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Lead among his roster of clients was the National Rifle Association, where in 1976 he became executive director. The organization was losing millions of dollars every year in the mid-1970s, and Billings was brought on to make it financially solvent once again.
To this day Billings lists his brief work with the NRA, which turned around its financial statement, as his most rewarding achievement.
From their point of view, Billings says, “it was clear I wasn’t one of them.” But as far as he was concerned, he had no qualms in the two years he spent there.
From the NRA, Billings headed directly to the other end of the political spectrum, becoming president of the Mother Earth News. The publication, which contains articles on sustainable energy and raising crops and livestock, is what he calls “a marvelous counterculture magazine.”
But all that, Billings now insists, is “ancient history.”