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An interview with Joseph Mccarthy where he discusses the origins of what became called mccarthyism. Longines cone on scope. A Public Affairs program that 1951 untils from 1955. Its time for the longines cone scope. A Television Journal of the important issues of the hour, brought to every monday, wednesday, and friday. A presentation by the company longines company. Good evening, this is frank knight. May i introduce our coeditors longines coneon scope . Our guest for this evening is the honorable Joseph Mccarthy, United States senator from wisconsin. The opinions expressed are necessarily those of the speaker. Senator mccarthy, our viewers, of course, know you are one of the controversial political figure ....
One for a moment, not because its not an interesting question but because i really have to think that through. Eisenhower and reagan have gotten comparisons because of their age, because of their politics, and because of the size of their victories, but im the times were so different. Id have to think about that one. But in terms of what happens with the moment in milwaukee, one way of looking at this is that eisenhower deluded what could have been a strong statement of support for his mentor. In so doing, he could have made and taken the opportunity to position his presidency against such irresponsible statements. Even if they were true. Yes. Right . But he doesnt do that. He either he does one of two things for certain. He either amends the speech, himself, or he allows his speechwriters, john hughes, to cut this out at his bequest. What does that say about eisenhower . That says that either eisenhower wants to try to keep peace in the valley with mccarthy, and he sees mccarthy as be ....
As Bobby Kennedys memoir was called back in 1959 and is hollywood version with kevin costner. What made you decide to focus on the aftermath . Guest there are two things i want to talk about what this book, two different tracks that end up dovetailing. First of almost of the books on the cuban missile crisis and on october 28 when khrushchev decided he was going to back down and he had agreed to withdraw the missiles from cuba. So the first question i had was not what . What happened . Interestingly and this goes back to what usually happens, we xing out what happened in the weeks and months after that from cuban sources than we do from the american side because it simply hasnt been a lot of study on american side about what happened. I happen to be lucky enough to be working with the kennedy tapes during that period when kennedy was taping during nap period so i had this remarkable window. I wanted to sort of extend the story of ....
And i think that he felt a response ability because theres nobody, he felt a responsibility to say well, without a body, without dna evidence, can we really say for sure that this man is dead . To the phantom that escapes how many times managed to escape a month time as adolf eichmann. At the top of most wanted list have been ostracized presents at, but not a lewdly sure. That is through the case remains from his perspective to this day. The macquarie convinced he had yes. Everyone while u. S. Yourself, but its very clear from the evidence in the German Authorities they declared him dead as well. The book is called the eternal nazi. Nicholas kulish, souad mekhennet, thank you very much. [applause] please join us in the back force of wine and food and books to purchase and had nine. Thank you again for joining us. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] Richard Ra ....