the Colony Restaurant in Washington, DC for dinner with three of his friends. The date

was January 7, 1950. A month earlier, he had been voted worst U.S. Senator in a poll of

Senate correspondents. In his earlier years as Senator, he had been known for taking

loans and funds from businesses totaling $30,000. This included the Pepsi-Cola

company, which earned him the nickname "Pepsi-Cola Joe"1, and the Lustron

Corporation, which dealt in prefabricated houses. About this time McCarthy was also

deemed responsible for the resignation of Senate subcommittee chairman Raymond E.

Baldwin, who left politics citing McCarthy's abuse towards him during the Malmedy

Not only was his political career in danger, but McCarthy was also suffering from

financial troubles. He had squandered all the money from his political funds into soybean

investments and horse racing, which left him nearly broke3. With these things in mind,

McCarthy and his three associates- William Roberts, a Washington lawyer; Charles

Kraus, a political science professor at Georgetown; and Father Edmund Walsh, a dean

also at George University set out to

bomb by September of 19499, which created a new atmosphere of tension in America.

came a great deal of responsibility. It became of time of McCarthyism-a time of fear, a

news and information. What they learned and thought was greatly affected by the writer

that the threat of Communists in high level positions in Washington was in fact real.

security documents, but that they were also American-born citizens, not immigrants. The

The peak of McCarthyism was achieved in 1953, which included the famous

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