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Buchanan's "Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles that Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Washington, DC, a go-go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When are we
going hear in the news about a call from President Trump announcing a
Presidential Medal of Freedom, an ambassadorship to the Holy See, and an
honorary day for Patrick J Buchanan as president flown in by Army helicopter to
hold court in the Oval Office?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s the
least that one could ask for America’s leading conservative, New Hampshire
Primary winner, and speechwriter, special adviser, confidant to three
presidents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Patrick J.
Buchanan’s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nixons-White-House-Wars-President/dp/1101902841/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1585621204&sr=1-2" target="_blank"><i>“Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles that Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever”</i></a> is the continuing autobiography of
Paddy Joe as much as it is Nixon biography. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Where can
this dynamo with a weekly column, appearances, books, and Church life find the
time to get over to a Wegman’s or the Delmarva?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My
compliments to the book editors for its clean layout, ample and easy-to-revisit
bold face subtitles, rising tension and nice wind-down as the story zips to the
departures we knew coming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Nixon’s
White House Wars” was neatly preceded by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Comeback-Richard-Defeat-Majority/dp/0553418637/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=" target="_blank"><i>“The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority.”</i></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Buchanan</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> writes:</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“On January 27 </span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[1973],<i> New York Times publisher
Arthur O. Sulzberger, saying he had been looking for a conservative columnist
for some time, announced he had hired William Safire of the White House staff.
On top of the news summary item reporting the selection, <span style="color: red;">Nixon scrawled, ‘H [Haldeman] & Buchanan – Safire a
Conservative? Be sure to inform </span></i><span style="color: red;">Human Events<i>!’”<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My thought: Safire
wore it well. I for one saw him slip into liberal mode only once in a column.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Buchanan’s the man.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Buchanan as
a father of modern conservatism was the beleaguered priest keeper of the flame
inside the center of the world, the White House, itself surrounded by a mean,
unsmiling, eastern liberal establishment that holds commoners in contempt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He had a
vision for Nixon and the country just as he does today. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The “Silent
Majority” and “Southern Strategy” were Buchanan originals, leading Nixon by the time of the 1968 presidential campaign to capture votes of the many northern Catholics, blue-collar workers, and southerners outraged over an Asian war we weren't allowed or supposed to win, and the spiraling violent, leftward,
hate-America tilt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Buchanan -- who had stood aside Norman Mailer in Chicago -- eye-witnessed a sea of radicals attacking their fellow Democrats, Mayor
Daley’s police, at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Buchanan himself many times faced anti-war protesters then coming after Nixon who was just
getting started healing the land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the “silly, unnecessary” Watergate break-in by a handful of Nixon people,
Buchanan had strongly advised against doing it. (Then again, previous
presidents had their wiretappers and bag men.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For Nixon --
who in 1960 against Kennedy lost the closest presidential race of the century; lost
the California governor’s race in 1962 and felt politically dead; came back to
life to lose in the 1964 presidential primary but campaigned with abandon for
nominee Barry Goldwater which would pay conservative dividends; then won at
last in 1968 by driving a wedge between rad-libs and conservatives of the
Democrat party; won reelection by a 49-state landslide in 1972; brought a
conclusion to the Civil Rights era; bombed the hell out of Hanoi and VC
sanctuaries to ease us out of the war; clamped down on organized anarchists; went on a journalistic and Agnew offensive against an increasingly
hostile media – winning big should have been enough.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Buchanan,
you’re the only extremist I know who has a sense of humor,” said Nixon. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Inside
a White House surrounded by lib-mods he survived partly because most of the
time he had direct access to an open-minded president. </span></div>
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of the 20<sup>th</sup> century.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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writes to us conservatives about Nixon: “He is not one of us.” A genuine
moderate perhaps? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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liberal-leaning household with Quaker roots, Nixon, regardless of human
inconsistencies, sought world peace through strength. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was high
stakes in 1948 while nailing Soviet agent Alger Hiss and a courageous
Congressman Nixon of the House Committee on Un-American Activities would enjoy
farmhouse conversations near Westminster, Maryland, with the ex-communist
turned Quaker, <i>Time</i> magazine editor, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Witness-Cold-Classics-Whittaker-Chambers-ebook/dp/B00PSSEK8W/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?ie=UTF8&aaxitk=IEDDL6nlC2DcHVI5xyW4pg&hsa_cr_id=4593971620601&ref_=sb_s_sparkle" target="_blank">the witness Whittaker Chambers</a>.</span></div>
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the “big tent” philosophy in place since Vice-President under Eisenhower (an
apolitical Eisenhower by choice could have run as Republican or Democrat) loading
up on liberals as well as conservative Democrats for campaigns and later
administration. Henry Kissinger became Secretary of State. John Connally, Nixon’s
personal hope for next president, Treasury. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Douglas MacArthur, we needed you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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points out that the same crowd who got us into Vietnam tried to make it all Nixon’s war. Buchanan, as adviser to the president,
wouldn’t have it. </span><br />
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in massive US troop withdrawals at the same time he went big across the South
Vietnam border into Cambodia and Laos by 1970 and cleaned out the VC
sanctuaries. US special operations of course had already been slugging it out in those neighboring countries since the 1950's. (As a youth I remember the torrents of praise on the streets of
Pennsylvania for Nixon. I recall his remarkable commanding image on TV using wall maps as he spoke to the nation.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Vietnam
veterans over the years I have heard question why we didn’t bomb out Hanoi and
mine Haiphong much earlier. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Buchanan
quotes Nixon in an interview, “I remember a conversation I had with [Johnson]
back in 1969 at breakfast, and he was berating Harriman. He said, ‘That
son-of-a-bitch <b>Harriman</b> told me twelve times when I
stopped the bombing that if we’d only stop it he knew that the <b>Russians</b>
would help and the Vietnamese would cooperate, and it didn’t do any good. <b>Every
single bombing halt was a terrible mistake.’” </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Too bad Johnson didn’t ignore
Harriman after one or two halts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Halt …
mistake… Where else have we seen that series of Washington-directed slow-down-the-advance orders? With George
Patton in Germany, Mark Clark in Italy, Chiang Kai-Shek in China.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Averell
Harriman. Former ambassador to Moscow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Betrayal-Assault-Nations-Character/dp/0312630786/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1585622194&sr=8-2" target="_blank">Harriman, at the Yalta summit sellout, alongside Alger Hiss and the enfeebled President Roosevelt had facilitated Stalin’s Far East expansion plans giving Stalin our continuing Lend-Lease foreign aid which also helped plunder Manchuria and assist Mao by the backdoor. </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Harriman negotiated
the 1962 Laos Agreement nonsense in which the US would respect "neutrality" of Laos and Cambodia
while the US fought in the artificial country of south Vietnam bordering on the
17<sup>th</sup> parallel (DMZ).</span><br />
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again.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Believing
we had thrown a friend and ally over the side to fraternize with enemies of all
we believed in, with some of the greatest mass murderers in human history, I
made up my mind on the plane to resign.”</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> [Thankfully he didn’t.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Reading
the joint communique Henry had negotiated, I was angry, disgusted and ashamed.
In stating the US position, Henry had begun with such milquetoast as “No
country should claim infallibility for itself and each country should be
prepared to re-examine its own attitude for the common good.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Look, I understand that when you
stand in the light of great worldly powers, you can get giddy.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nixon, </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">theatrically not unlike Churchill at
Yalta<b>, </b>toasted and said:<b><i> “let us start a long march together. . .<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There
is no reason for us to be enemies. Neither of us seeks the territory of the
other; neither of us seeks domination over the other; neither of us seeks to
stretch out our hands and rule the world.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Chairman
Mao has written: ‘so many deeds cry out to be done, and always urgently. The world rolls on. Time passes. Ten thousand
years are too long. Seize the day. Seize the hour.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This
is the hour. This the day for our two peoples to rise to the heights of
greatness which can build a new and better world.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If only The Monkees would have been
there to sing Neil Diamond’s “A little bit me, a little bit you.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pEQ9P2sHVg" target="_blank">(Season 1,episode 31.)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Chiang Kai-Shek’s free Taiwan lost
our US recognition as a sovereign nation. It lost its seat on the UN Security
Council, was expelled from the General Assembly. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bring it back.</span></b></div>
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nixon got us
out of Johnson’s war, let Trump get us out of Nixon’s China “Frankenstein.”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With the
coronavirus upheaval, now is the time to bring manufacturing home.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Get Buchanan
over to the White House.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-is-right-america-was-built-on-tariffs-2018-08-15" target="_blank"></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-is-right-america-was-built-on-tariffs-2018-08-15" target="_blank">Abraham
Lincoln would be proud.</a></span><br />
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<br />Peter B. Hrycenkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082190294621012305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951158549292355225.post-83455917538566877262017-11-26T19:52:00.000-08:002017-11-29T16:13:13.347-08:00Historian David A. Nichols left out the real Joe McCarthy in "Ike and McCarthy." Read the Book Review on Amazon by Peter B. Hrycenko<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R2YBOG37XFLGSJ?ref_=glimp_1rv_cl" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R2YBOG37XFLGSJ?ref_=glimp_1rv_cl" border="0" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOKNyeRqcU8_jtph0hqbV2_IfstiGgI_AOm4R_3CyXp9uaADt4hX2Md3v5FvIj4g4YmhojeJU8i7txtC4xNflu6uHFUNnc4iodh1MXLAxzXlvP70-ooPlLpBk1PsGO-EJmibJZ0hsasA/s1600/Ike+and+McCarthy.png" /></a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R2YBOG37XFLGSJ?ref_=glimp_1rv_cl" target="_blank">Why would expert historian David A. Nichols in his “Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower’s Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy,”</a> avoid
acknowledging the finest book ever written on McCarthy? That is M. Stanton
Evans’ “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and
His Fight Against America’s Enemies.” A slight oversight perhaps?<br />
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What about the vast liberal network of NGO’s, of Big
Education, of Big Media that worked hand in glove with Ike’s liberal confidants
to prod a Republican president to attack a great American patriot, a Republican
champion in McCarthy? Nichols doesn’t bother with those important details. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Let me be clear; headlines of that day show many media and
education people just the same supported McCarthy and his work. He would not
have gained such power without them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Before anyone endeavors to read the entire “Ike and
McCarthy” hoping for historical truth, please start elsewhere. Yet I have some
good things to say about this book as we go.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What we don’t read in the book is that McCarthy’s primary goal
was to rid the federal payroll of Reds and fellow travelers which since
Roosevelt were subverting foreign policy and ultimately empowering Stalin and
Mao to imprison and kill our people overseas.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Consider the backdrop
of McCarthy’s early 1950’s.</b> Severe economic recession. A million casualties
from WWII. A see-saw bloodbath in Korea raging, 37,000 American men and women to
die, and another 100,000 wounded in a “conflict” we weren’t supposed to be seen
as winners lest we offend Stalin.
Thanks, Truman-Acheson.<o:p></o:p></div>
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a job, so re-enlisted rather than starve.<o:p></o:p></div>
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These same Americans had been reading the newspapers and
listening to radio. Nasty Joe McCarthy dared to expose the Truman White House,
State and Treasury country-clubbers who created a policy of appeasement and
squandered our wealth. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>Nichols writes that the
Left never forgave Eisenhower for defeating Adlai Stevenson in 1951. <o:p></o:p></b><br />
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Well, Eisenhower was a product of the New Deal
Roosevelt-Truman continuum, a consensus man and he aimed to please. He could
have run as Democrat or Republican, indistinguishable. He was drafted by the
Establishment, the reluctant old soldier, and groaned throughout “Ike and
McCarthy.” Surrounded by a staff of lib-mods with the best of intentions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Republican Senator
Joseph R. McCarthy burst onto the scene with his 1950 Wheeling WV about 57 red
security risks in the U S State Department.</b> Detractors to this day try to
change 57 to 81 or 205, to confuse us. Eyewitnesses never recalled a number.
There is no existing record of the number other than McCarthy’s personal
statement. Two of those numbers originated in State Department security risk
findings from 1946.<br />
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The State Department, later investigating itself – yes,
investigating itself -- agreed in the end McCarthy was right and that State was
loaded with subversives needing immediate attention.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile, Democrat Senator Pat McCarran’s own committee
would go over the same charges and more, forcing out 81 security risks from
State by 1954.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>A Truman-controlled
Millard Tydings senate committee began an investigation that turned against
McCarthy, slandering him, white-washing some big-name subversives, declaring
there were no communists in government.</b>
Maryland’s Tydings was soon voted out of office but not before the
Democrats began an illegal overreaching investigation into McCarthy’s life that
would go on for years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nichols sets the tone
in his Preface with <i>“Beginning in 1950,
Wisconsin’s junior senator, Joseph R. McCarthy, threw the United States into
turmoil with his reckless, unsubstantiated charges that a variety of citizens,
especially government employees, were Soviet agents. McCarthy’s disregard for
the truth, his insatiable appetite for headlines, and his willingness to damage
reputations turned ‘McCarthyism’ into an enduring epithet in our political
language.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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He has it wrong. Not surprising, the last thing the Eastern
Establishment wants broadcast is that Joseph R. McCarthy is truly America’s
Cold War Conscience.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Biographies on McCarthy usually admit that McCarthy, on the
social scene off the political stage, was liked by many, owing to his wit and
surprising gentleness. Historian Nichols doesn’t mention that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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unintentionally, through many of McCarthy’s own words, is a shrewd and eloquent
speaker with delicate humor, hardly a raving caveman. Something of a Patrick J.
Buchanan of old White House fame.</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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The conventional notion, the news soundbite, that McCarthy
called <i>everybody</i> who <i>opposed</i> him a communist is not true. On
television and radio, he was clear to praise rank and file Democrats as good
Americans in general. Yet, like any
fighting politician, he used hyperbole, particularly in response to vicious
colleagues.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>McCarthy ruined no
innocent people.</b> Rather, in his short time, he kept the nation safer.
That’s why he carried the 50-29 Gallup approval into early 1954.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Real history now shows McCarthy was right. We know this from the Army’s Venona
ultra-secret decrypts of USA-Russian-Chinese cable traffic, Russian defectors,
the FBI, a brief opening of the KGB archives, communist party escapees,
executive session senate hearings releases. Further, a treasure trove of hidden
notes and stories guarded by their retired US investigators came to light only
a few years ago.<br />
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US government secrecy shrouded that extensive record,
warping the vital understanding of our nation at war with communism.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Establishment types
would have us believe McCarthy cooked up charges on the run.</b> Hardly. Whistleblowers
came to McCarthy. His subcommittee work -- which lasted less than two years and
ended when the Democrats seized Congress in 1954 -- as well as the work of
other committees like McCarran (who died in 1954), used carefully examined
evidence covered up by the Establishment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Regarding George C. Marshall, Eisenhower’s former mentor and
boss. A number of observers have called Ike a “coward” and “yellow belly,” for
several things, most notably for not
speaking up for Marshall.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>On June 14, 1951
McCarthy in a rambling 70,000 word senate speech exposed “Yalta” Marshall for
his role in giving Eastern Europe to Stalin and China to Mao.</b> Right away,
the news wire gatekeepers in The Swamp had in a number of instances passed
along false reports on the speech, further outraging the American reader.
Further, who would take the time to read the whole speech.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>An absolute must read</b>:
to enlighten the public on the above, McCarthy spun off that speech with <b>books “America’s Retreat From Victory” and
“The Fight For America”</b> which expanded the speech with superb
documentation. Of course, both books are
out of print.<o:p></o:p></div>
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An open question: how many McCarthy critics have actually
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Facts are, Marshall was on the ground during the Marshall
Mission to China, executing foreign policy, sabotaging nationalist Chiang
Kai-Shek repeatedly and building up comrade Mao. US Lend-Lease funds were going to the
Russians, funding the Siberian Soviets who swept Manchuria and Korea. <b>What a marvel to see the 1949 victor’s parade
of Russian-trained Red Chinese, Manchurian, Korean and Japanese enter Beijing
in US vehicles.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Historian David A. Nichols
mentions several times Eisenhower worried about having mingled with communists
in Berlin (after Patton was held back from taking it) after the war, with
political insiders warning that McCarthy might use the red card on him. </b>I
don’t know what details Nichols had on that, he didn’t elaborate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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early 1945 in a letter signed by 50 US military intelligence officers with rank
of colonel and above, to not follow through with the then-secret Yalta accords
which favored Stalin at every turn, including Manchuria.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yalta in 1945, Marshall in China later.<br />
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inquiries about the estimated 20.000 US servicemen and women then in Russian
captivity. Again, not to upset the Russians. Reports from survivors decades
later placed a number of the forgotten victims in Siberia having mined
radioactive ore and mercury by hand.<o:p></o:p></div>
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launched “Operation Keelhaul” which forced up to 4,000,000 anti-communist men,
women and children mainly in Europe back to Joe Stalin at gun and bayonet
point.</b> There was even a bloody fight at Fort Dix and refugees were buried
there. Although Marshall and Eisenhower were following orders from above, the
record shows thank God that some US Army officers on the ground opposed it and
rescued refugees by hiding nationality.<o:p></o:p><br />
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his June 14, 1951 speech.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I had wanted to elaborate much on Nichol’s handling of the
saga of the Chip Bohlen confirmation Ambassador to Moscow hearing before the
senate. I’ll leave out extensive detail on what the FBI had on Bohlen which
could have disqualified him. At the same time of Bohlen’s ordeal the State
Department had quietly unloaded his brother in law.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bullitt, and Arthur Bliss Lane, former ambassador to Poland.<br />
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<b>Lane’s searing book, <i>“I Saw Poland Betrayed: An American
Ambassador Reports to the American People,” </i>blasts Chip Bohlen in 1946 for
pushing a $60,000,000 loan to communist Poland while the Poles were screaming don’t
do it.</b> Then it happened -- funding the hidden communist terror police (the
mask came off so to speak) which committed mass murder in purging nationalists
and deporting minorities to the USSR.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As one opposing senator Everett Dirksen said so well, “I
reject Yalta, so I reject Yalta men.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Historian Nichols has
another omission about as unforgivable as leaving out M Stanton Evans’ work.
Little said about McCarthy’s famed attorney Edward Bennett Williams at the
McCarthy censure hearings. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The senate kangaroo court was not a court of law. Edward
Bennett Williams knocked down all the charges so there were none standing.
After – yes, after -- the hearings concluded, the senate piled on one charge
“conduct unbecoming” to make the “condemnation” stick.<br />
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<b>Credit goes to historian
Nichols for including, elaborating, on his source material that accidentally
puts McCarthy in a good light. The networks grudgingly gave McCarthy airtime November
24, 1953, to defend himself against “Trumanism.”</b> When, shockingly, Attorney
General Brownell had exposed Truman, an accomplished liar, for lying about
having appointed Soviet super agent Harry Dexter White to the International
Monetary Fund ignoring FBI protests, Truman attacked McCarthy and the Republicans.
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<b>Here’s the best way
to know the real Joe. Listen to the McCarthy speech take apart the lying
Truman. Listen to McCarthy responses to Edward R. Murrow. Start with the
Wheeling WV speech.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Inside those speeches, McCarthy points out unerringly in detail
how the Communist Party and its organs made McCarthy public enemy number one.
Establishment politicians sometimes incorporated the communist editorials
verbatim in attacking McCarthy!<o:p></o:p></div>
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That Truman choose to not seek re-election in 1951 was
largely influenced by McCarthy.<br />
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That the Republicans lost both houses of Congress to the
Democrats in 1954 was largely attributed to the Establishment persecuting Joe
McCarthy and trying to cover up for 35 red moles at Fort Monmouth complex.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Like Samson in the pagan temple, McCarthy took many with him
on the way out.<o:p></o:p></div>
Peter B. Hrycenkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082190294621012305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951158549292355225.post-57230993411292454422016-05-02T17:48:00.001-07:002016-05-02T18:43:37.609-07:00Trump's ideal running mate: Pat Buchanan<br />
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A Donald Trump presidency would be defined by the company it keeps. Voters would expect his administration to deliver on immigration cleanup, America First economic nationalism, a re-evaluation of foreign aid and a reversal of the moral decline blamed on the Beltway critters. We could use a strong vice president to keep an eye on the chief executive. Somebody with solid right credentials, who knows the landscape, who can speak well with struggling Americans and help counter establishment attacks. <br />
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Enter my choice in Patrick J. Buchanan, a Republican icon and prolific commentator. He recently wrote that while the GOP appears headed for a train wreck in Cleveland, the principal ingredients of a Republican victory and a Republican future will all be present there: Ted Cruz conservatives and tea party types, Trump nationalists and populists, Rubio-Kasich-Bush centrists and moderates.<br />
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The big tent needs new acts and Buchanan has been working toward this most his life. He was a newspaperman championing the rising Barry Goldwater in 1964 when party leader lib-mods Rockefeller-Romney-Scranton withheld support. Out of the ashes of Goldwater's November defeat came the rebirth of conservatism. Buchanan as a speechwriter and adviser would go on to serve Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. </div>
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I supported Buchanan in his three presidential insurgencies and remember how many conservatives were fearful of “wasting” a vote for an underdog. So look what we've had in office since 1992. </div>
Peter B. Hrycenkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082190294621012305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951158549292355225.post-73909919561563937502014-07-28T20:53:00.000-07:002018-03-19T19:21:06.135-07:00Buchanan and Stockman Under Putin's Spell<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">My long-time friend Pat Buchanan said in the 1992
presidential race that Ukraine was the first country he would visit if elected
president. Back then, he had many Ukrainian American supporters in his
Cold War support of freedom for Ukraine and its people, a support seen in
many of his columns, some exposing for example the KGB’s disinformation campaigns against
ethnics home and abroad. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I am still a fan of Pat, but not for his Putin worship. See
his July 25 column (and others) </span><a href="http://buchanan.org/blog/putin-worse-stalin-6741"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Is Putin Worse Than
Stalin?</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> It seems odd when he shows up on Moscow TV being interviewed by
Shevardnadze’s daughter, in the heart of an oppressed criminal state, telling
the world that the US should turn its back on Ukraine, the Baltic States,
Poland, Georgia – while saying little derogatory about the latest evil empire.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">How has his thinking changed on that struggling nation? He
praises Russia’s mobster-in-chief Putin regularly in columns, saying we need to
better understand this messianic dictator because he is historically entitled
to his murderous takeover of neighbors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">For starters, our Western intelligence services have been
heavily in Ukraine since before the Soviet breakup. (Don’t anybody mention
that.) Of course the EU has a financial interest in Ukraine and its resources. A
Ukraine that doesn’t look backward like Russia is a bonus to all the world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Let us not forget that the US and bankers were heavily
involved inside Russia itself in the 1990’s. We weren’t just there for the
greatest plundering of an empire in history. </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Mafiya-Robert-I-Friedman/dp/0425186873"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Our FBI
was battling with the Red Mafiya</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> which had gained a foothold in the US. Ask
Louie Freeh about that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Without Western help, Ukraine would have been Russia twenty
years ago. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Yet even with all the on-the-ground humanitarian and
para-military aid, we saw Moscow this past winter ready to topple Ukraine.
Putin’s mobsters both in and out of Ukraine had drained away enough wealth and
bought out enough politicians, assassinated enough journalists and activists. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">One would think the Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Russian citizens
would give up in the face of unimaginable poverty and persecution. They did
not, have not, and today we see the re-organized military of Ukraine pounding
away at Putin’s terrorists. Our CIA, God bless them, is providing us daily
images of the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Now David Stockman (July 25: </span><a href="http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/my-thoughts-on-pat-buchanans-brilliant-and-incisive-take-on-washingtons-ukrainian-fiasco/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">My
Thoughts On Pat Buchanan’s Brilliant And Incisive Take on Washington’s
Ukrainian Fiasco)</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> fell into the Pat Buchanan scheme nicely. He writes that
Putin “is no totalitarian menace even remotely in the same league as his Soviet
predecessors. In that regard, Hillary Clinton’s sophomoric comparison of him to
Hitler is downright preposterous.” Just wait a little longer, David, there is
more to come in mobsterland. See if you change your tune. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Last Christmas, Putin barred our Russian expert journalist
David Satter from re-entering Russia. See, Mr Satter has a different take on
Putin. Watch his film </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkyL-PoZ3gg"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">“Age
of Delirium”</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> to see what the Soviet Man did to the oppressed nations and
most importantly how the Putin mindset of lying, cheating, grubbing at all
costs is expected over there today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">One more thing. I can’t imagine if Pat is able to sit still
in his McLean chair, while reading David’s column in praise of him. David
praises whatever non-intervention in Eastern Europe since the times of FDR. FDR
however was not only unfortunately enfeebled by polio, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stalins-Secret-Agents-Subversion-Roosevelts/dp/1439147701"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">he
gave away the store to Stalin</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">. In FDR’s last years of life, the White House
foreign policy was run by the likes of Soviet agents of influence Harry Hopkins
(the Lend-Lease give-away), Alger Hiss, Lauchlin Currie and Harry Dexter White.
China and Eastern Europe fell. Tens of millions were murdered then, now 150
million and counting. East European American commandos were betrayed to Stalin
and tortured on television. Pat Buchanan knows this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Next order of business: send Jesse
Jackson, Colin Powell and Jimmy Carter to Moscow to suggest it is time for a
change.</span><br />
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<br />Peter B. Hrycenkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07082190294621012305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951158549292355225.post-13042599219402703362013-12-07T20:59:00.000-08:002018-03-19T19:35:59.543-07:00A Joe McCarthy We Should Know<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black;">A restless world tired of
traditional faith came to embrace a new religion in international socialism.
That affair cost <a href="http://www.scottmanning.com/content/communist-body-count/" target="_blank">150 million lives</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While a hostile world intelligentsia and a liberal media, the likes of
the NY Times, worked hard at covering up the atrocities through the decades,
there would be those young correspondents who risked their lives and reputations
to expose them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.brama.com/news/press/2003/10/031001leliw_muggeridge.html" target="_blank">Malcolm Muggeridge</a> and
<a href="http://www.garethjones.org/eyewitness.htm" target="_blank">Gareth Jones</a> for example travelled into the Ukrainian famine and smuggled out
stories to the West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this,
Muggeridge was sacked by his newspaper the Manchester Guardian. Jones was later assassinated by the NKVD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://georgeorwellnovels.com/biography-of-george-orwell/" target="_blank">George Orwell</a>, a lifelong democratic
socialist and anti-Stalinist, captured that era in “Animal Farm” and worked
Jones into the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Societal
persecution dogged all three men for speaking the truth when it wasn’t chic to
suggest the Russian Revolution shouldn’t happen in the West.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But that top-down revolution was indeed unfolding here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As Ukrainians worldwide commemorate the 80<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
anniversary of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Harvest-Sorrow-Collectivization-Terror-Famine/dp/0195051807" target="_blank">Holodomor</a>, the forced Soviet famine of 1932-33 that killed 10
million, with a December 4 monument unveiling in Washington, I’d like to say a
few things about a hero who shed greatest light on communist infiltration and
deception in America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Joe McCarthy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Loathed by many in the big media yet loved by the common
man, Wisconsin Senator McCarthy for a scant five years went to the media to
share what was going on in a federal government having a devil of a time
cleaning out national security risks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Warring with the Eastern Liberal Establishment got him packaged into the
most hated politician in American history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">He is the eternal face of the misunderstood and poorly explained Red
Scare. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A prime example of conventional treatment today of McCarthy and the period can be seen in the columns of The Morning Call's <a href="http://www.mcall.com/news/local/carpenter/mc-pc-francis-walter-dam-20131109,0,7786226.column" target="_blank">Paul Carpenter</a>. A couple times a year he drags out old Joe for a drubbing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But first about the national security nightmare under
Roosevelt and Truman.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Thousands of
moles nosed their way into US government.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">A maturing FBI grew aware of that cultural phenomenon but was
hampered</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">because of the lax attitude
under Roosevelt</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">who</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">himself could have summed up</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">the Stalin age when he quipped “ give Uncle
Joe what he wants.”</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We’re not talking
about cute moles your dog digs up in the yard or the silly youth who paints a
basement bathroom walls in black gloss along with a glowing hammer and
sickle.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We’re talking intellectuals who
clubbed together for years to overthrow American life and were often on the
Kremlin payroll. Highest placed agents of influence, such as the State Department’s Alger
Hiss, the White House’s Lauchlin Currie and Harry Hopkins,</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">and Treasury’s Harry Dexter White, helped
seal the fate of Eastern Europe – and China. The atom bomb project under
the mysterious J. Robert Oppenheimer had true believers delivering Los Alamos
secrets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">By 1945, our Army’s Signal Corps had the ultra-secret
Operation Venona decoding cable message traffic between the US and Moscow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They found 349 US citizens and resident
aliens active in espionage, while thousands more could not be fully identified,
according to John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr in their book “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Venona-Decoding-Soviet-Espionage-America/dp/0300084625" target="_blank">Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America</a>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prosecutors had a dilemma: they couldn’t use
Venona nor<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sometimes the best FBI
evidence<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in courts without tipping off
the Soviets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead they had to settle
on nailing many of the traitors and fellow travellers on lesser perjury
charges. Untold numbers were quietly ushered out of government service by loyalty boards and personnel security officers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Back to America’s astounding cold warrior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 15 months his investigative committee
accomplished a decade’s work by Senate standards. Great energy was expended battling the White House just to get records out of various agencies such as the State Department and Army. Famed prosecutors Roy
Cohn and Robert F. Kennedy added star appeal. However the
Roosevelt-Truman-Eisenhower continuum didn’t take well to McCarthy’s growing
power. Veteran journalist and educator M. Stanton Evans in his unequaled “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas/dp/1400081068/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1386470917&sr=1-2" target="_blank">Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and his fight against America’s Enemies</a>” explained McCarthy in retaliation would help to bring down
several<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>prominent<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Democrats, most notably<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Curiously, Ike and his lib-mod Beltway advisors had weighed in against
McCarthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>VP Richard Nixon -- the hero who nailed Alger Hiss not long ago while a California congressman -- had been
tasked in lining up votes in the Senate to censure him for his scalding
arguments with senators. The Army hearings and the censure battle would cost
the Republicans control of Congress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">One of the best attorneys in America, Edward Bennett
Williams, defending McCarthy, found out the censure hearing was no court of
law. The Senate gave the sentence first, the verdict later. Of those 46
charges against him, none was left standing. That led Nixon to strike off the word "censor" and replace it with "condemn." Satisfied that blowback wouldn't burn them should there be blowback, the establishment "condemned" McCarthy on just one laughable count, "conduct unbecoming." Williams pointed out that a number of current senators were already guilty of much more against McCarthy and society in general. Hypocrisy prevailed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Declassified Operation Venona and the brief opening of KGB
archives in post-Soviet Russia proved McCarthy right about his charges. Of
course the mainsteam media and many knowing historians have ignored that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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