Quote: The persistent claim that Pres. Eisenhower was a communist agent is what destroyed the JBS reputation.It was an out-of-context partial quote by Robert Welch in the early 1950s written in a private then-unpublished research paper years before the creation of the John Birch Society.
Welch’s claims about Eisenhower are historical. Welch published “The Politician” in 1963. William F. Buckley and the salvagers of modern conservatism were not mistaken in their attitude toward the JBS.