c-span: who is fred fisher? >> guest: fred fisher was a lawyer who worked on welch's staff who had, in student days, been a member of the national lawyers' guild, which was a communist front organization, and the information appeared in the new york times a couple of weeks before. welch had decided that it was--not make sense to have fred a member of the staff, because he knew that mccarthy and cohn would probably make an issue out of it, and he and roy cohn struck a deal, secretly, before the--before the hearings opened, that if mccarthy and cohn would not mention fred fisher and his communist affiliation as a way of discrediting joe welch and the army's case, that they would not bring up roy cohn's rather suspicious draft deferment that had gotten him out of the korean war. it was a mutual agreement: you don't bring up an embarrassing episode, and i won't mention this one in exchange for that, and cohn presented the terms to mccarthy; mccarthy said, 'fine.' then later on, when--when welch was running--was need

fisher house is over. my notes for the super bowl interview signed by the president and me go to connie and fred sepelak of're donating $30,000 to the fisher house, of course they're patriots, we really appreciate it. thousands of you have donated $25 or more and are getting a replica of the notes suitable for framing. it's really good to help the fisher house, they do so much good work for the families of our badly wounded vets. when i was in san diego i saw a bunch of them. the fisher house, wounded warriors, independence.org. they're not going to forget, we have to help them. we try to give you incentives to do that. that was it for us tonight. please check out the fox factor website which is different from o'reilly.com. word of the day, do not be sardonic. didn't get it when he said he opposed a revolutionary war. he wasn't locked into that. gave you the definite word. don't be sardonic. if you're mad as hell, we want to hear about it, thursday our mad as hell segment. heather is chained up and ready to go. thanks for watching us tonight. i'm bill o'reilly, please always remember that the spin stops ri