The dean of the Washington columnists, Walter Lippmann, added a scathing assessment of the state of play: “There is no doubt whatever that McCarthy is a deliberate aggressor, that he is fighting Eisenhower’s leadership and control of the party. . . . The fight is unavoidable because McCarthy refuses to be appeased. Until he is stopped and his power is checked, he will go on until he is the master of the party.” Lippmann declared that Eisenhower’s “prolonged appeasement has failed.”
