bomb shelter, alongside Hitler. Gore Vidal once confided to Jack Paar that “there’s a whole theory that the Birch Society might very well be a Communist Society.” Although he was presumably pulling Jack’s leg, there are unquestionably any number of people in whose darkest thoughts the suspicion lurks that maybe the John Birch Society is actually a Communist operation. It gets confusing, doesn’t it? General Eisenhower, Robert Welch has said, is a Communist. Kennedy, suggested Professor Oliver, was a Communist. It only remains to be charged that God is really a Communist, which allegation has the advantage of accounting for the strange behavior of the world in recent times.
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