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Despite the fact that Hunt's fortune had been secured by government intervention into the oil market, Hunt's childhood education in the absolutes of social Darwinian philosophy disposed him to conservative politics. In fact, Hunt became one of the most reactionary political figures in the United States. In 1951 he founded and financed Facts Forum, a propaganda agency for the far Right that disseminated pamphlets (Hitler was a Liberal, Traitors in the Pulpit) and radio programs attacking communism, liberalism, the United Nations, the State Department, Judaism, and the Catholic Church. Facts Forum and its board (which included Hunt; Norman Vincent Peale; Sears, Roebuck chairman Robert E. Wood; and actor John Wayne) promoted Christianity, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Hunt wrote off the expenses of running Facts Forum as a donation to charity.
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