15-06-2018, 09:50 PM
Mr Lateer:
McCarthy was not a leader in the foreign policy school of the USA.
What McCarthy did was to say that, after the Rosenberg and Hiss cases, that the Russians had infiltrated various American institutions including, our government. In other words, Truman and Acheson had been very lax in security precautions about the State Department and defense plants, and had very bad judgment about people they hired.
McCarthy then extended this to Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers. And this is when he ran into trouble: when he started going after the Army and the CIA. For example, Allen Dulles refused to turn over Bill Bundy for questioning to his committee. And then McCarthy imploded on national TV at the hands of Joseph Welch during the Army McCarthy hearings. It was a domestic issue, not a foreign policy one.
As per JFK, look the final vote tally was something like 66-26 in favor of censure. What would have been the point of Kennedy coming down in a hospital bed or in a robe and crutches? Especially when his brother had started the thing in the first place.
McCarthy was not a leader in the foreign policy school of the USA.
What McCarthy did was to say that, after the Rosenberg and Hiss cases, that the Russians had infiltrated various American institutions including, our government. In other words, Truman and Acheson had been very lax in security precautions about the State Department and defense plants, and had very bad judgment about people they hired.
McCarthy then extended this to Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers. And this is when he ran into trouble: when he started going after the Army and the CIA. For example, Allen Dulles refused to turn over Bill Bundy for questioning to his committee. And then McCarthy imploded on national TV at the hands of Joseph Welch during the Army McCarthy hearings. It was a domestic issue, not a foreign policy one.
As per JFK, look the final vote tally was something like 66-26 in favor of censure. What would have been the point of Kennedy coming down in a hospital bed or in a robe and crutches? Especially when his brother had started the thing in the first place.