But then we all knew that :)
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McCarthy had a few problems working against him. One being that he was a latecomer to exposing Communist agents, and another that he was doing so for political advantage.
Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers had already exposed their former comrades, and had testified to little personal advantage. McCarthy was largely capitalizing on the revelations that these two former Communists had brought to the attention of the American public.
Worse for McCarthy was his choice of assistants. Robert Kennedy wasn’t a problem, but Roy Cohn led McCarthy to pick the fight with the Army that led to his undoing.
The Kennedys remained loyal friends to Joe McCarthy right up to this death.
I have been reading this book and I can’t put it down. It reads like a thriller. I am utterly astounded at the behavior of the DemocRATS. They sided with the enemies of this country and still do 50 years later. Their stated purpose in their own memos was to impeach and discredit McCarthy rather than actually find the commies in the State Dept. You would think you are reading a novel because no American should have been coddling enemies and traitors but they were from Harry Truman on down. This book is MUST reading for anyone who wants to see that nothing much changes in politics
“New Book Shows McCarthy Was Right”
A presentation by the author got aired a few times on BookTV a few months
ago.
Here are links to the BookTV (C-Span2 weekends).
AFAIK, the red “Watch Now” button at the second link will let you
hear/listen to the presentation in Real Player.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929323/posts
http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=8901&SectionName=Public+Lives&PlayMedia=No