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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 15
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REMARKS OF SENATOR vn 4 E, JENNER (R-Indlens) 4).
_ IN THE UNTTED STATES SEDATE, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1950
RELEASE ON DELIVERY . rss]
Mr, President, never has the Senate been reduced to such 4 spectacle
ae was presented on thie Serate Floor yesterday afternoon, Certainly, never
yefore have I ever seen a man go to auch desperate lengths to defend his right
his tirade as an acconplice of Stalin is ‘yelatively unimportan All trai
seals heve to stoop to pick up the ball when they drop it, and Senator Tydinds
attack on me 1s only an indication of how low he is willihg to stoop to pick up
the Aduinistration's ball no matter how rotten the filth it has rolled through,
Certainly in thie hour of crisis the personal political future of any-
one of us, including my own, is utterly insignificent and I have learned that
since a man hee to live with his own conscicnce, it metters not what even the
majority thinks of him 56 long es hie conscience is clear.
For mycel?, I ea far more interested in what muy fellow Americana will
pay of me 25 = 50 = 1060 yeats from rncw than I am of whet they are eaying today
or may cay tomorrow,
hes atanm FV samae a,
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gutter of ward politics, you cnly cover yourself wi th another's slime when you
join in the fight on that level.
But there is one more thing I have learned, Mr. President, and that
is, when in euch a time of crisis as this, men, to save their own miserable
political hides or to cover their own blocdy tracks of blunders and betrayala,
drag the future of America down into the muck and mire of gutter politics, you
can count me tn because where my country is at stake, I will get down there
and wallow around with the worst of them,
Senator Tydings bas now presented a spectacle which has treneforned
the majority of the United Stetes Senate into an instrument of mob rule with
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amin ntetration can ride rough shod over fects,
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legitimate evidence, the truth, itself, we ‘sincere concern of @ unanimous
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minority and even flaunt - ea! deepening, fears ‘end misgivings of the American
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people vho are eskod Baw ¥0 p ocrifiqn, Sutter. api die cover up the Bloody
tracka of treason, euet oe er ;
By bis oghtcres: saratgg Syttigs } hes dismissed any doubt I may ever a
have entertained concerning Hy ove convictions, concerning the kind OSs
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