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...meeting of the Young Republican Club two weeks ago, for example, Nixon called for an anti-John Birch Society resolution; he was frankly and unapologetically rebuffed. Having spent many years in the more moderate climate of Washington, Nixon may over-estimate the Society's un-attractiveness to his fellow-Californians; but the contempt the young conservatives showed for the wishes of their party's titular leader indicates more than that there are a lot of Birchsymps among them...
Certainly organizations such as the Birch Society are strong in the State. California, the home of all kinds of moral and intellectual extremists (health-food-addicts, Rosicrucians, nudists and so on), harbors an enormous political lunatic fringe as well. It should be remembered that the Society first received national publicity when it was disclosed that its members included several California congressmen and the publisher of the right-wing Los Angeles Times (now the city's only morning newspaper). And an article published late last year in the Nation reported that the city's regular Republican machine was heavily infiltrated with...
...Nixon's opponents in the primary will be an extreme rightist (though not a Birch member) named Joseph C. Shell, now a Los Angeles Assemblyman. Shell is far from the stereotype of rabid radical--he is an attractive ex-fullback at U.S.C., still young, still blond--and he is well-financed since he married an oilman's daughter...
...California, Republicans have no effective state organization, take their ideological differences seriously, and tend to feud like Democrats. Last week Dick Nixon was censured by Los Angeles Young Republicans for his demand that Republicans resign from the ultraconservative John Birch Society. In trying to defeat Democratic Governor Pat Brown, Nixon must build his own organization, win votes from thousands of registered Democrats. But, like Incumbent Republican Senator Tom Kuchel, he is given a better-than-even chance...
After the movie, Robertson directed a question period, during which he asserted that he did not know much about the John Birch Society but considered its portrayal of former President Eisenhower as a Communist outrageous. But, he stated that the Society was "on the whole a good thing," and recommended the reading of Robert Welch's One Hundred Steps to Truth...