Yes, excellent book, and Evans is 100% correct. Harry Dexter White was a COMMIE AGENT and was the #2 man at Treasury. McCarthy, though, was late. Many of these people had been removed or quietly resigned when McCarthy finally began to call them out. A few held on through the Truman administration.
I meant to read it when it came out, but it slipped my mind. I was discussing Millard Tydings with another FReeper the other week and that reminded me to finally check the book out. Sad but true, as you said, that by the time of the Wheeling speech in 1950, permanent damage was done. It was just a perfect storm of willful Communist infiltration, bureaucratic incompetence and bungling, naivete, friends-protecting-friends, see-no-evil, and Democrat partisanship that put us into the fix we’ve been in ever since. Makes one wonder where we’d be today had we never had the FDR & Truman Administrations to enable this horror. A Free China, a Soviet Union that might’ve fallen decades ahead of time, no Communist spread in S.E. Asia or elsewhere, Cuba, et al, the cultural rot in this country... no situation where Emperor Zero could’ve claimed his throne... incredible just to imagine.