‘A native of the Texas Hill Country, he settled in Dallas, the center of ultra-right-wing advocacy, much of it funded by H.L. Hunt, the billionaire oil tycoon. Hunt, who believed that he belonged to a genetically superior strain of humanity and that voting rights should be apportioned by wealth, told [Maj. Gen. Edwin] Walker there was a “legion of potential followers who would welcome you as a new type of Commander in Chief.”’

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