Editing GOPAC (section)

==History==
GOPAC was founded by [[Delaware]] Governor [[Pierre S. du Pont, IV]] in 1978 in "an effort to build a farm team of Republican officeholders who could then run for congress or higher state offices later".<ref name=corner /> On February 1, 2007, former [[Maryland]] Lieutenant Governor [[Michael S. Steele|Michael Steele]] became the chairman and served until his election as chairman of the [[Republican National Committee]] in January 2009. The current chairman of GOPAC is David Avella.<ref name=corner>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gopac.org/chairmans-corner/|title=Chairman's Corner|website=GOPAC|access-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref>

Others who have chaired GOPAC include former [[Oklahoma]] Governor [[Frank Keating]], former [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] Representative and [[United States Secretary of the Army|Secretary of the Army]] [[Howard Callaway|Bo Callaway]], [[California]] Representative [[David Dreier]], [[Arizona]] Representative [[John Shadegg]], former Oklahoma Representative [[J.C. Watts]], Gay Gaines, and former [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[Newt Gingrich]] of Georgia.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-long-march-of-newt-gingrich-part-five/ |title=The Long March of Newt Gingrich: Part Five |date=December 21, 2011 |website=Frontline |publisher=PBS |first=Sarah |last=Moughty |access-date=January 28, 2022 }}</ref>

Instructional tapes used to train aspiring Republican politicians from 1986 to 1994 were selected by the [[Library of Congress]] as a 2010 addition to the [[National Recording Registry]] for their influence in "shaping political discourse". The Library of Congress selects recordings annually that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/registry/nrpb-2010reg.html | title=The National Recording Registry 2010 | access-date=April 10, 2011 | publisher=Library of Congress}}</ref>