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...make matters worse, in June 1953 the Harvard Corporation tapped Nathan M. Pusey ’28—an old opponent of McCarthy’s—to be the new University president. Immediately, McCarthy started a very public war of words, warning American parents to keep their children out of the clutch of Harvard communists...
...Pusey vs. McCarthy?...
...focus on Harvard only intensified in June when Pusey, the young president of Lawrence College, replaced Conant as University president...
...Pusey hailed from Appleton, Wis., McCarthy’s hometown. The two had crossed paths just a year before when Pusey was one of 100 prominent Wisconsin residents who signed a booklet, titled “The McCarthy Record,” that criticized the senator’s political decisions during his reelection campaign...
Cronin says the Corporation’s choice of Pusey made a clear statement in the tense climate of the 1950s...