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...critical political activist even suggests that the country's conservative shift--if it can still be called that--has actually hurt John Birch. "They represent the extreme right of the past. People identify with the Moral Majority more so than the John Birch Society. I actually think the fact that the new right has become a significant movement has hurt them...
...first turning point in the group's fortunes occurred in 1964 at the Republican National Convention, when Nelson Rockefeller appeared on coast-to-coast television to accuse the John Birch Society of being both Nazi and Communist sympathizers...
McManus says repeatedly that the John Birch Society has been "victimized" by that and other incidents. That may be so. A negative media blitz against the Society escalated just after it began to establish a sense of legitimacy the public had never before allowed. Since then, the Society has tried to rebuild itself by softening some of its earlier stances while still maintaining that a decentralized powerless national government will cure society's ills...
Founded in 1958 by Belmont resident Robert Welch--a native North Carolinian and part owner of the Welch Candy Company which produces Sugar Daddy and Sugar Babies--the Society was named for John Birch, an army intelligence officer killed by communists in China just after World...
...Robert Welch decided to form an information service for the American people. John Birch is an educational institution," McManus says. "We preach less government, more responsibility and, with God's help, a better world to live in. We are therefore opposed to communism, but we are just as much opposed to collectivism." McManus defines collectivism to be "big government, small people...socialism...