. Its [[War Hawk|hawkish]] conclusions influenced the [[CIA]]'s future reporting on the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] threat.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}} This iteration of the CPD provided 33 officials to the [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Ronald Reagan administration]], plus Reagan himself.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Shribman |first1=David |last2=Times |first2=Special To the New York |date=November 23, 1981 |title=Group Goes from Exile to Influence |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/23/us/group-goes-from-exile-to-influence.html |access-date=May 1, 2020 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>