I hope you given a thorough examination of the JFK myth. If you haven’t do so. Start with Thomas Reeves book “A Question of Character : A Life of John F Kennedy” on JFK.
McCarthy was very close to the Kennedy family, gave RFK a job.
I think the main negative thing I can find on McCarthy was a drinking problem. Something probably all old time politicians had back then !
The media’s main job is to manipulate not inform as they would have you believe. They can inform if you can look past the manipulation.
I absolutely have reexamined the JFK myth.
By the way, I do try to give credit where credit is due. Truman did approve the dropping of the bomb. He did the Berlin Airlift. He did recognize Israel. JFK did things get the space program going and he did give some tax relief. Things like that.
McCarthy was a devout Catholic, and that put him in the Kennedy circle apart from party politics and was even the Godfather to RFK’s first child, Kathleen. And when McCarthy died, the Catholic church went all out with a Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass was celebrated before more than 100 priests and 2,000 others at Washington’s St. Matthew’s Cathedral.
During his career, he was known a a drink nurser, not a drunk (regardless of the slanders from the Left on this) but it is a fact that after his unfair censure, he drank quite heavily and it did contribute to his early death.