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Viguerie explained that he met Franke in the late 1950s in Washington, DC, where Franke was writing for "[[Human Events]]" magazine. At about the same time Franke had, together with his roomate [[Douglas Caddy]], founded the [[Students for Goldwater]] organization. Shortly thereafter Franke returned to his native Houston, and worked with Viguerie, an intense anti-communist, who was chairman of the Harris County Young Republicans. By 1961 Franke merged his Students for Goldwater organization with the [[Young Americans for Freedom]] organization that had been founded, according to Viguerie, in the fall of 1960 at the Sharon, Connecticut estate of Bill Buckley. Within a year or two, through the influence of Franke, Viguerie was executive secretary of YAF.

==Other SourceWatch resources==

*[[Young America's Foundation]]

*[[National Journalism Center]]