Last week the members of the Watkins committee, with one defection, stood alone in the active Senate fight for censure of Senator Joe McCarthy. They were also alone in defending their personal honor against the attacks of Joe and his cohorts. The rest of the Senate sat silent—or in the case of several top Republican leaders, worked for a backroom deal that would save McCarthy.
McCarthy began the week by summoning Utah's Arthur Watkins to appear before the Permanent Investigating Subcommittee. (Among the handful of spectators in the hearing room were...
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