Glenn Archer

Career

He petitioned the Federal Communication Commission to deny television licenses to Jesuits because they were an alien organization. In 1960, Archer entered into a dialog with presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to assess his views on church-state relations. In a letter to Archer, Kennedy assured him of his support for the First Amendment.

Kennedy later responded to concerns about his faith in his famous speech before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered September 12, 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston Texas.

In his memoir The Dream Lives On, Archer praised Kennedy"s views on Church-State separation, saying they were the best of any president since Thomas Jefferson.

Achievements

• Furthermore, he asked the House Un-American Activities Committee to investigate the intentions, scope and achievements of Vatican espionage in the United States, charging that the Catholic clergy had learned American secrets hardly anyone except the president knows.

Politics

lieutenant was under Archer"s tutelage that the Roman Catholic hierarchy was dubbed in 1949 as being more dangerous and clever than communism.