Wrapped in the Flag (47 page)

9
.   Quotes in Mabley’s articles: Welch,
The Politician
, 278; Griffin,
The Life and Words of Robert Welch
, 240.

10
. Mabley, “Strange Threat to Democracy.”

11
. Welch outlines attacks: Welch,
The Politician
, ix–xi.

12
. Laurene Conner, “How the Conners Became Involved in the John Birch Society,” remarks to the Council Meeting of the John Birch Society, Appleton, WI, October 14, 1995.

13
. “Stillwell Connor [our name was often misspelled as ‘Connor’] Discusses the John Birch Society,” April 3, 1961, NBC Universal Archives, clip 5112482696-s01,
http://www.nbcuniversalarchives.com
.

14
. “The Birch-Barkers,”
Time
, April 14, 1961; “Thunder Against the Right,”
Time
, November 24, 1961.

15
. “Confidential Classified Report of the District Intelligence Office.”

16
. Robert Welch, “False Leadership: William F. Buckley and the New World Order,” in
The Historical Significance of Robert Welch
(Appleton, WI: John Birch Society, 1993), 147–48.

17
. John Birch Society,
Responsible Leadership through the John Birch Society
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, c. 1965), 17.

1
.   Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, September 1960, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1960
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1961), 2.

2
.   G. Edward Griffin,
The Life and Words of Robert Welch: Founder of the John Birch Society
(Thousand Oaks, CA: American Media, 1975), 27–46.

3
.   Robert Welch,
The Blue Book of the John Birch Society
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1961), 110.

4
.   Barry Goldwater,
The Conscience of a Conservative
(LaVergne, TN: Bottom of the Hill Publishing, 2010, orig. 1960).

5
.   Welch,
The Blue Book
, 119–20.

6
.   Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, September 1960, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1960
, 7.

7
.   Rick Perlstein,
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
(New York: Nation Books, 2001), 82–95.

8
.   Ibid., 94–95.

9
.   Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, September 1960, 7.

10
. Ibid., 9.

11
. Ibid., 13.

12
. 1960 election results:
AnythingPolitics
,
http://www.uselections.org
.

13
.
David Greenberg, “Was Nixon Robbed? The Legend of the Stolen 1960 Presidential Election,”
Slate.com
, October 16, 2000.

14
. Perlstein,
Before the Storm
, 140.

15
. Jonathan M. Schoenwald,
A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 62.

16
. Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, February 1961, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1961
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1962), 12.

17
. Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, March 1961, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1961
, 21.

18
. Robert Welch,
The Politician
(Belmont, MA: Belmont Publishing, 1963), x–xi.

19
. Ibid., xi.

20
. “The John Birch Society: Patriotic or Irresponsible, It Is Subject of Controversy,”
Life
, May 12, 1961.

21
. Ibid.

22
. “The Americanists,”
Time
, March 10, 1961.

23
. “Beware the Comsymps,”
Time
, April 21, 1961.

24
. “Charges Reds Began Attack on Birch Group,”
Chicago Tribune
, April 2, 1961.

25
. “Birch Society Leaders Propose 3d Party Here,”
Chicago Tribune
, April 14, 1962.

26
. John D. Morris, “Birch Unit Pushes Drive on Warren,”
New York Times
, April 1, 1961, front page.

27
. “John Birch Fantasies,” editorial,
New York Times
, April 22, 1961.

28
. “The Harmless Ones,”
Time
, August 11, 1961.

29
. Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, April 1961, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1961
, 12–13.

30
. Perlstein,
Before the Storm
, 110.

31
. Robert Welch on
Meet the Press
, transcript, May 21, 1961,
http://www.scribd.com
.

32
. Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, February 1962, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1962
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1963), 5–10.

33
. Ibid., 6–7.

34
. Ibid., 7.

35
. Ibid., 10.

36
. Griffin,
The Life and Words of Robert Welch
, 307.

37
. Ibid., 306.

38
. “Unitarian Church Sets Talk by Birch Leader,”
Chicago Tribune
, February 25, 1962.

39
. Frank Hughes, “2,000 Attend Birch Society Seminar Here,”
Chicago Tribune
, July 1, 1962.

1
.   “The Unhelpful Fringes: The Present-Day Radicals, Left or Right, Bring Us Neither Hope Nor Realism,”
Life
, May 12, 1961.

2
.   Philip Dodd, “Hint Pentagon to Reprimand Gen. Walker,”
Chicago Tribune
, June 10, 1961.

3
.   Jonathan M. Schoenwald,
A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 105.

4
.   Philip Dodd, “U.S. General Suspended in Birch Furor,”
Chicago Tribune
, April 18, 1961, front page.

5
.   Schoenwald,
A Time for Choosing
, 106.

6
.   Ibid., 101.

7
.   William F. Buckley Jr.,
Cruising Speed: A Documentary
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 112.

8
.  
John Howard Griffin,
Black Like Me
(San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2004, orig. 1961), 14.

9
.   Ibid., 123.

10
. Ibid., 131.

11
. “Black Like Me,”
Time
, March 28, 1961.

12
. Robert Welch,
The Blue Book of the John Birch Society
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1961), 29.

13
. “Civil Rights: The Little Rock School Integration Crisis,” Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum,
http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov
.

14
. Schoenwald,
A Time for Choosing
, 105.

15
. Robert Welch,
The Politician
(Belmont, MA: Belmont Publishing, 1963), 267.

16
. Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, January 1961, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1961
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1962), 16.

17
. Ibid., 12–13.

18
. Gregory L. Schneider,
The Conservative Century: From Reaction to Revolution
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), 85.

19
. Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, June 1961, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1961
, 5.

20
. John Wicklein, “Birch Society Will Offer $2,300 For Impeach-Warren Essays,”
New York Times
, August 5, 1961, front page.

21
. Ibid., 39.

22
. Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, June 1961, 3–5.

23
. Welch,
The Blue Book
, 97, 98.

24
. Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, August 1961, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1961
, 18.

1
.   “Keep Politics Out of Aid, Pope Pleads,”
Chicago Tribune
, July 15, 1961.

2
.   “Food for Peace,”
Chicago Tribune
, January 26, 1961.

3
.   Robert Welch,
The Blue Book of the John Birch Society
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1961), 31.

4
.   David A. Bosnich, “The Principle of Subsidiarity,”
Religion & Liberty
6, no. 4, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty,
http://www.acton.org
.

5
.   Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, January 1962, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1962
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1963), 16.

6
.   Stillwell John Conner, “The UN: A Study in Deception,”
American Opinion
, 1963, in Box 19, Folder 12, Norman Allderdice Collection, Hoover Institution Archives, 3.

7
.   Ibid., 4–5.

8
.   Ibid., 14.

9
.   Ibid., 16.

10
. “Red China Loses,”
Chicago Tribune
, December 19, 1961.

11
. Conner, “The UN,” 10.

12
. Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, January 1962, 17–18.

13
. Vincent Butler, “Rally Demands U.N. Assembly Shut Its Doors on Red China,”
Chicago Tribune
, September 22, 1961.

14
. Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, June 1962, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1962
, 1.

15
. Ibid., 1–8.

16
. Ronald Reagan, “Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine,” 1961,
YouTube.com
.

17
. Lack of care for indigent and elderly before Medicare: Rosemary Stevens, PhD, “Health Care in the Early 1960s,”
Health Care Financing Review
18, no. 2 (Winter 1996).

18
. Reagan on Kennedy: Quintard Taylor Jr., “The Rise and Fall of Liberalism,” History 101: Survey of the History of the United States,
http://faculty.washington.edu
.

19
. October 28, 1980, Carter-Reagan debate, Commission on Presidential Debates,
http://www.debates.org
.

20
. “1962: Reagan Warns that Medicare Will Lead to Socialism, Destruction of American Democracy,”
History Commons
,
http://www.historycommons.org
.

1
.   Sheldon Harnick, “The Merry Minuet,” 1958,
YouTube.com
.

2
.   “Russia Warns U.S. Against Cuba Attack,”
Chicago Tribune
, September 12, 1962.

3
.  
Robert Welch,
The Blue Book of the John Birch Society
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1961), 32, 33.

4
.   Ibid., 32.

5
.   John Hersey,
Hiroshima
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946).

6
.   “Cold War: A Brief History,” Atomic Archive,
http://www.atomicarchive.com
.

7
.  
Duck and Cover
, Archer Productions, 1951,
http://www.archive.org
.

8
.   John F. Kennedy, “A Message to You from the President,”
Life
, September 15, 1961.

9
.   “Shelter Skelter,”
Time
, September 1, 1961.

10
. “What You Should Know about the National Plan for Civil and Defense Mobilization,” Executive Office of the President, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, December 1958, 29;
A Secret Landscape: America’s Cold War Infrastructure
,
http://www.coldwar-c4i.net
.

11
. “Timeline,”
The Cuban Missile Crisis
, 1997,
http://library.thinkquest.org
.

12
. Bay of Pigs: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), 250–97.

13
. John F. Kennedy, “Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba,” October 22, 1962, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum,
http://www.jfklibrary.org
.

14
. Jack Raymond, “Big Force Masses to Blockage Cuba,”
New York Times
, October 23, 1962, front page.

15
. Michael Dobbs,
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
(New York: Knopf, 2008), 280.

16
. Schlesinger,
A Thousand Days
, 829–30.

17
. Barry Goldwater,
The Conscience of a Conservative
(LaVergne, TN: Bottom of the Hill Publishing, 2010, orig. 1960), 74.

18
. Ibid., 81.

19
. Welch,
The Blue Book
, 109–10.

20
. Ibid., 109.

21
. Ibid., 110.

22
. Goldwater,
The Conscience of a Conservative
, 80

23
. Ibid., 80–81.

24
. Ibid., 81.

25
. Ibid., 82.

26
. Ibid., 81.

27
. Constance Hayes, “Robert J. Morris Is Dead at 82; Crusader Against Communists,”
New York Times
, January 2, 1997.

28
. Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, February 1961, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for
1961
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1962), 12.

29
. “4,000 High School Seniors Win Illinois Scholarships,”
Chicago Tribune
, April 18, 1963.