“His primary achievement has been in confusing the public mind, as between the internal and the external threats of Communism. We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men. [...]
We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn’t create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it—and rather successfully.” – Edward R Murrow regarding Joe McCarthy
- When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.
- Ray Bradbury, in Nation (2 May 1953), and quoted in “About Fahrenheit 451 : Historical Influences for Fahrenheit 451″
- Nothing would probably please him more than to get the publicity that would be generated by a public repudiation by the President.
- US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, on declining to publicly confront McCarthy’s strategies, as quoted in The Party of Fear (1988), by David Harry Bennett, p. 304
- I will not get in the gutter with that guy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, as quoted in Robert J. Donovan (1956) Eisenhower: The Inside Story
- The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
- Senator J. William Fulbright (D-Arkansas), as quoted in Enough Rope (1969) by Arthur Vivian Watkins
- This is the first time in my experience, and I was ten years in the Senate, that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.… Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.
- Harry S. Truman, drafted response (probably unsent) to a telegram received on 11 February 1950. [1]
- Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
- Joseph Welch, in response to McCarthy accusing Fred Fisher, one of the employees of Welch’s law firm, of being a Communist. (Transcripts and audio of the exchange between Welch and McCarthy
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flash says:
“This is the first time in my experience, and I was ten years in the Senate, that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.” Harry Truman
And how dare anyone try to expose the influence of international Banksters and Stalinists on the foreign policy of the US government .
I wonder if it was Hari Kari Trumans ten year in the Senate that drove him to mass murder hundreds of thousand of innocent Japanese civilians and commit 40 thousand American men to their deaths in the frozen killing fields of Korea, My uncle was one of only two to survive his Ranger company.
key words here: known and members
I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.
Joseph R. McCarthy
How much of the fuckwad of foreign policy now threatening the very fabric of this Republic can be attributed to Stalin’s Agents embedded in State Dept ?
Isn’t this what the witch hunt on Wiki Leaks is all about…..not wanting to embarrass some butt fucked politician ?
I’m sure Harry and his gaggle of game boy goon didn’t want to face the bright light that McCarthy was shining on their nest of vermin.
JFK’s feelings became abundantly clear during a reunion banquet at Harvard.
When an after-dinner speaker remarked that
he was proud Harvard had never graduated an Alger Hiss
and even prouder that it had never produced a Joe McCarthy,
JFK exploded in anger.
Rising at his seat, he shouted,
“How dare you couple the name of a great American patriot with that of a traitor!”
The other diners lapsed into shocked silence,
and JFK departed without hearing the rest of the program.
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur
It was the Truman Administration’s State Department that McCarthy accused of harboring 205 (or 57 or 81) “known Communists,” and Truman’s Secretary of Defense George Catlett Marshall was the target of some of McCarthy’s most colorful rhetoric. Marshall was also Truman’s former Secretary of State and had been Army Chief of Staff during World War II. Marshall was a highly respected statesman and general, best remembered today as the architect of the Marshall Plan for post-war reconstruction of Europe, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. McCarthy made a lengthy speech on Marshall, later published in 1951 as a book titled America’s Retreat From Victory: The Story Of George Catlett Marshall. Marshall had been involved in American foreign policy with China, and McCarthy charged that Marshall was directly responsible for the loss of China to Communism. In the speech McCarthy also implied that Marshall was guilty of treason;[43] declared that “if Marshall were merely stupid, the laws of probability would dictate that part of his decisions would serve this country’s interest”;[43] and most famously, accused him of being part of “a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous venture in the history of man.”[43]
During the Korean War, when President Truman dismissed General Douglas MacArthur, McCarthy charged that Truman and his advisors must have planned the dismissal during late-night sessions when “they’ve had time to get the President cheerful” on Bourbon and Benedictine. McCarthy declared, “The son of a bitch should be impeached.”[44]
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8th December 2010 at 8:09 pm