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"Mene, Mene, Tekel . . ." But Knowland's move came as no surprise to at least one Senator: Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson. No sooner had Knowland sat down than Johnson pulled from his desk drawer a prepared reply. The words McCarthy had used in describing the Watkins committee, said Johnson, would...
More than two-thirds of the U.S. Senate had, therefore, condemned McCarthy for 1) contempt of the Hennings-Hayden-Hendrickson subcommittee that investigated him in 1951-52, and 2) his conduct toward the Senate and the Watkins committee since censure was recommended. Over and above these specific counts, McCarthy'...
Condemnation. After the tally was announced. New Hampshire's foxy Republican Senator Styles Bridges arose to ask if the word "censure" actually appeared in the resolution. Vice President Nixon said that it did not. Some McCarthyites were jubilant: they claimed Joe had escaped censure. Some liberals were equally happy...
At week's end came the first word from the White House since the censure debate began. Dwight Eisenhower personally congratulated weary, browbeaten Arthur Watkins for a "very splendid job."
That sordid chapter may have ended with the censure vote-delivered on the recommendation of five of the most conservative men in the U.S. Senate. It took an Arthur Watkins to curb McCarthy. Nobody but Joe could have called Watkins a "Communist handmaiden." Joe did, and Watkins beat him-three...