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Mar 20, 1950 TIME #ColdWar In the Senate’s marble-columned caucus room, Wisconsin’s pugnacious Senator Joe McCarthy glared defiantly at his tormentors. On the witness table in front of him lay the case histories with which he promised to prove his charge that the State Department was infested with card-carrying Communists and their friends. https://time.com/archive/6796163/investigations-the-battle-of-the-files/
Mar 27, 1950 TIME #ColdWar In the six weeks since he charged the State Department with harboring “57 card-carrying Communists,” Wisconsin’s Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy had reaped whole scrapbooks full of scare-head publicity. But, despite congressional immunity, and the urging of a Senate committee set up especially to investigate his charges, he had not named one Communist, or produced any new evidence. https://time.com/archive/6607615/investigations-mccarthy-at-the-barricades/
Mar 31, 1950 #ColdWar President Truman accused some Republican Senators of helping Russia by trying to sabotage US foreign policy. Mr Truman made his criticism when a reporter asked if he thought that Senator McCarthy was getting anywhere with his charges of Communism in the State Department. The President said he thought that Senator McCarthy was the Kremlin's greatest asset in the United States.
