Wrapped in the Flag (49 page)

13
. Karen Armstrong,
The Battle For God: A History of Fundamentalism
(New York: Ballantine, 2000), 311–13.

14
. Ibid., 312.

15
. Max Blumenthal,
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party
(New York: Nation Books, 2010), 19.

16
. Walter Olson, “Invitation to a Stoning: Getting Cozy with Theocrats,”
Reason
, November 1998,
http://www.reason.com/archives
. Also, Jeff Sharlet,
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
(New York: Harper Perennial, 2009), 347–51.

17
. Olson, “Invitation to a Stoning.”

18
. Blumenthal,
Republican Gomorrah
, 19.

19
. Ibid., 26–27.

20
.
Frank Schaeffer,
Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (Or Almost All) of It Back
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2007), 300.

1
.   Glenn Garvin, “He Was Right,”
Reason
, March 2002,
http://www.reason.com
.

2
.   Barry Goldwater announcing his candidacy, January 3, 1964:
4President.org
.

3
.   Ayn Rand interview, “Gallery of Colorful People,” 1959, You Tube.com.

4
.   Gregory L. Schneider,
The Conservative Century: From Reaction to Revolution
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), 110–11.

5
.   Ibid., 111.

6
.   Ayn Rand,
Atlas Shrugged
(New York: Penguin Books, 1996), 1069.

7
.   “William Buckley on Ayn Rand &
Atlas Shrugged
,”
Charlie Rose
, from March 24, 2006,
YouTube.com
.

8
.   Robert Welch,
The Blue Book of the John Birch Society
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1961), 119–20.

9
.   William F. Buckley Jr., “Goldwater, the John Birch Society, and Me,”
Commentary
, March 2008,
http://www.commentarymagazine.com
.

10
. G. Edward Griffin,
The Life and Words of Robert Welch: Founder of the John Birch Society
(Thousand Oaks, CA: American Media, 1975), 307.

11
. Robert Alan Goldberg,
Barry Goldwater
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995), 138.

12
. Rick Perlstein,
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
(New York: Nation Books, 2009), 62–63.

13
. Ibid., 63.

14
. Ibid., 64.

15
. Goldberg,
Barry Goldwater
, 139.

16
. Perlstein,
Before the Storm
, 266–67.

17
. Goldberg,
Barry Goldwater
, 184.

18
. “The News from New Hampshire,”
Time
, March 20, 1964.

19
. John B. Judis,
William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999), 226–27.

20
. F. Clifton White with William J. Gill,
Suite 3505: The Story of the Draft Goldwater Movement
(New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1967), 89, 209, 257–60.

21
. Theodore H. White,
The Making of the President 1964
(New York: Harper, 2010), 144–45; Robert D. Novak,
The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington
(New York: Three Rivers Press, 2008), 107–8.

22
. “Thurmond to Bolt Democrats Today,”
New York Times
, September 16, 1964.

23
. Jeffrey Gettleman, “Final Word: My Father’s Name was James Strom Thurmond,”
New York Times
, December 19, 2003.

24
. “Amid the Disarray, a Phenomenon,”
Time
, April 24, 1964.

25
. “Deep in the Heart of It,”
Time
, May 15, 1964.

26
. “The Man on the Bandwagon,”
Time
, January 12, 1964.

27
. Perlstein,
Before the Storm
, 387–93.

28
. “Goldwater’s 1964 Acceptance Speech,”
WashingtonPost.com
.

29
. “Presidential Campaign Slogans,”
Presidents of the United States
,
http://www.presidentsusa.net
.

30
. “Presidential Commercials, 1964 Johnson vs. Goldwater,” Museum of the Moving Image:
The Living Room Candidate,
http://www.livingroomcandidate.org
.

31
. Goldberg,
Barry Goldwater
, 226.

32
. Ibid., 220.

33
. Larry Harnisch, “Ronald Reagan and ‘A Time for Choosing,’”
Daily Mirror
(UK), February 10, 2011,
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com
.

34
. Ronald Reagan, “A Time for Choosing,” October 27, 1964, National Center for Public Policy Research,
http://www.nationalcenter.org
.

35
. Goldberg,
Barry Goldwater
, 237.

36
. “1964 Presidential General Election Results,”
Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
,
http://www.uselectionatlas.org
.

37
. James Reston, “What Goldwater Lost,”
New York Times
, November 4, 1964.

38
. “Democrats Rout GOP,”
Dallas Morning News
, November 4, 1964; Theodore H. White, “Memo to a Future Historian,”
Life
, November 13, 1964.

39
. “Republicans: The Party Future,”
Time
, November 4, 1964.

40
. Geoffrey Kabaservice,
Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 98–118.

41
. In Perlstein,
Before the Storm
, 514–15.

42
. “Never Again,”
Time
, January 29, 1965.

43
. Goldberg,
Barry Goldwater
, 237.

44
. Robert Welch, “Reflections on the Elections,” supplement to
John Birch Society Bulletin
, December 1964, in
The White Book of the John Birch Society for 1964
(Belmont, MA: John Birch Society, 1965), 7.

45
. Ibid., 1.

46
. Ibid., 2.

47
. Ibid., 4.

48
. Ibid., 6.

49
. Robert Welch, “False Leadership: William F. Buckley and the New World Order,” in
The Historical Significance of Robert Welch
(Appleton, WI: John Birch Society, 1993), 171.

1
.   This quote has been attributed to Grace Slick, Robin Williams, and others.

2
.   Lou Cannon,
President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime
(New York: Public Affairs, 2000), 163.

3
.   Terry H. Anderson,
The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 144.

4
.   Harry Maurer,
Strange Ground: An Oral History of Americans in Vietnam 1945–1975
(New York: DaCapo Press, 1998), 133-135.

5
.   Ibid.

6
.   The “Great Society” was the collective term for Lyndon Johnson’s social agenda: Medicare, food stamps, Head Start, public broadcasting, environmental programs, and civil rights and fair housing legislation. See Joseph A. Califano Jr., “What Was Really Great about the Great Society,”
Washington Monthly
, October 1999,
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com
.

7
.   Anderson,
The Movement and the Sixties
, 183–86.

8
.   “President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Address to the Nation Announcing Steps To Limit the War in Vietnam and Reporting His Decision Not To Seek Reelection, March 31, 1968,” LBJ Presidential Library,
http://lbjlibrary.org
.

9
.   “Russia Hails Re-election of Johnson,”
Chicago
Tribune
, November 5, 1964.

10
. “Reflections,”
Chicago Tribune
, November 5, 1964.

11
. Walter Trohan, “Johnson Gets 61.4 Pct. of U.S. Popular Vote,”
Chicago Tribune
, November 5, 1964, front page.

12
. “The
John Birch Society: A Report,”
Chicago Tribune
, November 15, 1964.

13
. Ben H. Bagdikian, “In the Hearts of the Right, Goldwater Lives!,”
New York Times
, July 18, 1965.

14
. Donald Janson, “Birchers to Seek Offices ‘On Own,’”
New York Times
, March 27, 1966.

15
. Donald T. Critchlow,
The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 78–79.

16
. “The John Birch Society and the Conservative Movement—Part 1,” editorial,
National Review
, October 19, 1965.

17
. Ibid.

18
. “The John Birch Society and the Conservative Movement—Part 2,” editorial,
National Review
, October 19, 1965.

19
. Lisa McGirr,
Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 219.

20
. Ibid.

21
. “The Wallace Dilemma,”
Time
, August 2, 1968.

22
. Susanna McBee, “The Spoiler from the South,”
Life
, August 2, 1968.

23
. “Lake County, Indiana: ‘Microcosm of the Politics of Fear,’”
Life
, September 20, 1968.

24
. “Support from the Guts,”
Time
, March 1, 1968.

25
. Anderson,
The Movement and the Sixties
, 212.

26
. Ibid.

27
. Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, November 1968 (Belmont, MA: John Birch Society), 11.

28
. Ibid., 12.

29
. Dan T. Carter,
The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996), 343.

1
.   Stephan Lesher, “John Schmitz Is No George Wallace . . . but the American Party Loves Him Anyway,”
New York Times
, November 5, 1972.

2
.   Robert Welch,
John Birch Society Bulletin
, January 1969 (Belmont, MA: John Birch Society), 3–4.

3
.   Ibid., 6.

4
.   Ibid., 12.

5
.   Ibid., 16.

6
.   Ibid., 18–19.

7
.   Statistics on the Vietnam War: 15th Field Artillery website,
http://www.landscaper.net
.

8
.   “The My Lai Massacre,”
Time
, November 28, 1969.

9
.   Joseph Eszterhas, “The Massacre at Mylai,”
Life
, December 5, 1969.

10
. Barry Sadler, “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” top-40 hit in 1966, played extensively during the war in Vietnam.

11
. Terry H. Anderson,
The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 397.

12
. Ibid., 402.

13
. Donald T. Critchlow,
The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 105–7.

14
. Anderson,
The Movement and the Sixties
, 400.

15
. Robert Welch,
Bulletin of the John Birch Society
, March 1969 (Belmont, MA: John Birch Society), 9.

16
.
John Fund, “Out of Gear: Remembering John Schmitz, a Cheerful Extremist,” January 12, 2001, John G. Schmitz website,
http://www.johngschmitz.com/
; “John George Schmitz, Colonel, United States Marine Corps, Member of Congress,” Biographical Information, Arlington National Cemetery,
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net
.

17
. John G. Schmitz,
Stranger in the Arena: The Anatomy of an Amoral Decade, 1964–1974
(Santa Ana, CA: Rayline Printing, 1974), 11.

18
. Schmitz children: Gregg Olsen,
If Loving You Is Wrong: The Shocking True Story of Mary Kay Letourneau
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 25–29.

19
. Ronald Yates, “Senate Hopeful Far Right, Far Out, Far Behind,”
Chicago Tribune
, February 28, 1982.

20
. Robert Welch, “A Letter of Encouragement,”
The Historical Significance of Robert Welch
(Appleton, WI: John Birch Society, 1993), 109.

21
. Ibid., 110.

22
. Ibid., 125.

23
. Ibid., 109.

24
. “The Headless Horseman,”
Time
, August 14, 1972.

25
. Dan T. Carter,
The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996), 417–18.

26
. Ibid., 424.

27
. Maggie Riechers, “Racism to Redemption: The Path of George Wallace,”
Humanities
21, no. 2 (March/April 2000),
http://www.neh.gov
.

28
. “The Headless Horseman.”

29
. Marjorie Hunter, “G.O.P. Conservative Seeks Third Party’s Nomination,”
New York Times
, August 3, 1972.

30
. “The Hard-Luck Crusade,”
Time
, November 6, 1972.

31
. Yates, “Senate Hopeful Far Right.”

32
. “Wood County, WI Vote Totals 1972 Election,”
Marshfield (WI) News Herald
, November 8, 1972.