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...overstates the climate against him. The fact was that much of official Washington was solidly and politically on the side of Democrat Hiss at the time that Chambers challenged him. President Harry Truman called the hearings before the Republican-controlled House Committee a "red herring"; Secretary of State Dean Acheson declared he would "not turn my back on Alger Hiss...
...shattering experience of the Alger Hiss trial, was nervous. In Wheeling, W. Va. Joe McCarthy stood before a Lincoln Day audience, waved a piece of paper and cried with melodramatic certainty that "I have here in my hand" a list of Government employees known by Secretary of State Dean Acheson to be members of the Communist Party. Later listeners said McCarthy put the total of the list at 205; Joe denied it, said his total was 57. Newsmen, many of them defensive about Acheson's State Department, pumped their outrage into their stories, pumped Joe McCarthy right into...
Scott McLeod's job was an ugly, thankless one to begin with, and he was bound to stir up enemies. As Dulles' top security officer, it was his duty to rid the department of the soft-on-Communism reputation that had built up during the Acheson regime. But by plunging in with McCarthy-like zeal, McLeod alienated good guys and bad guys alike. Moreover, he seemed to be in some initial doubt about whether his primary loyalty was to Secretary Dulles or to State's critics in Congress. The matter came to a head when McLeod, going...
...this generalized, idiotic sniping at Mr. Dulles? Can anyone point to something he has said or done that could even approach in stupidity some of the statements and deeds of Dean Acheson...
...Dean Acheson, Archibald MacLeish and Joseph N. Welch, wrote and spoke widely on civil rights but disliked being tagged a "fiery liberal," called himself a conservative "with an old-fashioned concern about the Bill of Rights...