the real issue, Truman said, going on the attack, was that President Eisenhower “has fully embraced for political advantage McCarthyism. . . . It is the corruption of truth, the abandonment of due process of law. It is the use of the big lie and the unfounded accusation against any citizen in the name of Americanism or security. It is the rise to power of the demagogue who lives on untruth.” Truman offered this withering barb: “In Communist countries, it is the practice when a new government comes to power to accuse outgoing officials of treason, to frame public trials for them, and to degrade
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