Original sentence: Baroody raised money for AEA to expand its financial base beyond the business leaders on the board.Baroody was executive vice president from 1954 to 1962 and president from 1962 to 1978.The elder Baroody made a concerted effort to recruit neoconservatives who had supported the New Deal and Great Society but had become disaffected by what they perceived as the failure of the welfare state.This also included Cold War hawks who rejected George McGovern's peace agenda
Edited sentence: Baroody began to publicize and distribute AEA's publications effectively.He also raised money for AEA, expanding its financial base beyond the business leaders on the board.The elder Baroody made a concerted effort to recruit neoconservatives (Democrats and urban liberals who had supported the New Deal and Great Society but had become disaffected by what they perceived as the failure of the welfare state, as articulated in the pages of journals like The Public Interest, and Cold War hawks who rejected George McGovern's peace agenda).Under Baroody's leadership (as executive vice president from 1954 to 1962 and as president from 1962 to 1978), AEA developed as a prototypical Washington think tank, took the institutional shape it has today, and expanded its influence and intellectual heft