(MCCARTHY JOSEPH) DEAN ACHESON Typed Letter Signed to Brenda

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OF MCCARTHY: "[NONE] HAS DONE AS MUCH HARM TO THE STANDARDS OF PUBLIC LIFE" (MCCARTHY, JOSEPH.) DEAN ACHESON. Typed Letter Signed, to Brendan Crowe, giving his opinions about Joseph McCarthy's character and motives. 2 pages, 4to, personal stationery, written on two sheets; horizontal folds. (MRS) Np, 18 August 1959

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". . . First you ask what I thought of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy as a person and as a senator. I thought him an unmitigated scoundrel, which I think goes for him both as a person and as a senator. I doubt whether the Senate has ever had a lower character among its membership or one who has done as much harm to the standards of public life in the United States. As Richard Rovere points out, he was not even a very good demagogue.
". . . [D]o I believe that the State Department had in it people who were disloyal to the United States, I do not think so at all. . . . [D]uring the time that I was associated with him, and at the present time, the standard of competence and disinterested service in the State Department was very high indeed. . . .
"Finally, you ask whether under my administration the State Department took any steps to check the possible Communist infiltration into that office. Of course, it did both before, during and after my administration. . . . [T]he security program began with the President's Executive Order 9835 [Truman's 'Loyalty Order'; which caused] . . . very considerable harm and injustice . . . ."