Lew begins a series on President Dwight Eisenhower with a general discussion of “gatekeeping,” the effort the Establishment undertakes to prevent populist rebellion by bleeding support off to politicians who are actually doing their bidding, despite representations that may be made. Lew uses the example of William F. Buckley as an establishment gatekeeper operating within the conservative movement.
He then moves to setting up the historical situation that required an Establishment intervention into the presidential election of 1952, through the candidacy of Dwight David Eisenhower. A populist rebellion fueled by the successes of communism abroad and revelations of communists operating at the highest levels of government at home threatened internationalist projects like the UN. The Republicans appeared to be ready to nominate America First candidate Robert Taft, and that effort had to be stopped.
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Welcome to the eighty ninth episode of hour
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of decision.
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My name is Lou Moore.
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Today,
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we are gonna talk about gatekeepers
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and specifically,
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possibly the most consequential
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gatekeeper,
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of the twentieth century at least, if not
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the the whole modern era of politics,
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we'll be talking about
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president Dwight
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David Eisenhower.
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So,
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let's get right into it.
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So the whole idea of a gatekeeper
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is somebody that keeps those,
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keeps the natives from getting too restless,
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keeps that populous movement from gaining some steam,
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keeps the establishment
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in place and the establishment
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agenda
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on track.
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And in the case of America, as I
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dis have discussed in innumerable episodes of hour
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of decision,
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that agenda is was what they called the
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liberal consensus
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or the bipartisan
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consensus,
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which ran,
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at least
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since the end of World War two
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up until just a few years ago,
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from the nineteen forties until
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very recent times. And that consensus was,
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we needed to build world governmental institutions
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and build toward a wonderful world government
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while at the same time at home,
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increasingly
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every day
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centralizing
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power
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in Washington DC
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and getting government to do more and more
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things to make life a whole lot better
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for you. Of
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course, it has not made life better because
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government
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is terrible.
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But the dangers of the centralization
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of power
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that have resulted
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from this entire project, which is in fact,
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folks, the Fabian socialist project,
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the gradualist
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Marxist
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project
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that's been undertaken in this country at the
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highest levels,
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at least
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since the administration
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of Woodrow Wilson,
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who was elected in 1913,
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that,
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dangerous centralization
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of power
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under this regime
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may yet result
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in total government,
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absolute
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power and control over you,
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and an end
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to your personal liberties, to your constitutional
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rights,
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to the defining elements of what makes America
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America.
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So, anyway,
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in this process
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of centralizing power in Washington DC and in
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this process of getting more and more and
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more tangled up overseas,
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both militarily
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and through trade agreements like the World Trade
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Organization
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and NAFTA
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and health agreements,
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like the,
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the health agree the,
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UN health agreement,
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UNESCO, and all of the UN programs. I
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mean, the UN is the center
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of the,
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superstructure
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that they're trying to build to eventually create
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a one world government.
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In this whole process,
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that is so dangerous,
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there is the gatekeeper,
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the fellow who keeps or, can't be a
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gal, but it's been fellows primarily
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who keep
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America on track
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in this project. Of course, it's been pretty
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significantly
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disrupted by our current president Donald Trump, but
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I don't really wanna talk about Trump today
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and how much he is, knuckling under to
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the establishment and how much he is not
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because in many regards, he is not.
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But I really wanna take a look
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at Dwight
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David Eisenhower. But before we get to president
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Eisenhower, and this is
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gonna kick off an a series now, a
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new series in my presidential
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series.
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We've done five episodes on Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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We did three audio only episodes on John
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f Kennedy,
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and then we came back with one and
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a half episodes kind of summarizing,
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that in both audio and video. And then
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we did an episode on Harry Truman,
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who, if you weren't sure about it, was
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a terrible president.
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The name of the the name of that
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one. So anyway, now I'm moving
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past Truman
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to Dwight David Eisenhower, but I'm gonna start
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out by talking a little bit of practical
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politics as opposed to history and talking about
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these here
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gatekeepers.
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So,
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a real good example of a gatekeeper in
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the conservative
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movement,
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which is often where you find these people,
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was William f Buckley.
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Some a lot of you have heard of
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William f Buckley. Some of you might really
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like
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William f Buckley. I unfortunately
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heard Rush Limbaugh in one of his last
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broadcast,
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extolling the virtues of William f Buckley
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and National Review magazine. Buckley was,
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from
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money
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from the East,
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and had a show for years on PBS
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called Firing Line, which,
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you know, he came up when there wasn't
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talk radio, when there really was no conservative
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media, just a little bit around the edges.
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And he had the one national program
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that was on every week. It was a
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talk show where he would debate people, discuss
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issues called firing line.
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And everybody thought Buckley was just great.
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And in the fifties, he he started out
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pretty good with National Review magazine. It was
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really the first
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magazine of that type that was trying to
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coalesce conservative ideas,
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help to centralize
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the conservative
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movement to rationalize it.
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Frank Meyer at that magazine came up with
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what they called the three legged stool,
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uniting the rather disparate elements
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of the right in the nineteen fifties, the,
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traditionalist,
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the people who wanted traditional values,
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the libertarian types, the people who wanted free
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markets,
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primarily, and the anti communist
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who were a huge group
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at that time,
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and that kind of encompassed
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nationalists,
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people who wanted America
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to look out for its interests,
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and very focused at this point by the
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nineteen fifties
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on the expansion
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all over the world of communism. So, you
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know, that was a, that was a value
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add that National Review and Buckley and Buckley's
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team
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provided.
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But as time went on, Buckley more and
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more took on the role of a gatekeeper.
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A perfect example,
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and a rather stark example is when he
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excommunicated
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the John Birch Society,
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the followers of Ayn Rand, and basically the
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whole libertarian movement.
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And there was some other organization he had
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in there, but he declared they were no
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longer
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conservatives.
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And he had the ear of Ronald Reagan.
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He had the ear of Barry Goldwater.
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He had the ear of a lot of
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the movement conservatives and particularly,
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within the Republican party.
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And so,
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you know, Buckley, I mean, he was a
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big deal. He was a great talker, a
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great debater.
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And, so
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everyone in the conservative movement knew who who
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he was,
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and he impacted his thinking impacted a lot
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of them, but his thinking more and more,
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pushed the conservatives
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into the establishment
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mode. He was telling everybody how great Henry
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Kissinger was.
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He was telling everybody
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it would just be fine if we got
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rid of the Panama
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Canal.
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As I said, he ex commuted,
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excommunicated.
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I think he used that term.
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The John Birch Society
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and like minded,
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conservatives from the conservative movement, and that was
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because of their focus
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on the constitution
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and their outrage
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of how much we have violated the constitution,
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how far government has expanded
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beyond the 28 enumerated powers,
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that are laid out in the constitution, the
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only powers
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the federal government is supposed to take unto
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itself. The rest of the powers
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out there are supposed to belong to the
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states
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or to the people
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and not to any level of government.
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But,
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and the other part of that situation was
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the fact that the Birchers
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were all over
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the deep state. What we now call the
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deep state, they called it the conspiracy,
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but it was really the same thing. They
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put, you know, they put out great books.
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I mean, you hear me talk about them
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all the time, but a perfect example is
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this book right here.
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Which you see in a whole lot of
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life,
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Fabian
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Freeway.
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It's the whole story of this Fabian movement
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that I talk about all the time.
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The idea of gradually
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delivering us from
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a constitutional
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republic
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into a Marxist state. And,
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as I've also said many times,
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the revolution
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really did occur under Franklin Roosevelt, but it's
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just continued from there
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going from a chain state from a from
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a government where, the federal government just thinks
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they can get into everything. I mean, this
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has gone on since Roosevelt,
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but,
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heading us toward
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total government,
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total
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tyranny.
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And, so, you know, that's where the birchers
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were at, but that's not where Williamette Buckley
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was at.
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And then, coincidentally enough,
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one of the other issues that really set
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off Buckley
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was the Burch societies
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and primarily
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we're now actually talking about the leader of
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the Burch society, Rod Robert Welch's
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animus
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toward Dwight
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David Eisenhower,
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who was,
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one of the most popular people in America
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before he ran for president,
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while he was president,
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and then for many, many years after,
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even though
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he was terrible.
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Eisenhower was terrible.
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And, and as I'm going to discuss
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for the rest of this episode and a
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couple of more probably,
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he had a real impact
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on this country,
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and it wasn't a good one. And his
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impact primarily
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was
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not to move the Fabian project rapidly
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as Franklin Delano Roosevelt did, as Lyndon Baines
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Johnson did, as John f Kennedy tried to
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do,
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as Obama did,
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but his job was just to keep it
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from going backwards or from being attacked and
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actually taken
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down
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in the early nineteen fifties.
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That was his job, Eisenhower's
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job,
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and he did a very good job
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taking care of that. But people were not
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stupid,
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And so Robert Wells put out a book.
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I believe it it first came out in
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1958,
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and it was not intended
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for a public audience. It was a private
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letter he wrote to, like, 300,
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friends, followers,
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staunch members of the bird society,
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which laid out in
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great detail,
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extremely well documented
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detail,
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hundreds and hundreds of footnotes of detail,
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the entire
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scam
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that was Dwight David Eisenhower,
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and he called that book.
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It became a book. It was a a
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a long letter. Robert Welch could write a
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letter. Let me tell you. It could be
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a 100 pages. Easy. And this was a
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lot more than that. This was hundreds of
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pages.
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It was a manuscript.
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Maybe that's the right term for it. Called
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The Politician,
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but somebody leaked it. And so it got
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out into the public. Welch
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didn't really, knowing how popular Eisenhower was,
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he didn't wanna get the bird society too
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tangled up
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in his very staunch views on Eisenhower.
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He wanted that because,
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he was only the president for a brief
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period,
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from the time that Birch Society was formed,
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and then he was out of office.
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Yeah. Welch wanted to stay on the big
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picture
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of reversing
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this,
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big government consensus
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at home and the world government construction going
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on overseas,
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and he didn't wanna get all off on,
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you know, talking about Eisenhower
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every time the Birch Society appeared in public.
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But that ended up happening
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because this manuscript, the politician, was leaked.
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After it was leaked, then, he went ahead
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and privately
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printed it.
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And, I don't see a copy of it
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looking
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looking into my camera here. I'm looking at
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my books behind me. I don't see a
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copy of it right there. I have several
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copies of it
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annotated,
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to the max.
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And,
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it's a great book. It's a fantastic book,
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and it's a pretty deep book.
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But, anyway,
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so Wells
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had the the book was out, was in
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the public, and that's when the super attack
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on the John Birch Society began, which was,
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you know, really, like, three years after their
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formation because they were growing and exploding all
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over the country
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with chapters in local communities.
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Not a Beltway
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banded operation, not a PO box somewhere asking
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you for money every week.
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They were organizing
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people all over America
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to take their country back.
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Hundreds of thousands of them,
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and they were pretty radical because they were
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focused on the mission.
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And so, the derailment of that mission began
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around 1962,
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and I I don't wanna get off on
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that too much, but a lot of it
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centered around
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Welch's attack
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on Dwight David Eisenhower
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in this book, The Politician. And that's what
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William F. Buckley
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focused on
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when later
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down the road,
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he announced in National Review magazine that the
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Burch Society was excommunicated
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from the conservative movement, and that was pretty
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rich for Buckley considering
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that,
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as I said in an earlier episode,
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there were 100 birchers on the floor of
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the nineteen sixty four Republican
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convention, and they were key and critical
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to the Barry Goldwater campaign to the whole
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movement that was conservatism
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because they were on the ground, because they
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were a grassroots organization,
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because their people were well informed and highly
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motivated,
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where Buckley
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was sidelined by the Go Water campaign and
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really was just
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talking on the sidelines
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and,
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probably very jealous of the central role that
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members of the Bert Society had in that
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first epic
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conservative campaign. But anyway so Buckley,
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later on, as I said,
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telling everybody how great it would be to
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give the Panama Canal to a Marxist dictator
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in Panama,
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which essentially gave it to the Chinese Communist
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Party down the road, which is the situation
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that Trump is pushing back on today.
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Finally,
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Buckley was,
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lauding all kinds of efforts
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of Henry Kissinger.
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Oh, he is so tough out there in
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the foreign policy
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arena.
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And and more and more, Buckley was just
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a
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mouthpiece
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of the right,
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kinda like Dick Cheney was later,
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a so called
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mouthpiece on the right
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for,
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the CFR,
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the Council on Foreign Relations program.
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And,
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terrible.
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Terrible. And Buckley ended up to be,
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you know, counterproductive
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at minimum. And so I would call him
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a very good example of the of a
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gatekeeper because a whole lot of people who
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were conservative
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did not make that, which is really a
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pretty natural progression
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into understanding some of the deeper aspects of
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why there is so much socialism in America,
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why we don't win wars, why we have
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troops in a 120 countries,
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why we have
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55
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people with visas
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in this country right now, and probably 55
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illegal aliens.
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You know, that's just a few issues, folks,
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that are related to our corporate masters and
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their international
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schemes.
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And so a lot of conservatives were stopped
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in their progress,
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on this in their own thinking, and then
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in their activism
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by William F. Buckley.
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He was a gatekeeper.
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And so
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that's an example of a gatekeeper.
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But now I'm gonna return
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to the gatekeeper par excellence, a man by
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the name of Dwight David Eisenhower.
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So Eisenhower
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and,
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I I I've been
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debating how to attack this subject because I
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wanna get right into the politics here today.
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I think the next episode will get more
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in-depth in his history. But, anyhow,
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suffice it to say, Eisenhower had a meteoric
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rise,
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in the military after he had dinner with
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Anna Roosevelt,
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daughter of the president,
00:19:12
and her husband, the editor of the or
00:19:15
owner, excuse me, of the Seattle no. He
00:19:18
was editor, I guess, of the Seattle Post
00:19:19
Intelligencer,
00:19:21
and and this meeting was in Seattle, Washington.
00:19:24
They had dinner,
00:19:25
and Anna
00:19:27
phoned her father and said, we have found
00:19:29
the man. We have found the man to
00:19:31
lead your war effort.
00:19:34
Of course, at this point,
00:19:36
I'm pretty sure that this was still during
00:19:38
the period where Roosevelt was saying he didn't
00:19:40
wanna send your boys to war, but, of
00:19:42
course, he was lying
00:19:44
as Wilson lied with World War one, as
00:19:47
Johnson lied about Vietnam.
00:19:49
And,
00:19:51
so,
00:19:52
after this meeting,
00:19:54
Eisenhower, who had been
00:19:56
pretty much of a zero, he had been
00:19:58
a major for years.
00:20:01
He actually was in a scandal,
00:20:03
early in his career and almost went to
00:20:05
prison
00:20:06
because he took a housing allowance. He took
00:20:09
cash money
00:20:10
for a housing allowance,
00:20:12
when he was living with family and didn't
00:20:15
have to pay for housing. And he got
00:20:17
found out and,
00:20:18
there was one general there wanted
00:20:20
to court martial him and put him in
00:20:22
prison.
00:20:23
But he, he slithered out from under that,
00:20:26
but,
00:20:27
you know, he had a terrible,
00:20:29
a very mediocre,
00:20:31
career at best
00:20:33
until this period of time where he catches
00:20:36
the eye of the Franklin Roosevelt political operation.
00:20:40
And then his rise was meteoric
00:20:42
from lieutenant colonel to colonel,
00:20:45
to general, and,
00:20:47
then by 1943,
00:20:49
the supreme commander
00:20:51
of all allied forces
00:20:54
in Europe,
00:20:55
which is the role that most Americans
00:20:57
knew him to be in.
00:21:00
Eisenhower had never served in combat.
00:21:03
Eisenhower
00:21:04
was a terrible general.
00:21:07
He had two big problems
00:21:09
while he was the supreme commander of the
00:21:12
allied forces. One, he dithered
00:21:15
and could not make a decision, and there
00:21:17
are just several examples of this, and I'll
00:21:19
go into some of that
00:21:21
when I talk about, his that whole era
00:21:23
of his life.
00:21:25
He dithered,
00:21:26
but he also
00:21:28
did whatever Franklin Roosevelt wanted,
00:21:31
which meant he did basically
00:21:33
whatever Joseph Stalin wanted. And the biggest thing
00:21:36
Joseph Stalin wanted
00:21:38
was,
00:21:40
he wanted the allies to move as slowly
00:21:44
as humanly possible across Western Europe
00:21:48
so Stalin could gobble up as much territory
00:21:52
as possible
00:21:53
coming from the East.
00:21:55
And so at one point, we find Eisenhower
00:21:57
actually taking all gasoline
00:21:59
away from George Patton,
00:22:01
his general who could have been to Berlin
00:22:04
months,
00:22:05
months
00:22:06
before he finally got to that vicinity
00:22:10
because,
00:22:12
you know, anyway, I I won't get in
00:22:14
all of the detail about that now, but
00:22:16
Eisenhower
00:22:17
continually
00:22:19
if he wasn't dithering on a decision, he
00:22:21
was making a decision to stop or slow
00:22:24
the progress
00:22:25
of the allies,
00:22:27
and it drove both Patton and Montgomery,
00:22:30
the chief,
00:22:31
commander
00:22:32
chief general for the Brits
00:22:34
absolutely out of their minds.
00:22:36
But Eisenhower
00:22:38
was able to administrate everything and do whatever
00:22:41
Franklin Roosevelt wanted
00:22:43
to his satisfaction.
00:22:45
So Eisenhower was doing just fine career wise,
00:22:48
and, of course,
00:22:50
the media,
00:22:51
which
00:22:52
puffed out of all reasonableness,
00:22:55
the whole situation in Europe to get us
00:22:58
into the war, to get the American people
00:23:01
off their almost
00:23:02
90%
00:23:03
opposition
00:23:05
to fighting another war after World War one.
00:23:09
Overwhelming part of the media
00:23:11
was pro war, and some of the media
00:23:13
that was not pro war, like the Chicago
00:23:16
Tribune,
00:23:17
had the
00:23:19
onus on them that they were in the
00:23:21
America First Committee before World War two
00:23:24
and weren't considered fully supportive of the effort
00:23:27
against the Nazis.
00:23:29
And so,
00:23:32
anyway,
00:23:32
so the the the media most established media,
00:23:36
NBC, ABC,
00:23:37
CBS,
00:23:38
the Mutual Broadcasting Corporation, the Blue Network on
00:23:41
radio, the New York Times, the Washington Post,
00:23:43
the St. Louis Post dispatch, all these people
00:23:46
were heavily
00:23:47
invested in the war and puffing up general
00:23:51
Eisenhower's
00:23:52
exploits
00:23:53
twenty
00:23:54
four seven.
00:23:56
So Ike was just getting one
00:23:58
solid
00:24:00
array
00:24:02
from 90% of the media of fantastic
00:24:06
publicity
00:24:07
with no mention.
00:24:09
Certainly no highlighting
00:24:11
of the many, many aspects of his tenure
00:24:14
as general
00:24:15
that weren't very good.
00:24:18
But anyway so I came out of World
00:24:20
War two,
00:24:21
an extremely popular person
00:24:24
in America.
00:24:26
My name is Lou Moore, and you are
00:24:28
listening to Hour of Decision
00:24:31
on Liberty News Radio.
00:24:33
And we will be right back
00:24:35
for more of Dwight David Eisenhower
00:24:38
right after the news.
00:24:41
Welcome to Hour of Decision.
00:24:44
This is the second half of our show
00:24:46
today, and we are talking about president
00:24:49
Dwight David Eisenhower. And specifically,
00:24:52
we are talking about his role as a
00:24:54
gatekeeper, which I am just now
00:24:57
about to begin
00:24:59
that explanation.
00:25:01
So Eisenhower came out
00:25:03
of World War two
00:25:05
smelling like a rose. Eisenhower
00:25:08
was just great. He was so popular.
00:25:11
He was such a
00:25:12
leader of men, and he defeated the Nazis.
00:25:16
He was just a great man all the
00:25:18
way around.
00:25:19
And, he was not a great man, and
00:25:21
all kinds of horrid things happened at the
00:25:24
end of the war.
00:25:27
Millions of people slaughtered, and I am not
00:25:30
talking
00:25:31
about the Jewish individuals in concentration camps. I'm
00:25:34
talking about
00:25:35
a lot of other people, German prisoners of
00:25:38
war, people who were forced to go back
00:25:40
to Russia,
00:25:41
people who were starved to death.
00:25:44
At the end of the war and after,
00:25:46
it was a hellscape.
00:25:48
That's actually the name of a book.
00:25:50
A a, book I can't remember the historian's
00:25:53
name. It's called hellscape. It's about
00:25:55
what Europe was like in 1945,
00:25:58
1946,
00:25:59
1947.
00:26:01
And Dwight David Eisenhower
00:26:03
had everything to do with that, folks.
00:26:06
Everything. Anyway, terrible.
00:26:08
But he came back very popular with American
00:26:10
public,
00:26:12
But
00:26:13
the American public
00:26:15
was not happy
00:26:17
at the end of World War two.
00:26:19
They were promised
00:26:21
that if they fought this all out war,
00:26:23
if they sacrificed, that they couldn't if they
00:26:25
had rationing on tires and rationing on butter
00:26:28
and rationing on other essentials, and if 16
00:26:33
men were drafted,
00:26:35
and sent overseas
00:26:37
either to Europe or to the Pacific,
00:26:41
that at the end of this war,
00:26:43
there would be no more tyranny.
00:26:45
There we would defeat all tyranny because,
00:26:49
National Socialist Germany and the Imperial Japan were
00:26:52
supposed to be the epitome
00:26:54
of tyranny, and we were fighting in all
00:26:57
out war against them
00:26:59
to defeat them and doing things like bombing
00:27:02
civilians constantly
00:27:04
and starving them to death and dropping atom
00:27:06
bombs on them and everything else, but it
00:27:08
was all worth it
00:27:09
because we were gonna have this great wonderful
00:27:12
order
00:27:13
in the world at the end
00:27:15
of World War two. And there was a
00:27:18
lot of talk
00:27:19
about forming a world government and the public
00:27:23
at first thought, well, maybe that'd be a
00:27:24
good idea so we don't have any more
00:27:26
wars if we just have a world government.
00:27:29
If there's just one government, then these governments
00:27:31
won't be fighting each other.
00:27:33
Of course, that's a terrible idea, and we
00:27:35
know who was promoting that idea. But,
00:27:39
by the end of the war, the public
00:27:41
saw that the only real benefactor
00:27:45
from what happened
00:27:47
from the fifty five to eighty million people
00:27:50
who died in this war,
00:27:52
from the 16 to 17
00:27:54
Americans that,
00:27:56
had to serve in this war, 1 women
00:27:59
and the rest men,
00:28:02
that the only,
00:28:05
beneficiary
00:28:05
of this war
00:28:07
were the communists.
00:28:09
The communists now control all of of Eastern
00:28:12
Europe. All that delaying Eisenhower was doing
00:28:15
allowed Stalin to gobble up a whole lot
00:28:17
of territory.
00:28:19
Half of Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia.
00:28:22
Anyway, the whole Eastern Europe, the Baltic States,
00:28:24
that whole region, all communist,
00:28:27
and
00:28:28
heading for communism at a rapid rate
00:28:31
in China,
00:28:33
in Asia,
00:28:34
where very favorable treaties
00:28:37
that,
00:28:38
that,
00:28:39
FDR
00:28:42
signed with Stalin, like, like at the Yalta
00:28:44
agreement,
00:28:46
set the table
00:28:47
for,
00:28:50
the conquest,
00:28:51
for Mao Zedong's conquest of China, which was
00:28:54
finalized in 1949,
00:28:56
which set, the table for the Korean War
00:28:58
because we gave Stalin half of Korea
00:29:01
in the Alta agreement.
00:29:03
We we promised to repatriate.
00:29:06
People of Russia didn't want to go there.
00:29:09
To this communist hellhole of,
00:29:12
the USSR.
00:29:13
We did that.
00:29:15
We gave millions of dollars in material
00:29:19
to, Russia to use in Asia.
00:29:22
We had already been giving them
00:29:24
many, many, many millions of dollars
00:29:28
and tons
00:29:29
of material
00:29:30
to fight the war.
00:29:32
And on top of all of that, people
00:29:34
were now finding out
00:29:36
there was a whole lot of people in
00:29:38
our government
00:29:39
who were not working for us. They were
00:29:42
working for the Soviets. People like Alger Hiss,
00:29:45
people like Harry Dexter White.
00:29:48
The list goes on and on, and do
00:29:50
not believe the propaganda
00:29:51
folks.
00:29:52
There wasn't a red scare red scare
00:29:56
at the end of World War two. There
00:29:57
was a red awareness.
00:29:59
An awareness,
00:30:01
that had that finally surfaced at the end
00:30:04
of the war
00:30:05
of how
00:30:06
penetrated
00:30:08
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's
00:30:10
government was
00:30:12
and, and what these people were doing and
00:30:14
how high of positions many of them had.
00:30:17
Alger Hiss
00:30:18
was the first secretary general of the UN.
00:30:21
He was the central go to guy to
00:30:24
staff
00:30:25
the United Nations as far as Americans
00:30:27
that were put on the staff of the
00:30:29
United Nations. Harry Dexter White
00:30:32
designed the monetary system we are still using
00:30:35
today from the Bretton Woods agreement.
00:30:37
These people were not
00:30:40
inconsequential
00:30:41
despise trying to steal some microfilm or something
00:30:44
like that. These people were driving policy folks,
00:30:47
and, of course,
00:30:49
Roosevelt seemed to be all about it. But
00:30:50
we talked about that at at some great
00:30:52
length
00:30:53
in our Roosevelt episodes.
00:30:56
But, anyway, the public was seeing
00:30:59
that that, we were possibly in more danger
00:31:02
than we were,
00:31:03
if not for sure, in more danger than
00:31:05
we were in 1939
00:31:07
before World War two started.
00:31:09
And then there were the unions
00:31:12
that, Franklin Roosevelt greatly empowered during the depression,
00:31:16
and,
00:31:18
there were 4 strikes in 1944,
00:31:21
the year before the war fully ended. 4
00:31:24
strikes in America.
00:31:26
Highly disruptive.
00:31:28
Disruptive of consumers,
00:31:30
but also disruptive of union families.
00:31:33
And a lot of them did not like
00:31:35
the the fact that their unions
00:31:38
were off the charts to the left, yet
00:31:40
not run by communists,
00:31:42
particularly those in the CIO, the Congress of
00:31:45
Industrial Organizations.
00:31:47
So there was a lot
00:31:49
of discontent in the land,
00:31:51
and the Democrats had been running the country
00:31:54
since 1932,
00:31:56
since,
00:31:57
FDR won the election in 1932,
00:32:00
two years after the depression began.
00:32:03
And a lot of people were
00:32:05
not forgetting
00:32:07
that after years of the new deal and
00:32:09
years of completely changing our form of government
00:32:13
and centralizing power in Washington DC and spending
00:32:16
a ton of money,
00:32:19
that the depression was as bad or worse
00:32:21
in 1937
00:32:23
as it was when Roosevelt took office in
00:32:25
1933.
00:32:27
A lot of people remembered that.
00:32:29
So there was a lot of,
00:32:32
discontent.
00:32:35
People were tired of the Democrats
00:32:37
just in general, even your very low information
00:32:40
voter.
00:32:41
I I it seemed like a change was
00:32:43
appropriate.
00:32:44
And then there were all these
00:32:46
great candidates coming home who were combat veterans.
00:32:50
I mean, you know, you can imagine with
00:32:52
the millions
00:32:53
of people that served in World War two,
00:32:55
there were a ton of combat veterans. And
00:32:58
even if only a small fraction of them
00:33:00
got into politics,
00:33:01
you know, they made pretty good candidates.
00:33:04
And so in 1946,
00:33:07
you had a a populist rebellion of sorts.
00:33:10
The, Democrats lost control of the house and
00:33:14
the senate,
00:33:15
and people got elected
00:33:17
like Joe McCarthy,
00:33:19
senator in Wisconsin,
00:33:21
like Richard Nixon who became a congressman in
00:33:24
California, and they both,
00:33:27
upset,
00:33:28
very ensconced, very left wing Democrats
00:33:31
in those two races and even among the
00:33:33
Democrats.
00:33:34
Young man named John f Kennedy
00:33:36
went to the congress in 1946
00:33:38
from Massachusetts,
00:33:39
and he was talking
00:33:41
about a lot of the things that Nixon
00:33:43
was talking about and McCarthy was talking about
00:33:46
as far as penetration of communist
00:33:49
in our government.
00:33:51
So there was a rebellion
00:33:53
going on in the land and power changing
00:33:56
hands and suddenly,
00:33:58
and this is why we know so much
00:33:59
about these things now, folks. One of the
00:34:01
primary reasons,
00:34:03
the FBI had been keeping very close tabs
00:34:06
on the communist,
00:34:07
but Roosevelt wouldn't let them do anything about
00:34:09
it. But they had everything teed up for
00:34:13
several
00:34:14
congressional committees. It wasn't just the house committee
00:34:16
on un American activities.
00:34:18
And, of course, people get confused. Joe McCarthy
00:34:21
actually didn't get active
00:34:23
in this area
00:34:24
until 1950
00:34:26
for four for four more years before he
00:34:28
got active.
00:34:30
But,
00:34:31
there were many committees
00:34:32
investigating
00:34:33
communism in government, communism in Hollywood,
00:34:36
communism
00:34:37
in the foundations,
00:34:39
in the tax free foundations,
00:34:41
links to the Rockefellers.
00:34:43
This kind of thing,
00:34:45
very nervous
00:34:46
for our masters.
00:34:48
So there was ferment in the land,
00:34:52
and there were there was a changeover in
00:34:54
the congress, as I said, but there was
00:34:56
not
00:34:57
a concerted conservative movement that could come up
00:35:00
with
00:35:01
a presidential
00:35:03
candidate in 1948,
00:35:05
not a centralized enough movement,
00:35:08
cohesive enough movement
00:35:10
to come up with a presidential candidate,
00:35:13
representing
00:35:15
this populist
00:35:16
rebellion.
00:35:17
So the establishment
00:35:19
Republicans,
00:35:20
there's always establishment Republicans.
00:35:23
And, of course, they go all the way
00:35:25
back because the Republican
00:35:27
party was the big government party,
00:35:30
up into the nineteen twenties, and they still
00:35:33
had a number of folks who
00:35:35
were
00:35:36
came out of the progressive movement. Even Calvin
00:35:39
Coolidge,
00:35:40
came out of the progressive
00:35:42
movement.
00:35:43
And,
00:35:45
the center of gravity of the party was
00:35:47
definitely the East
00:35:49
and was definitely
00:35:50
the big banks
00:35:52
and was definitely,
00:35:54
that element
00:35:56
of the council on foreign relations
00:35:59
who played ball,
00:36:00
you know, with the more conservative
00:36:02
types, the ones that were not, in Roosevelt's
00:36:05
camp. There's always two parties that they're trying
00:36:08
to,
00:36:09
manipulate.
00:36:10
And so
00:36:11
control of the party was in the hands
00:36:14
of the eastern establishment. And the other thing
00:36:16
to remember is back in 1948,
00:36:20
almost all the delegates
00:36:23
for, the,
00:36:24
national convention, the place where they nominate
00:36:28
a candidate to go into the general election,
00:36:31
almost all
00:36:33
of those delegates
00:36:35
come from caucuses.
00:36:37
They don't come
00:36:38
from primaries. They come from the proverbial
00:36:41
backroom.
00:36:42
They come from the powers that be and
00:36:45
the the powers that be in the party.
00:36:47
They don't they're not necessarily,
00:36:51
when and particularly when it's almost every delegate
00:36:53
of the in this category,
00:36:55
they don't necessarily
00:36:57
represent
00:36:58
a movement of people. I mean, these guys
00:37:00
are political operatives. They're sensitive to things they
00:37:03
see,
00:37:04
but the they're not automatically,
00:37:07
going to go the direction of,
00:37:10
the way the masses are moving. So the
00:37:13
bottom line is here,
00:37:15
there's all this ferment going on, but in
00:37:17
1948,
00:37:18
the nominee of the Republican Party was Thomas
00:37:21
e Dewey,
00:37:22
the governor of New York,
00:37:25
who was
00:37:27
internationalist,
00:37:28
big business
00:37:30
to the core,
00:37:31
to the absolute core.
00:37:34
And,
00:37:35
the Democrats,
00:37:37
were
00:37:38
in disarray because of the
00:37:41
democrats having problems that there was fatigue with
00:37:44
the democrats.
00:37:45
But the democrats
00:37:46
having problems that there was the anti communist
00:37:49
issue that was just building and building and
00:37:52
building.
00:37:53
The Democrats also had the problem that their
00:37:56
standard bearer was Harry s Truman,
00:37:59
who despite what you may have heard more,
00:38:01
you know, recently or,
00:38:03
what you've heard on,
00:38:04
historians say or whatever on a TV show,
00:38:07
last reviews, He was a terrible candidate. He
00:38:10
was absolutely awful, and he was not popular.
00:38:13
I mean, his popularity got down to, like,
00:38:15
21%
00:38:17
at one point. It's the lowest,
00:38:19
I'm pretty sure it's the lowest reading ever
00:38:22
from the, you know, the Gallup poll people
00:38:25
or, you know, the pollsters of the day
00:38:28
compared to the pollsters since then. He was
00:38:30
not popular.
00:38:31
And, there were defections on the right.
00:38:34
I talk about this in my Truman episode.
00:38:37
The South,
00:38:38
who was already getting very nervous about FDR,
00:38:43
the South was abandoning Truman
00:38:46
because of the civil rights issue that was
00:38:48
building,
00:38:50
and the left was abandoning Truman because they
00:38:53
wanted
00:38:54
Henry Wallace,
00:38:55
who was booted off Roosevelt's ticket in 1944
00:38:59
to put Truman on.
00:39:01
Truman's supposed to be a safe pair of
00:39:03
hands, a party man that would do whatever
00:39:06
the Roosevelt people and the party told him
00:39:08
to do.
00:39:10
So he he bumped off the hero of
00:39:13
the far left in the Democrat party, Henry
00:39:15
or one of them, Henry Wallace.
00:39:17
So Wallace is running on the progressive party
00:39:20
in 1948,
00:39:21
and a young senator by the name of
00:39:23
Strom Thurmond from South Carolina,
00:39:25
who would later be very prominent in Republican
00:39:27
politics,
00:39:28
was running on a state rights, state's rights
00:39:32
party or Dixiecrat
00:39:34
party program against integration.
00:39:37
So Truman had defections from both directions,
00:39:40
and Dewey thought he had it in the
00:39:42
bag. That's my point. This establishment Republican, he
00:39:46
didn't campaign vigorously.
00:39:48
He wasn't vigorous in what he said. He
00:39:50
wasn't vigorous in what he did.
00:39:53
And Truman went to the Israel what then
00:39:56
would,
00:39:57
be called the Israel Lobby. It wasn't a
00:39:59
formal lobby then, but he went to the
00:40:00
Jewish community,
00:40:03
recognized the state of Israel,
00:40:05
and,
00:40:06
rolled up his sleeves with the union movement
00:40:08
that was still very strong at that time
00:40:11
who was under major attack
00:40:13
from the Republicans,
00:40:15
and,
00:40:17
it was able to win in 1948.
00:40:19
So this populist movement that was building
00:40:22
stalled out in 1948,
00:40:24
and these,
00:40:25
congressional committees I just referred to,
00:40:28
all the chairs reverted to Democrats.
00:40:31
And in only one case,
00:40:33
a senate committee that Pat McCarron
00:40:36
chaired. Pat McCarron, a Democrat from Nevada, a
00:40:39
great man.
00:40:41
He you know, he was great because they
00:40:43
named the Las Vegas Airport after him. And
00:40:45
then during the Black Lives Matter movement, they
00:40:48
stripped his name off of the airport, so
00:40:50
you know he was a good man. But,
00:40:52
anyway, other than him,
00:40:55
there weren't any other chairs of these committees
00:40:57
that were really going after it on the
00:40:59
anti communist issue, and so that stalled out.
00:41:01
But it didn't stall out in what people
00:41:04
were seeing on the news.
00:41:06
The Russians announced they had the bomb
00:41:09
in 1949,
00:41:11
a result of a lot of atomic spies,
00:41:14
including the Rosenbergs
00:41:16
who did actually fry, who did actually get
00:41:18
the electric chair for their role in stealing
00:41:22
atomic,
00:41:23
secrets under,
00:41:25
you know, during the Robert Oppenheimer
00:41:27
program there at Los Alamos.
00:41:30
So all the the Rosenbergs were in the
00:41:32
news. Russia getting the bomb was in the
00:41:34
news.
00:41:35
Mao Zedong announced that he had completely taken
00:41:38
China.
00:41:39
And, Chiang Kai shek, the nationalist Chinese leader,
00:41:43
was relegated to the island of Formosa.
00:41:46
We now know that as Taiwan.
00:41:49
That happened in 1949.
00:41:51
And there was just
00:41:52
still
00:41:53
revelations coming out about a lot of
00:41:56
these hangers on from the, Roosevelt administration. Some
00:41:59
had left, but
00:42:01
some of them had not left. And Truman
00:42:03
was fighting,
00:42:05
the congress and keeping information from them, keeping
00:42:08
their personnel files files locked up in the
00:42:10
White House.
00:42:12
And,
00:42:14
and so the these were daily news stories.
00:42:17
So this is still building in the country.
00:42:20
And then in 1950,
00:42:22
when when we get get to the next
00:42:24
election,
00:42:26
the first big volley of the election, it
00:42:28
was in February 1950, and it was a
00:42:30
speech that a young senator named Joe McCarthy
00:42:34
gave at Wheeling, West Virginia,
00:42:36
where he stated that 57,
00:42:39
57 individuals were members of the communist party
00:42:42
that were in high positions in our government
00:42:44
and several 100 more,
00:42:47
were also fellow travelers are also in positions
00:42:50
in the government.
00:42:51
And, anyway, I won't get off into Joe
00:42:53
McCarthy. We have a whole episode on that.
00:42:55
If you wanna learn more about
00:42:57
Joe McCarthy, just go look
00:42:59
in the show archives for hour of decision.
00:43:02
So the anti communist issue is just building.
00:43:04
And then, later in 1950,
00:43:07
North Korea
00:43:08
attacked South Korea. There were one there's one
00:43:11
more fruit of the Yalta agreement,
00:43:14
where we gave
00:43:16
North Korea to the communist.
00:43:18
They attacked South Korea
00:43:20
and almost push,
00:43:22
the Americans
00:43:23
off
00:43:24
that entire peninsula and out of Korea
00:43:28
until general MacArthur was sent in from Japan.
00:43:30
He had been the governor of Japan,
00:43:33
peacetime governor,
00:43:34
the only successful nation builder in our nation's
00:43:37
history. He did a very good job over
00:43:39
there and turned them into an industrial powerhouse.
00:43:42
But, anyway, I digress.
00:43:44
But,
00:43:45
MacArthur,
00:43:48
then pushed
00:43:49
the communist all the way up to the
00:43:52
Yalu River all the way up to just
00:43:54
about to China. Just practically drove the North
00:43:56
Korean communist out of the country,
00:43:59
and then he was fired by Harry s
00:44:01
Truman.
00:44:03
One more thing that the public was outraged
00:44:05
about because MacArthur,
00:44:07
in a different way than Eisenhower, he didn't
00:44:09
get good press from the liberal press. They
00:44:12
hated MacArthur, but he was
00:44:14
revered,
00:44:15
and most people understood him to be the
00:44:18
very best general
00:44:19
that we had
00:44:21
in 1950.
00:44:22
So all these things are happening.
00:44:24
That issue set is not looking very good
00:44:27
for the Democrats.
00:44:30
So that sets the table
00:44:32
for a senator from Ohio
00:44:35
by the name of Robert Taft.
00:44:37
Robert Taft was from a family who founded
00:44:41
Skull and Bones. His grandfather, Alfonso Taft, founded
00:44:44
Skull and Bones.
00:44:46
His father,
00:44:47
William Howard Taft, was president of The United
00:44:50
States from nineteen o eight to 1912. I
00:44:52
talk about him in my episode on the
00:44:55
fateful election of nineteen twelve.
00:44:58
But,
00:44:59
but Taft,
00:45:00
Robert Taft's father,
00:45:03
the Taft that was president of The United
00:45:05
States from nineteen o eight to 1912,
00:45:08
he rebelled against the idea
00:45:11
of a banker run central
00:45:13
bank. He gave re despite the fact he
00:45:15
was a total creature of the establishment
00:45:18
and a member of Skull and Bones,
00:45:20
he did not like
00:45:22
what was happening with the Eastern banks, and
00:45:24
he was from Ohio, and his power base
00:45:26
was in the Midwest.
00:45:28
And he knew that New York was just
00:45:30
going to get an immense amount of power
00:45:33
as a region
00:45:34
under the federal reserve
00:45:36
proposals
00:45:38
that, the first proposal,
00:45:40
created there at after the Jekyll Island meeting
00:45:43
by Paul Warburg.
00:45:45
First bill put out by Nelson Aldridge.
00:45:47
Anyway, he didn't like it.
00:45:50
And so,
00:45:51
he was dragging his feet on supporting it,
00:45:54
so he had to go.
00:45:56
Anyway,
00:45:57
so
00:45:58
the establishment screwed,
00:46:00
Taft,
00:46:01
and he lost the White House. So his
00:46:03
son now is a senator from Ohio,
00:46:06
and his son
00:46:08
doesn't like
00:46:10
the bipartisan
00:46:11
consensus. He doesn't like
00:46:14
the, NATO. He he voted against NATO. He
00:46:17
opposed going into NATO. He wasn't a big
00:46:20
fan of even going into World War two.
00:46:22
He was opposed
00:46:23
to endless wars. He was opposed to having
00:46:26
our troops all over the world.
00:46:28
At the same time, he was a very
00:46:30
militant anti communist
00:46:32
and supported a best investigating
00:46:34
communism at home.
00:46:36
Remember,
00:46:37
once the,
00:46:38
establishment
00:46:40
saw how concerned the public was about communism,
00:46:44
they
00:46:45
turn things around to where,
00:46:48
everything about communism that was bad was overseas.
00:46:51
So we had to fight communism overseas,
00:46:55
but not at home.
00:46:56
And totally against investigating
00:46:58
communist at home because that divides our country,
00:47:02
and there I was a red scare, didn't
00:47:04
really happen.
00:47:05
Anyway,
00:47:06
so,
00:47:07
Taft was just a reverse.
00:47:09
So he was a real danger to the
00:47:12
establishment,
00:47:13
and, oh,
00:47:15
the party base
00:47:17
loved him. They called him
00:47:19
mister
00:47:20
Republican.
00:47:22
Taft, folks,
00:47:23
there's five senators.
00:47:25
Five senators since the senate began
00:47:28
who have their pictures in a gallery
00:47:30
in the senate,
00:47:32
as the greatest senators ever.
00:47:35
And one of them is Robert Taft.
00:47:37
And so he was beloved.
00:47:40
And I lived with a woman, my mother,
00:47:44
my first political mentor,
00:47:45
who was very active, very involved with politics,
00:47:48
she loved Robert Taft. Robert Taft was mister
00:47:51
Republican,
00:47:52
but the establishment,
00:47:54
seeing he was about ready
00:47:56
to win
00:47:57
the nomination for president in 1952
00:48:00
because he had those party regulars
00:48:03
that's that are come out of the caucuses
00:48:06
behind him in huge numbers.
00:48:08
When they saw that,
00:48:10
they had to do something about it, and
00:48:12
what they did
00:48:13
was bring in Dwight David Eisenhower. And we
00:48:16
are gonna talk further now
00:48:18
about the election of nineteen fifty two and
00:48:20
the presidency of Dwight David Eisenhower
00:48:23
next week.
00:48:24
My name is Lou Moore, and you're listening
00:48:26
to Hour of Decision
00:48:28
on Liberty News Radio.
00:48:30
See you later.