In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand wrote, “Who is John Galt?” Today, I ask, “Who was Robert Welch?”

To some, he was a genius, a child prodigy who was reading at age 2 and attended the University of North Carolina when he was 12. He created the Sugar Daddy and other children’s candies. He founded the John Birch Society, the most successful anti-Communist organization in the history of the United States.