Joseph R. McCarthy Quotes
Even if there were only one communist in the State Department, that would still be one communist too many.
Joseph R. McCarthy, 1908-1957, U. S. Senator (Republican, WI), Statement to the Press
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After this, no other member of the Executive branch went before McCarthy again
Reacting to accusations that he was soft on communism:
The Scientific Project that developed the Atomic Bomb. Oppenheimer, like most sophisticated intellectuals and scientists of the time had acquaintances who were communists or Communist sympathizer in Oppenheimer's case his brother and wife were both members of communist organizations. They too severed their connections. At the time Russia was on major ally in the war against Hitler and fascism. However since the Communist Revolution of 1917 there had been an animus between the American and Russian governments. The work on the atomic bomb was so secret that everybody was a potential suspect and security risk, even our allies. In the final analysis it was a spy in the Manhattan project who was there as part of the British contribution to the project. The security people were chasing after all the scientists who had friends or acquaintances who were communists and missed the real spy who had no such connections.
Moody was an avid Protestant Evangilical. The reference to the "reign of terror" was not to the French Revolution per se but to a national calamity of the severity and magnidute of the French Revolution sd God's wrath would be triggered if more AMericans were not Evangelized. What is particualry interestting is by 1886 Communism had already developed a bad reputation in the part of many religious fundamentalists and considered a sin of the first order such as adultery. The red scare was alive and well. Ironically, Moody and most other anti-communism evengelicals were not hostile brecause of Karl Marx's economic or historical views and theories, but rather Marx's, Engels', and other early Communitists hostility to organized religion was the main casue. The economic adn political opponents of Communism enlisted the aid of as many religious people was possible by emphasing "Godless Communism" and the vast majority of Americans at the time, if they knew anything about Communism at all, it was that the communists were hostile and opposed to religion.
The organization thought that Franklin D. Roosevelt was surrounded by and influenced by communists, and was destroying America for capitalism, when in reality it was Roosevelt who saved capitalism in America by leading the country out of the Great Depression without any revolution or insurgency and maintaining the basic structure of capitalism. They were so fearful of communism that most Americans thought paranoid and unrealistic. When Roosevelt trounced Alf Landon in the 1936 Presidential election, the Liberty League collapsed.
Indeed, many of the countries went communist as Kennan predicted.
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He is known for alleging that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately, the smear tactics that he used led him to be censured by the U.S. Senate. The term "McCarthyism", coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today, the term is used more broadly to mean demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.
