Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy

by David A. Nichols

At Monday’s staff meeting—“Black Monday,” Jackson called it—Hagerty discussed the problem of leaks to reporters. “After [a] moment of dead silence,” Jackson confessed to telling James Reston that McCarthy had “declared war on the President” and lectured the staff on the evils of appeasement; he warned that that the “three Little Monkeys act” would not work.

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