The Politician

Treason is an old word, yet Robert Welch argued it was the only one fit to describe what Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency meant for America. The Politician is not a biography in the conventional sense — it is an indictment. Welch begins with the fragile state of the Soviet empire in 1953, when Stalin’s death and uprisings across Eastern Europe left Communist power teetering. At that moment, Eisenhower entered the White House. Instead of pressing the advantage, his administration repeatedly stabilized the enemy.

Welch traces the arc: Eisenhower’s rise from lieutenant colonel to “Supreme Commander,” his record in “Operation Keelhaul,” and the carefully stage-managed campaign that vaulted him into the presidency. Each chapter unpacks not isolated blunders but a consistent pattern. Policies of containment, compromises with Moscow, and appointments of globalist advisers reinforced the very forces America was told it was fighting. Evidence drawn from military records, foreign-aid reports, and diplomatic decisions builds the case that this was no coincidence.

The text moves through Eisenhower as “Anti-anti-Communist,” “Pro-Communist,” “One-Worlder,” and ultimately “The Word Is Treason.” Welch shows how Republican labels and patriotic rhetoric masked actions that advanced world government and undercut national sovereignty. For him, the danger was not just Eisenhower himself but the network of planners and propagandists that used his popularity to disarm resistance to their agenda.

Originally circulated in private among a handful of trusted readers, The Politician remained unpublished for years. Its survival into print is itself testimony to Welch’s intent: to arm Americans with the uncomfortable facts others wished suppressed. For readers concerned with sovereignty, constitutional integrity, and the history of globalist influence in U.S. policy, this work remains as jarring and necessary as when it was first drafted. Welch presses the issue plainly — freedom or submission, truth or deception — and he names names. (2002ed, 544pp, pb)