sufficiently respected and known among at least the older generation of conservatives, but there is a frank meyer society here in washington, a group of leaders who keep his memory alive. they will be meeting on monday night, and i will be speaking to them. meyer has been described by rusher as the intellectual ingenuity the conservative moment. he, too, was in ex-communist, as burnham was. a passionate, activists. -- a passionate, conservative activist. rusher even told me that meyer had once been a militant communist, and a militant republican. " they are not all that different, it except for what they believe." rusher had a tremendous attraction to and respect for frankly political obsession. , meyer was both intellectually obsessed, he had a house literally full of books, it is hard to imagine or describe it. books were absolutely everywhere. so extremely intellectual, but also extremely political. as david keene, the longtime chairman of the american conservative union put it to me, conservatives in the 1960's, you go to the midwest, and perhaps two weeks later you get busted , out of bed by