one is that birch represented to the mind of robert welch the epitome of american values. he'd been a missionary, he'd been a military office, he'd helped -- according to welch -- to rescue jimmy doolittle. he was described by noland and then welch as the first casualty of world war iii. the first casualty of the cold war. the first victim at the hands of the communists. but equally important to welch was the idea, his belief that there was a conspiracy to cover up the death of john birch. the secret file, the top secret file on birch's death was not released until after nixon's visit to china in 1972 as a result of a freedom of information request. robert welch realized it was the geopolitical context that gave john birch story a greater snaps. he noted -- sentence. significance. he noted he committed to nations to his creed, but his murder illuminated a crossroads of is civilization. in one direction toward greater freedom, further growth and more enlightenment. as welch put it, with his death and in his death the battle lines are drawn. if birch had sacrificed his life i

the robert welch read the speech and latched onto it. he went to make -- macon, georgia visited with parents, told him that he believed the sum was a great patriot, compared and the nathan hale, the revolutionary war hero and said that he would bring recognition to their son that he deserved despite the fact that the us military and government had refused even to award birch a purple heart because the us was not at war with the communists in 1945. robert welch never met birch and never visited china. but george and ethyl birch and they are with their children, holding a portrait of john, open to this proposition. ethyl birch gave welch material that she had been collecting for her home biography of her son. welch wrote a sort of a yahoo which was as much a political platform as it was a biography. it is a frustrating book. welch calls him a heroic young patriot who recognize the dangers of communism on before others. just echoing what no one had already said, the death was deliberate and unjustified killing and claimed that birch at sacr

robert welch was a business executive for the james welch candy company based out of boston. he was quite successful and was able to retire at the age of 60 and decided to get involved in politics. he, however, had decided not to run for political office. he actually tried that around 19479, 1950. ran for lieutenant governor of massachusetts. didn't do that well. so he decided to set up ad very can sy group that was -- advocacy group, that was very effective, popular and widespread at the grassroots level. his agenda was opposition to not only communism but opposition to big government, in a sense two sides of the same coin if you will. and if you were driving around the highways of the united states during the late '50s or early '60s, you might very well have noticed signs, billboards, saying, save our republic, impeach earl warren, chief justice of the supreme court. you would also see signs, saying, get the united states out of the united nations. so the birch society and robert welch represented and stood for tricks constitutionalism, states rights. this is why they oppos

fortunately, robert welch, for my purposes, robert welch was prolific. he was actually quite a brilliant man. he graduated from university of north carolina at the age of 17, attended the u.s. naval academy for two years, attended harvard law school for two years and they decided, got married and became a businessman. but welch produced reams of material, had a monthly magazine, still lives, and magazine called new american that the birch society puts a. produced no end of lectures, videos, materials for it. the local members to discuss and review and so forth. he gave some speeches. all of this is pretty widely covered in a meeting at the time so the plan of material, more than enough about the birch society itself, which i do we think you the story to explain how and why the name of birch was used. >> i'm going to slip any question, co-chairs prerogative. i'm surprised about the difficulty in finding a publisher. i find it absolutely engaging story. i mean it held my attention from start to finish and judy recover a john birch very different from the o

we will be back on wednesday with joe devito and sam roberts and matt welch. >>> was her gps trying toher? short answer, yes. it was. a canadian woman following her directions from her car's gps missed a turn and ended up driving down a boat ramp into a very cold ontario bay. the car's momentum carried it pretty far. the woman had to swim about a hundred feet to shore. one onlooker noted that the boat ramp is pretty wide and could easily bemis taken for a street. the car was towed out, but is not repairable. no word on the health of the gps uh -- device. is this a case of -- i know we can't talk about how women and men are different behind the while, but i feel women put too much trust in their gps. >> clearly this woman did. this woman in front of you would not have done such a thing. i take my driving seriously. >> i think, tim, i like that -- i like the gps. i used to love printing out my maps. but i feel like -- i am going by women in my life. if it says to take a turn she will take the turn. afternoon if there is a corn field there. >> well, they deserve to die. let's be honest, g

roberts. he loves freedom so much the flag wraps himself in him. reason magazine editor matt welch. and hills wit is so sharp it can engrave a statue. sitting next to me, joe devito. let's start the show. hillary clinton has locked down the ugly women vote. that's according to ed redell a surrogate for her campaign. during an interview the former pennsylvania governor talked about donald trump's appeal to suburban voters in pa. will trump have the working class? sure. for every one he loses to every one and a half women. you can't be a 10 if you are are flat chested. that will haunt him. there are more ugly women than attractive women and people take it permanently. he does president like the uglies. >> ed redell, shoutout to the ladies. i think he wrote an ad for trump where trump will say only the best looking people vote for me. it just goes to show what the democrats think of the voters. not only are you working class, but you are ugly too. >> he is playing right into trump's persona. make america attractive again. >> it is pennsylvania. can we stop pretending we don't know exac

robert: the french come back. the decisions are made by the allied powers of the french will have colonies back and thus begins the war. >> a momento to that, clark welcha company commander in battle,who survived the he hadied a tommy gun gotten from the vietcong soldier in an earlier battle. tommy gunse of the showing that odd connection over the decade. war, ane end of the agreement is made. a reluctant ho chi minh excepts a temporary partition of vietnam with a clear understanding that there will be a free election in 10 years to determine this. marilyn: election was to be in two years. ho chi minh wanted it in months. a compromise was two years. time was criticized at the for compromising but you have to understand the chinese had visions, and the anon's historical imagery with china, ho chi minh famously said i french shit smell for six years then eat chinese shit. promise -- the promised election was not held the war results, french are driven out in less than 16 years and america enters. let's set that aside for a second. >> about the panel was about the antiwar movement. and iy have a few minutes do not think it is worth rehashing the history w