Welch's the Birch Society

Welch wanted to establish a speaker's bureau and a national network of reading rooms where the best anti-communist books could be purchased or consulted. He also wanted to expand the reach of conservative periodicals such as American opinion, the Dan Smoot Report, and William F. Buckley Jr.'s National Review. "He foresaw what needed to be done and he was really the first guy to proceed with doing it"