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...potential." About a million people inhabit its 9304 square miles; only six states are smaller. The state motto, which by a Supreme Court decision may be taped over on license plates by citizens who object, is "Live Free or Die." State flower: purple lilac; bird: purple finch; tree: white birch. Populated by Indians before the Europeans arrived in the 1600s, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1788 and the one that made that document legal. A fifth of the state consists of public parklands, which, along with 17 miles of coastline, attract half...
...John Birch Society owns three building sin Belmont, two of them devoted entirely to the Birch publishing empire. In addition to a monthly Birch Society Bulletin, which 80-years-old Welch still writes, and a weekly reactionary news analysis magazine called The Review of the News, the society publishes hundreds of pamphlets like "McCarthy: The Truth, the Smear and the Lesson." and "They killed the President : Lee Harvey Oswald Wasn't Alone," (Surprise, he had help from Communists). The society also runs Western Island Press, publishers of conservative tracts like "Teddy Bare: The Last of the Kennedy Clan," an attack...
However, Republicans fought the society from the start. Former vice president and future unsuccessful California gubernatorial candidate Richard M. Nixon said on the Jack Parr Show in February 1962, that politicians "who accept or seek support of organizations like the John Birch Society are not serving America." William F. Buckley Jr., in the National Review, revealed Welch's isolation in the conservative movement, calling The Politician " paranoid and unpatriotic drivel...
...John Birch Society will never work into the mainstream, never become acceptable. Defeat has been welded on their faces as clearly as anti-Communism has been grafted into their hearts. They know that the public's conception of their organization is a lunatic fringe of the right wingers. No matter how moderate the society s stands on specific issues, that image will remain...
...sense, though, the John Birch Society likes it that way. its public image allows the society the smugness available only to someone who knows he will never have to test his theories, never have to put his hide on the line. The folks at 395 Concord Ave. revel in their ideological purity, knowing-like the Spartacus Youth League and the Revolutionary Communist Party know-that they will never have any power, so they will never have to take responsibility. They're untouchable...