How did that happen? The answer-fully told for the first time in this book-is that Dwight D.
Yet by the end of 1954, McCarthy’s political influence had been essentially destroyed. 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. McCarthy, threw the United States into turmoil with his reckless, unsubstantiated charges that a variety of citizens, especially government employees, were Soviet agents. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īeginning in 1950, Wisconsin’s junior senator, Joseph R. Ike and McCarthy is an eye-opening, newsworthy, and fascinating read. Nichols uses documents previously unavailable or overlooked to authenticate the extraordinary story of Eisenhower’s anti-McCarthy campaign. McCarthy would never recover his lost prestige. Eisenhower’s covert operation had discredited the senator months earlier, exploiting the controversy that resulted from the televised Army-McCarthy hearings. By the end of that year, he had been censured by his colleagues for unbecoming conduct. In January 1954 McCarthy was arguably the most powerful member of the Senate. The White House employed surrogates to conduct a clandestine campaign against McCarthy and was not above using information about the private lives of McCarthy’s aides as ammunition. But the senator had unwittingly signed his own political death warrant.
In a direct challenge to Eisenhower, McCarthy alleged that the US Army was harboring communists and launched an investigation. In Ike and McCarthy, David A Nichols shows how the tension between the two men escalated. Therefore, the president operated with a “hidden hand,” refusing even to mention the Senator’s name. In spite of a public perception that Eisenhower was unwilling to challenge McCarthy, Ike believed that directly confronting the senator would diminish the presidency. Revealed for the first time, this is the full story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy.īehind the scenes, Eisenhower loathed McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist witch hunt.
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