re: #89 dragonath

Uh, I don’t think Nixon liked competition.

It was less that than Schmitz attacking Nixon for having gone to China. Nixon was disinclined to be accused of disloyalty by the congressman who represented the district containing Nixon’s home, San Clemente. So he recruited a moderate who edged Schmitz out 1972.

Schmitz was ultimately removed from his leadership position with the John Birch Society for repeatedly making openly Anti-Semitic comments.