# Linda Chavez Conservative commentator and former Reagan administration official who served as president of [[U.S. English]], the English-only group founded by [[John Tanton]]. She resigned in 1988 after Tanton's racist WITAN memos leaked to the press and it emerged that U.S. English had taken funding tied to the distributor of *[[The Camp of the Saints]]*. In a 2007 *National Review* piece she warned fellow conservatives to be wary of "problematic allies" such as [[FAIR]], which she called the most influential immigration organization in the country. In the vault as an early conservative defector who publicly broke with the nativist network. ## See Also - [[John Tanton]] - [[U.S. English]] - [[FAIR]]