Word: mccarthyism
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...press conference about the House committee's charges. He exploded, accusing the committee of misusing classified information "in a tendentious, misleading and totally irresponsible fashion [that] has already done damage to the foreign policy of the U.S." Kissinger charged the committee with practicing "a new version of McCarthyism" and called its report "a malicious...
...Watergate scandals, Publisher Katharine Graham warned reporters against a temptation to "see conspiracy and cover-up where they do not exist." Before a group of editors last month, A.P. General Manager Wes Gallagher denounced "this investigative binge." CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid feels that there is "a kind of McCarthyism" abroad: "Anybody who is hauled up and accused of anything is assumed guilty until proved innocent. This is a residue of Watergate...
...that has died down a bit, but even people considered conservative at Harvard, like Pusey, have fought for causes generally considered liberal, like anti-McCarthyism...
...might say that about H.S.T. himself. Historian Richard Freeland, in The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism, argues that "the practices of McCarthyism were Truman's practices in cruder hands, just as the language of McCarthyism was Truman's language in less well-meaning voices." Charles Mee's recent Meeting at Potsdam portrays a vulpine Truman cynically deciding to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima to frighten the Soviets rather than to vanquish an already prostrate enemy...
...godlessness, cruelty, and barbarism." It would be totally unreasonable to suggest that Lindbergh's views on these questions failed to color his perspective on foreign policy. To present the picture, as Cole does, by claiming that Lindbergh suffered from his detractors in the same way that internationalists suffered from McCarthyism is a clear historical distortion. It is apparent that most of those who McCarthy charged with disloyalty, for example, the leading China experts in the State Department, were in fact simply accurate reporters of unwelcome news, punished like harbingers of ill in medieval courts...