CHARGE AND COUNTER CHARGE, McCarthy's hearings on communism. Was he a mad man or a prophet? 

Owen Lattimore was lifelong Communist Sympathizer, (“Symps” in the day’s parlance). It was in part through Lattimore’s influence that China was lost to Mao. If you visit the Korean and Vietnam War Memorials in DC, the names etched into the walls are the legacies of Lattimore’s efforts. Without Communists in power in Peking, there would have been no Korean or Vietnam wars.

The more I learn about him the more I like him. A very serious man!

So ironic, what we know today!

I'm currently writing a speech on America and where we as a country go next. I've decided to play off McCarthy here. In 1963 (I believe) he stood before congress and read them a warning. A list of 40 (ish, I forget how many exactly) goals to reach for a communist country. Its quite disturbing reading it 60 years down the road when so much has changed and a lot of things on the list have unfortunately happened. So I'm basing my speech of it because if we as a country continue in the direction we're headed, we're heading straight towards a communist country. Unless we unite and try to stop it. United we stand, divided we fall...

Mccarthy was right but the threat was greater than even he understood.

I wish there were an impartially compiled "batting average" for McCarthy's accusations, including any changes based on what we have learned from Venona, etc. He certainly was onto Hiss. I read "Blacklisted by History," but too many commentators either loved or hated McCarthy. I'd like a more phlegmatic analysis, with the emotion taken out.

You'll rarely see an example of someone so skillfully outlawyering another. Welch was was a brilliant litigator and his knowledge of the law is so much greater than McCarthy's. Cohn was a good lawyer, clearly cagier than McCarthy, and a better criminal lawyer than a civil one, but he too was out lawyered here. Cohn kept his mouth shut as often as he could, and so escaped with his legal reputation. McCarthy, by contrast, lost any legal, and any political reputation he had before these hearings. It was an extraordinary error for the committee to go after the US Army. Or perhaps by contrast, a better idea by the US Army to hire Welch. The disparity in knowledge of the law, the disparity in the ability to wield that knowledge is remarkable. The US Army did well in hiring Welch. He damn near had the entire committee behind him by the end. Senator Symington handled himself well too. McCarthy vainly calling out accusations as the committee leaves was a powerful image, indelibly injuries to McCarthy. The lesson ? Don't slander the US Army.

We know now what perp Hoover was

Mc Carthy ,today would be amazed just how many Communists were in the US government. I have a Russian book here written by a Pavel Sudoplatov, who was entirely unknown outside of moscow but was the big cheese of the NKVD then KGB .In his book(written in 1994) he gave the names of many soviet operatives working in the USA and just how far back they went . In fact, years before WW2 . How else were they able to explode a nuke when the rest of the world had no idea they even had nuclear potential ? Todays holly wood is infested with communists and many don't hide their politics. Also, we can also see that the Generals appointed by obama are all leftists. Mc Carthy didn't have the internet .If he did he would have raked in dozens of them .

McCarthy was a great man

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Unfortunately we have lost this battle. We need Trump back.