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You may have eaten aSugar Daddy candy bar at one time, but did you know that the candy was inventedbyThe JohnBirch Society’s founder Robert Welch 33 years before he created theJBS? After manufacturing candy, Welch saw a greater need than enjoying leisuretime: combating the evil forces that threaten our country, freedom, and lives. Andhe did just that! By forming an organization that seeks men and women of goodcharacter, humane conscience, and religious ideals, America would be muchdifferent today without the influence of Robert Welch. At an age when mostpeople are enjoying their retirement, Robert Welch decided to forego a life ofleisure and create an organization to promote what he saw as ideals ofAmericanism in order to battle the overwhelming wave of communism he saw takingover numerous countries. He had already seen communism’s prominent influence inAmerica throughout his lifetime. While his detractors would have rather seenRobert Welch sit idly by in a rocking chair, he would have none of it. Hedevoted the rest of his life from age 58 on to help secure to futuregenerations the freedoms he had enjoyed, and to give them the educational toolsthey would need to use to hold onto those freedoms. He recognized and was fondof saying that “All we need to succeed is sufficient understanding.” Based onthis, JBS was founded as a member-based educational organization designed toreach out to others to educate them on the original intent of the foundingfathers, getting back to the Constitution, and why the United States wasestablished as a Republic and not a democracy. He had a knack for boiling downcomplex ideas, thoughts, and problems into easily understood stories andsolutions. As a voracious reader, learner, and man of high intellect, this camenaturally to him. A child prodigy, he entered high school at age 10 andgraduated near the top of his class two years later. He then entered theUniversity of North Carolina and graduated in 1916 at age 16. Next, in themidst of World War I, he began studies at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.When World War I ended a couple years later, he left the Naval Academy anddipped his creative toe into journalism, becoming a syndicated columnist. Ashort time later, he decided to take a Merchant Marine position. Unfortunately,Congress ended the program seven days before he was to leave. He then knew hehad to find an occupation that would allow him to flourish while at the sametime permitting him to make time for his academic interests. In the fall of1919, he enrolled in Harvard Law School to learn the free enterprise system. By1922, he had had enough of the school and Marxist Professor (and later SupremeCourt Justice) Felix Frankfurter. He left Harvard and launched the Oxford CandyCompany. In 1926, he invented the Sugar Daddy candy and sales skyrocketed. Heleft the company he worked so hard to build after a dispute with management andstarted again. Eventually, he ended up working for his brother at the James O.Welch Company from 1935 until he “retired” in 1956. Two years later he foundedThe John Birch Society. He had an extremely sharp memory, which enabled him torecite poetry for hours that he had last read 50 years earlier! But that memoryand his very deep knowledge of all things historical could also be a hindrance,for he could hardly give a short answer to a question, which tended toinfuriate those in the media looking for quick sound bites. He guided JBSthrough its first three decades until his passing in 1985. There is so muchmore to Robert Welch than can be provided in this short account. To those whoknew him and worked with him, Robert Welch was truly a fascinating and lovingman who wanted nothing more than to preserve freedom and future prosperity forlater generations. We invite you to learn more about him by readingThe Blue BookandThe Politician.