Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, 11-12, 31-33, 45-46, 48, 51, 54, 59-81, 104, 111-13, 116, 126-28, 131, 134, 139-53, 187, 201-4, 206, 295
Army-McCarthy hearings, 206, 210-16, 217, 218-88
bipartisanship and Schine report, 201-2
countdown to Army-McCarthy hearings, 217-32
funding, 131
one-man hearings, 166
See also McCarthy, Joseph R.; specific investigations
Senate Rules Committee, 12, 289
Sentner, David, 265
Shanley, Bernard, 14, 25-26, 31, 40, 42, 44, 49-51, 56, 58, 116, 159, 182, 231
shipping agreement negotiations, 27-29, 82
Smith, Alexander, 54, 76, 112
Smith, Merriman, 41, 87, 89, 91, 212, 244
Smith, Walter Bedell, 14, 15, 17, 55
Snyder, Murray, 98, 227
Social Security, 103
Sokolsky, George, 93, 103, 104, 134
South Korea, 2, 45
Soviet Union, ix-x, 15, 66, 70, 296
Bohlen controversy and, 15-26
communism, 2, 27, 42-44, 66, 221, 226-27
Eisenhower and, 10, 15-26, 34-37, 82, 135, 221, 326n5, 327n5
espionage in US government, x, 2, 37-38, 42-44, 73, 83-90, 226-27
expansionism, 2, 15
nuclear weapons, 2, 42, 58, 73, 226-27
postwar, 15-17, 47
trade, 27
White case and, 83-92, 94, 95
Sparkman, John, 23-24
Sperber, A. M., 188
Spivack, Robert, 116, 133, 251
Stalin, Josef, 3, 15-17, 41
death of, 16-17, 34, 82, 108
Stanton, Frank, 188
State Department, 2, 30, 52, 79, 182, 187
book censorship issue and, 32-33, 39-42, 46-48, 52, 82, 183
McCarthy’s hunt for communists and homosexuals in, 2, 13-26, 30-33, 38, 54, 111, 116, 128-30, 278
Stennis, John, 289
Stephens, Tom, 3
Stevens, Robert, 13, 64-68, 92, 101, 121, 126, 127, 130, 139, 143-60, 178, 250, 323n3, 324n15
Army investigation and, 64-81, 92-94, 130-31, 134, 139-40, 143-64, 183-84, 194-95, 199-202, 206, 214, 216, 232-50, 275
Army-McCarthy hearings and, 205, 214, 216-18, 232-35, 238-50, 254-56, 260-70, 275, 278-79, 286-87
Eisenhower’s support of, 159-62, 166-67, 171, 172, 179, 207-8, 246, 263, 275
Fort Monmouth investigation, 72-80, 92-94, 112, 122, 240
lunch agreement with McCarthy, 150-60, 163, 166-67, 171, 241
McCarthy and, 64-81, 92-94, 101-2, 112, 117, 130-33, 134, 143-64, 183-84, 194-95, 199-202, 232-50
Schine report and, 183-84, 194-95, 199-202, 234, 235, 265-67, 275
statement, 159-62, 164, 176, 266
Stevenson, Adlai, xii, 177-78, 184
“half McCarthy and half Eisenhower” speech, 178, 180-85, 189, 192, 203, 220
Strauss, Lewis, 178, 179, 225-27
Streibert, Theodore, 52, 70, 183
Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 47-48, 84
Supreme Court, US, 43, 44, 70, 136
Brown v. Board of Education, 262, 264, 265, 342n3
Sylvester, Arthur, 243
Symington, Stuart, 126, 132, 137, 144, 150, 168, 183-84, 191, 206, 209, 211, 213, 229, 255, 262, 279
Taft, Robert, 11, 15, 17, 22-25, 38-39, 45, 57, 118, 152
Taft, William Howard III, 16
television, 109, 222, 274
Army-McCarthy hearings, 206-7, 232, 234, 244-45, 249, 283, 288
McCarthy’s physical appearance on, 244-45
Murrow program on McCarthy, 171-72, 180-81, 187-88, 203, 223-224
response to Stevenson’s March 6 speech, 181-85, 189, 192, 203-4, 220
terrorism, 168-69, 172
Thayer, Charles, 18, 20
trade, 27
Chinese, 27, 95, 96, 134, 135
shipping agreement negotiations, 27-29, 82
Trice, J. Mark, 214
Truman, Harry, xiii, 2, 14, 30, 37, 39, 63, 65, 83, 104, 112, 113, 131, 135, 164, 258, 327n8
attack on McCarthyism, 90-94
1948 executive order on confidential loyalty information, 63, 65, 66, 73, 79, 85, 139, 141
White case and, 83-92, 94, 95
United Nations, 5, 100, 102
United Press, 154
UPI, 41
USIA (United States Information Agency), 52-53, 70, 82, 183, 207
Velde, Harold H., 87
VOA (Voice of America), 30-33
book censorship issue, 32-33, 39-42, 46-48, 52, 82
McCarthy’s attack on, 30-34
Wall Street Journal, 175
Warren, Earl, 70, 136, 215
Washington, George, 54, 122, 171, 258
Washington Post, The, 50, 137, 165, 174-75, 213, 262, 272, 285, 290
Washington Star, The, 175, 265
Watkins, Arthur, 289-95
Watkins Committee, 289-95
Welch, Joseph Nye, x, 216, 217-20, 228-32, 233, 238, 240, 245-52, 255, 271, 277-88, 358n34
vs. McCarthy, 279-83
Welker, Herman, 21, 214
West Point, 56, 92
Wherry, Kenneth S., 56
White, Harry Dexter, 83-92, 94, 95, 102, 224, 327n8
White, William S., 22, 27, 51, 53, 100, 110
Whitman, Ann, 86, 96, 161, 309n22
Wilcox, Francis O., 54
Wiley, Alexander, 17, 21, 23
Wilkerson, Doxey, 61, 62
Wilson, Charles, 13, 56, 58-59, 68, 76, 79, 121, 129, 147, 184, 190-91, 200, 210, 217, 243, 248-49, 254, 269, 287, 322n37, 347n11
lunch with McCarthy, 190-93
Wilson, Richard, 52
Winchell, Walter, 248
Woodring, Harry, 290
World War II, ix, xi, 14, 41, 140-41, 223
Yalta Conference, 15-16, 18, 24
Young, Philip, 113, 138
Zwicker, Ralph W., 130, 139-53, 180, 192, 289
McCarthy’s abuse of, 139-53, 173-75, 180, 187, 199, 293, 294
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