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It's an adventure to read M. Stanton Evans’ “Blacklisted by History: the Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies,” the best book on America’s great Red-hunting patriot. Then there are McCarthy’s own two books "America's Retreat from Victory" and "The Fight for America." Most historians and writers sadly haven’t cared to update their knowledge base.

McCarthy is just too good a boogeyman to resist. The record shows McCarthy’s 1950s committee was right in its proven accusations about hundreds of Soviet agents of influence living off the U.S. government payroll all the way up to the White House. Many of the big fish had even been promoted despite FBI protests.

The saga of 35 Red moles at the Fort Monmouth complex in New Jersey brought incredible pressure on Washington’s cover-up artists. These were the “Army hearings.” President Eisenhower, an establishment darling, thought more of the Army leadership’s reputation than the truth. There was fight going on inside the Army. Plus, Eisenhower couldn't escape being tied to George Marshall.

On June 14, 1951, McCarthy had already exposed the sinister Gen. George Marshall’s role in giving Eastern Europe to Stalin and China to Mao. Back then, the popular portrait of Marshall fed to the public was that he was perhaps “the most important man of the century.”

Eisenhower finally did in McCarthy with the help of a feckless media and vast liberal network. No Fox News, internet, or Twitter to help old Joe.

Renowned defense attorney Edward Bennett Williams had all the Senate kangaroo court charges thrown out except one, a laughable “conduct unbecoming,” for McCarthy defending himself against vicious liberal Democrats in the Senate.

At first glance, it wasn't a good move by McCarthy to have brought up at Army-McCarthy hearings the subject of Welch's associate Fred Fisher having been a past member of the communist-front National Lawyers Guild. Yet it was Welch himself earlier in the April 15, 1954 New York Times who first outed Fisher.

The Left always leaves out McCarthy’s response, “Mr. Welch talks about this being cruel and reckless. He was just baiting; he has been baiting Mr. Cohn here for hours [my emphasis]...”  Gay-baiting on national television?

It turns out that Welch welched on a pre-hearing agreement where he wouldn’t bring up the brilliant young prosecutor Roy Cohn’s homosexuality in return for McCarthy’s silence on Fisher.

Crocodile tears Welch continued his acting career next in Hollywood until his death in 1960.