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...were "not true." Even Maryland's John Marshall Butler, whose 1950 election victory is widely credited to McCarthy, deserted his idol, calling the attack "most unfortunate and uncalled for." Of the 22 Senators who had voted for McCarthy a few days before, only Idaho's Herman Welker publicly took a place at Joe's side. Said Welker: "I hardly think it is necessary for the Chief Executive to be warmly congratulating anyone...
...said all along that the Senate would never dare "censure" Joe. McCarthy himself scorned this piece of nitpicking. Asked by a newsman if he thought he had been censured, Joe said: "I wouldn't say it was a vote of confidence." And Idaho's Republican Senator Herman Welker, a foursquare McCarthyite, had remarked, hours before the last vote was taken: "You don't censure a man to death. You condemn him to death." Senator Watkins pointed out that the historic verb in Senate censure resolutions is "condemn...
Catch, Anyone?When Watkins finished, Idaho's Republican Senator Herman Welker, who seems to be McCarthy's floor manager, began a speech that lasted through most of the next day. Trying to prove his thesis that other Senators have acted just as badly as McCarthy, Welker gave a fascinating account of the aftermath to a 1951 radio recording session in which Senators debated Far Eastern problems. Said Welker: "The Senator from Indiana [Republican Homer Capehart] threw out of the broadcasting studio into my arms the Senator from Minnesota [Democrat Hubert Humphrey], a friend of mine. The Senator from...
...Welker apparently had forgotten that in 1951, a few hours after the scuffle actually took place, he had told a reporter that accounts of the row were exaggerated, that in reality it had been "a cream-puff affair...
When Novikoff went to Washington on April 23 for his public hearing, an air of belligerence seemed to have replaced his former attitude of cooperation. Several sharp clashes between Novikoff and the committee marked the opening moments of the session, with Senator Welker accusing Novikoff of doing "a terrible injustice to the committee" in his statements...