Instead of standing up to McCarthy, Eisenhower preferred to point to his own success in “cleaning up the mess in Washington.” On October 23 the head of the Civil Service Commission, Philip Young, delivered the news to the press that the administration had dismissed “1,456 subversives” from federal service. The number was never precisely explained, and the dismissed employees were not identified. What seemed to matter most was that all but five of the 1,456 were holdovers from the Truman years.
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