California's mild, patient Senator Tom Kuchel was fed up. A moderate Republican from the state where Chief Justice Earl Warren was once a Republican Governor, Kuchel was tired of getting obviously organized demands for the impeachment of Warren on the ground that he gave "aid and comfort to the Communist conspiracy." By Kuchel's triangulation, the attacks were inspired by the name-calling, semisecret John Birch Society* (TIME. March 10). which has made Warren's impeachment its No. 1 goal.
On the Senate floor, Kuchel attacked the society by name, saving his hardest words for Founder...
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