Word: birchers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience of over 100 included one voluble Bircher, who explained that he was there to keep Hall "as close to the truth as possible." "What do you have to say about FDR's remark that 'Some of my best friends are Communists'?", he demanded at one point...
...first was Marina Oswald; the last on the schedule was James Rowley, chief of the U.S. Secret Service. In between came Manhattan Lawyer Mark Lane, an Oswald apologist who contended that the assassination was a right-wing plot, and University of Illinois Classics Professor Revilo P. Oliver, a Bircher who charged that it was a Communist plot. From 552 witnesses in all, the Commission gathered millions of words of testimony. All of it will be published in 24 500-page volumes that are expected to be released this week...
...been called an "imperialist" and "the defender of the ancien régime." He has been accused of "whitewashing McCarthy" and "throttling civil liberties." A John Bircher? An editor of the National Review? Not at all. He is John P. Roche (as in coach), national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action...
...shocked beyond words that Senator Dominick in his convention speech opposing the anti-Bircher platform amendment failed to point out that he was using phony documentation. Not everyone knows that the New York Times was founded in 1851; therefore his "1765" Times "editorial" denouncing Patrick Henry as an "extremist" was a figment of Dominick's own dubious imagination. Such essentially deceitful tactics smack of McCarthy. What a frightful forecast of Goldwater campaign methods...
...first, and Nelson Rockefeller bounded up to the podium. The auditorium burst into a cacophony of catcalls, interrupted with chants of "We want Barry." Rocky gallantly persisted. "It is essential," he shouted, "that this convention repudiate here and now any doctrinaire militant minority, whether Communist, Ku Klux Klan or Bircher." The crowd booed. Chairman Thruston Morton of Kentucky angrily crashed down his gavel, but the noise dipped scarcely a decibel. Rocky snapped into the microphone: "It's still a free country, ladies and gentlemen...