- Anti-Gulf War protests at Indiana University in 1991 prompted Vazsonyi -- a music professor there at the time -- to form a group called the Stand Up for America Alliance. Local Republicans drafted him to run for mayor of Bloomington, Indiana. He lost the election.
- Became a U.S. citizen in 1964.
- Concert pianist. At age 12, he made his debut at the Liszt Academy of Music.
- Director of the Virginia-based Center for the American Founding
- Fled Soviet-occupied Hungary with his mother and brother in 1956 by crossing on foot through the mountains into Austria.
- Op-ed columnist for the Washington Times and nationally syndicated through Scripps Howard News Service.
- Opposed the idea of a Constitutional amendment permitting naturalized (as opposed to natural born) citizens to serve as U.S. president.
- Presented with the Officers' Cross of the Order of the Republic of Hungary in 2001.
- Son Nicholas is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina. He directed Vazsonyi's "Klassix-13" TV series.
- Taught master classes in piano at Harvard, Yale and the New England Conservatory of Music.
- Though embraced by conservatives, Vazsonyi rejected the label: "There is nothing conservative about the principles of the American founding. It was then and it remains now the most forward-looking political philosophy ever devised."
- Influenced by economists Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek, Vazsonyi developed a political philosophy based on what he saw as the essential principles of the Constitution and Anglo-American legal tradition. In his book "America's 30 Years War: Who Is Winning?", he outlined "the Four Points of the Compass:" the rule of law, equality before the law (individual rights), the security of property, and a common American identity. He argued that these "Four Points" are slowly being replaced by socialism in the form of government-mandated quotas and group-rights, redistribution of property, and multiculturalism.
- Father of Nicholas Vazsonyi.
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