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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 15

69 pages · May 11, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy · 69 pages OCR'd
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hs . . \ . pote y. te St sae « % ; oy welt te 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, have also learned wien cne or + i 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 ~ amin ntetration can ride rough shod over fects, a Te —24 £ 5 legitimate evidence, the truth, itself, we ‘sincere concern of @ unanimous tae Re “A te dye minority and even flaunt - ea! deepening, fears ‘end misgivings of the American té vr. ae pee ad na 2 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 "eniclstine 8 “A327 f° AES ee
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