Ignoring McCarthy was not the only plan for dealing with the publicity-hungry senator. The Eisenhower administration also tried another tactic: to seize the initiative in the anticommunist crusade. On April 27, 1953, just after the Bohlen confirmation, the Eisenhower White House issued Executive Order 10450, announcing new procedures for combing out any security risks from the federal government. The order took aim not only at those with politically disloyal ideas but also those with a dubious “moral” record. Federal employees could not demonstrate “any criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral,
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