Dwight Eisenhower found Joseph McCarthy's demagoguery reprehensible. As a military man he had been able to distance himself from petty political crusades in the name of the greater cause.

McCarthy had many political gifts ... been widely mentioned as a possible vice presidential candidate for Dwight Eisenhower, and Eisenhower instead chose someone with more acceptable anticommunist ...

President Eisenhower and Nikita Krushchev. Courtesy: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library As the dust settled after the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as competing ...

President Eisenhower's long-awaited "reply to McCarthy" delivered at his press conference yesterday was hopefully headlined by the evening papers as a denuciation of the Senator. This is wishful ...

Although senator McCarthy yesterday affirmed his loyalty to the Eisenhower administration, the antagonism between the two opposing Republican camps still smoulders. In a radio and television ...

“Have you no sense of decency?” Joseph Welch, special counsel for the U.S. Army, asked Senator Joseph McCarthy on live TV during the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. In his efforts to root out ...

McCarthy accused him of being part of a conspiracy against America. During his campaign to become president, the future president - Dwight D Eisenhower - chose not to defend Marshall in public ...

Said McCarthy: “I don’t recall what I said ... Reporters trooped into President Eisenhower’s press conference to fire question after question on Dulles’ failure to stand behind Stassen.

McCarthy himself promised to “pin down ... It was President Dwight Eisenhower, the former supreme allied commander who led the victory in World War II, who finally repudiated political ...