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When it came to questioning, the examiners were no match for their witness. Nevada's tawny old Pat McCarran was confounded by the Professor's Socratic questions. Asked by Senator Borah how the Civil Liberties Union stood on Communism, the Professor neatly replied, "So far as I know it has no attitude except to carry out its function of seeing that Communists get their Constitutional rights, along with Henry Ford, the Nazis and the Klan." Climax came when, pointing his finger at McCarran, Lawyer Frankfurter said slowly and succinctly...
Nevada's Senator McCarran, good Roman Catholic and father of two nuns,* declared that any attempt to lift the embargo "will be met by Senate opposition that will be remembered for a long time to come...
...members of the Commitee signed the report immediately except Sen. Pat. McCarran, D., Nev., who asked Frankfurter pointedly whether he subscribes to the doctrines of Marxism and questioned him about his membership in the American Civil Liberties Union...
...Later McCarran asked to be recorded as voting...
Marked lightly for Purging, not openly fought, unPurged-Indiana's Van Nuys, Missouri's Clark, Nevada's McCarran, Colorado's Adams, Connecticut's Lonergan...