Phyllis Schlafly, ‘Mrs. America,’ Was a Secret Member of the John Birch Society thedailybeast.com/phyllis-schlaf… Robert Welch referred to Schlafly as “a very loyal member of the Birch Society” in the February 1960 issue of the #JBS Bulletin #abortion 
Schlafly resigned from the JBS in 1964 because she did not want her new book, A Choice Not An Echo, associated with the John Birch Society. Also, Goldwater campaign execs thought her JBS relationship might damage rather than help the Goldwater cause archive.org/details/schlaf…
By 1983 Schlafly had become a member of the Board of Governors of the (relatively) new Council for National Policy #ShadowNetwork. Recent discovery of documents in the Reagan Library provide us with the earliest reliable listing of CNP leaders and members archive.org/details/cnpjan…
