Quotes from Larry Tye

Even more basic to McCarthy's success, the president never challenged the senator's meat-and-potatoes premises: that merely believing in communism was dangerous, and that Soviet subversion threatened the stability and safety of America.

It's good to get away from Washington and back here in the United States.

Finally, there was the matter of ensuring that the march would be preserved for posterity: "We should have a photographer to take pictures for use later in the roto sections, to guard against the possibility that the news photographers do not get good pictures for this purpose."16

Do we have the manhood in the Senate to stand up to a challenge of that kind?" The

She probably called to see if you're still alive," Hoffa deadpanned. In a voice meant for everyone to hear, Kennedy said, "I'm still alive, dear. If you hear a big explosion, I probably won't be.

Dr. King's fitting description of the good life, 'a creative synthesis of opposites.'

A person, Bobby would tell his oldest daughter Kathleen, could be judged by the enemies he made.

It was deeply ironic that when McCarthy's self-serving campaign against the Red Menace was at its height, Soviet penetration of the American government was at its lowest ebb for almost thirty years.