power there, and there is one other major difference. in the early 1950s, you had margaret j. smith, a republican speaking out against joseph mccarthy. you had a president, dwight eisenhower, republican, working against him, and one of the figures in my book, charles potter of michigan, who was elected to the senate and worked with joseph mccarthy on his subcommittee until he saw what was going on and the machinations of mccarthy and later wrote a book called "days of shame" regarding what had happened that era. i wonder two things where. is the margaret j. smith today and what republican is going to write that book, "days of shame." >> you also get to something else. i'm sitting here thinking that eisenhower really took his time, and eisenhower hung back while a lot of this was going on. history is judging people right now during this period we're living through. history is judging a good many