Editing Clare Boothe Luce (section)

===Political life after office===

After [[Fidel Castro]] led a revolution in Cuba in 1959, Luce and her husband began to sponsor anticommunist groups. This support included funding Cuban exiles in commando speedboat raids against Cuba in the early 1960s.<ref>[[Anthony Summers|Summers, Anthony]]. ''Not in Your Lifetime'', (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1998), p. 322. {{ISBN|1-56924-739-0}}</ref><ref>Fonzi, Gaeton. ''The Last Investigation'', (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993), pp. 53–54. {{ISBN|1-56025-052-6}}</ref> Luce's continuing anticommunism as well as her advocacy of conservatism led her to support Senator [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]] as the Republican candidate for president in 1964. She also considered but rejected a candidacy for the [[United States Senate]] from New York on the [[Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative party]] ticket. That same year, which also saw the political emergence of future friend [[Ronald Reagan]], marked the voluntary end of Henry Luce's tenure as editor-in-chief of ''Time''. The Luces retired together, establishing a winter home in Arizona and planning a final move to Hawaii. Her husband, Henry, died in 1967 before that dream could be realized, but she went ahead with construction of a luxurious beach house in Honolulu, and, for some years, she led an active life in Hawaii high society.

In 1973, President [[Richard Nixon]] named her to the [[President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board]] (PFIAB). She remained on the board until President [[Jimmy Carter]] succeeded President [[Gerald Ford]] in 1977. By then, she had put down roots in Washington, D.C., that would become permanent in her last years. In 1979, she was the first woman to be awarded the [[Sylvanus Thayer Award]] by the [[United States Military Academy]] at West Point.

President Reagan reappointed Luce to PFIAB. She served on the board until 1983.

In 1986, Luce was the recipient of the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#public-service}}</ref>