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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com230WHO IS JOHN GALT? 1957–1968strident demands, socialist rhetoric, and street action reminded her alltoo much of the Bolsheviks. Objectivists instead sought to protest thedraft through legal means. Rand’s personal lawyer, Henry Mark Holzer,began representing clients who had been drafted. He and several otherObjectivists organized an antidraft road show that visited several cities,presenting the Objectivist argument against the draft as a violation ofindividual rights. 38Rand’s opposition to the draft cemented her popularity on campusand separated her further from conservatives. Increasingly the VietnamWar was making the differences between libertarians and conservativesclear. Conservatives saw the war as an important conflict in theworldwide struggle against Communism; if anything, they urged thatthe war be pursued more vigorously. By contrast, libertarians doubtedthe war’s relevancy to U.S. interests, and like Rand they saw the draftas an unacceptable violation of individual rights. In 1966 several professorsat the University of Chicago called a conference to discuss theSelective Service System. A number of libertarians, including the economistMilton Friedman, made principled arguments against the draft.Rand publicized similar ideas to her student following. One young followerrecalled, “It was not necessary to accept the antiquated bourgeoisbaggage of respect for one’s elders, support for an unwinnable war, orabstention from sex. Instead, liberty could be justified, youthfully andgloriously, by the triumphant words of John Galt to a mediocre world,resonating through the campus rebellion: ‘Get the hell out of my way!’ ” 39Goldwater’s 1964 campaign for president had given Rand her first surgeof popularity among conservative youth. Now her opposition to thedraft created a second rush of enthusiasm for her ideas.A good index of her popularity came in October 1967, when NationalReview featured Rand on its cover, rendered as a stained glass windowcomplete with dollar sign insignia, under the wry headline “TheMovement to Canonize Ayn Rand.” The article was essentially a hit piececommissioned by William F. Buckley, who had grown concerned withRand’s perennial appeal among young conservatives. Buckley told hischosen author, M. Stanton Evans, that he wanted a “definitive” pieceon Ayn Rand that would “demonstrate to people of commonsense thather ideological and philosophical presumptions make her an inadequatementor.” Whittaker Chambers’s message bore repeating to a new