Wisconsin’s Republican junior senator, Joseph R. McCarthy, who had displaced Nixon as the nation’s most famous Red-hunter and was running for reelection, had called Eisenhower’s great benefactor, General George C. Marshall, a “traitor.”
That anyone could think General Marshall was a traitor is amazing to me. I wonder if Senator McCarthy actually believed this, or if he was just looking for something provocative to say, in order to stay in the headlines.
