with joe mccarthy had been a different joe mccarthy if rather than roy cohn whispering in his ear it was the one day liberal icon bobby kennedy? what roy cohn we flash forward from roy cohn being mccarthy's enabler, roy cohn helping bring down mccarthy having kicked off a lot of the controversy that gave us the army mccarthy hearings. we flash floored 50 years. -- forward to he still brilliant and arrogant. a guy named fred trump and a guy named donald trump, donald trump was entering the cutthroat world of new york real estate. his dad and he recognize i deleted somebody to advise him, to instruct him how to get involved with that world. and who better than the guy who learned at the knee of joe mccarthy to come in and instructs them him had to do we cut throat and private? roy cohn passed on mccarthy's lessons to trump, and trump has said repeatedly during his presidency when he gets into trouble i sure wish i had a roy cohn by my side to help me out with this. what i think usually saying, only i wish i had a joe mccarthy at my side to tell me how to deal with this. >> that takes us

body kennedy starts out as a joe mccarthy staffer but a joe mccarthy true believer. e believes in mccarthy and his cause against communism in the cold war era. he started out his life as a cold war democrat but he was cold war and the relatively conservative guy. he's on his way to the iconic figure in modern-day american history. joe mccarthy starts out his life as this liberal with bobby kennedy one day and he's on his way to becoming the iconic postwar conservative but even 70 years later he remains an icon too much of the conservative movement in america and the idea that the intersect was for a single reason thatwe talked about going on . it was joe kennedy said they ought to come together and whatever joe kennedy did, whatever joe kennedy asked for bobby did and whatever joe kennedy asked mccarthy for, he saw a union. i think that joe kennedy who was a classic realpolitik, machiavelli and political figure understood if bobby would get tooted by the master and it's ironically the same feeling i think president trump bringing in roy cohen yearslater , they both fe

joe kennedy had given enough money to mccarthy that whatever he asked, mccarthy was likely to say yes. joe kennedy was smart enough to say if he came to massachusetts and campaigned for the republican lodge, lots of irish catholic voters who loved joe mccarthy whether they were republicans or more likely democrats they would do what he said to do. .. . >> and mccarthy obviously had the backing of the party establishment but and epic figure in the state and it appears that at least early on he did not take mccarthy seriously enough. so you just captured through the campaigns and his campaign seldom took him seriously, tone - - tom coleman who was the dean of the star republicans never took him seriously as the guy and tom coleman's dream was somehow beating lafollette so that joe mccarthy call to do it is something that he didn't except that he watched mccarthy father can activist that he was so determined to him and he was the guy he had to get behind the desk behind i think he is getting older and been an opportunist long enough sure she wanted another return and to fight dirty like

and i think that was a lot of people had a lot of loyalty to joe mccarthy. including somebody's who entire family was representing the iconic liberal first family of america, the kennedys. became loyal enough from john mccarthy. not only publicly question him , but when his brother jack said stay away from mccarthy's funeral and appleton in 1957, bobby said thank you jack interesting advice. he flew into appleton with all of his republican congressional people. and on the one hand healed up in the choir loft so nobody could see him at the funeral. at the graveside service he stood off to the side where no one could see him. after the funeral he begged the journalist who were there to not put his name in the stories and not get him in trouble with his "big brother" jack. but until the very end, and until today the kennedys generally and bobby specifically very loyal to him. with mccarty with elvis flaws is a guy who inspired on a personal level that kind of enormous loyalty. >> host: is also notable that john kennedy really danced around mccarthy rather than s

there's joe mccarthy and you can see baby trump. mewling and puking in his arms, that's in the background of course is roy m cohen. this is joe mccarthy's lullaby, a poem i imagine, i thought of it as i was taking a shower at about 8:30 in the morning and by 11 am i had already written a poemand down the illustrations . this was the only one that came easy. maybe it's because it was a lullaby and since it's nighttime and where wrapping this up, this is my life for you. hush little dumpy, don't you cry. you'll be in dreamland by and by. harken back many years ago to the time of your uncle joe. if you're feeling all alone, give a thought to roy m cohen . if you're cranky, be like me . copy my demagoguery. still the nations schism, by attacking socialism area craft on legal jurisdiction by rescinding lynn's conviction. if you like the chinese connection, you'll squeak by in the next election. if you're pulls are getting low, simply take joe scarborough. if you can't win every crucial state, by invoking obama gate. if you're badly trail

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louisiana during the years after the civil war and biographer larry tied recounts the late republican joe mccarthy of wisconsin. in later cerebrum discusses her national book award winning memoir the yellow house. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern, enjoy book tv this week and every week in on c-span2. >> you are watching book tv on c-span2, every weekend with the latest nonfiction books and authors. c-span2 created by america's television company as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider ♪ >> i am doctor mario i am in astrophysicists and the author of seven popular science books. the most recent of which is called the science deniers, i live in baltimore and they currently am in baltimore at my home, as you can see i have something that looks like that in every room in the house, it almost does not matter where i film this. the book as i say is the science deniers, this is a fresh biography of galileo, at the same time with an eye on science denial today to unfortunately we have quite little. the idea is to study from the fascinating person who lived in th

your friends - joe mccarthy, there is a british series is brilliant.it is so complicated with so many twists and double twists and quadruple twists in real life it is hard to capture the byzantine nature of it in a single movie. i would recommend that. >> barbara is recommending i live the free lives, tv program -- i lead 3 lives, tv program that deals with it. if we have any other questions from the audience, do you have another question you might want to ask? >> i want to second that recommendation. gary oldman picked up that character for the movie but you are right, sort of intentionally inconspicuous life you leave, given the budget to spend lavishly, dining in cafÉs at spotting albanian coups by night. >> sometimes it is an especially true in this early period. the big historical reasons, what i am fascinated by, i am fascinated by people who can effect change through their own force of personality. the cia, you've got, largely left to their own devices, they are allowed to experiment in a way that is not certainly like the 1960s, changed quite d

living a double life, your friends, joe mccarthy did it, there is a british series, and i think thats quite brilliant. the spy world is so complicated, so many twisted double twist and quadruple twists in real life it is hard to capture the byzantine nature of it in a single movie. i would recommend that. >> barbara recommending i read three lives, saying i lead three lives, tv program in the late 50s early 60s dealing with spies so if we have any other questions from the audience or do you have another question you might want to ask? >> i went to second the recommendation of alec guinness is george smiley and gary old the man picks up the character, you are right. sort intentionally inconspicuous wife that he leads is the opposite but contrast that with michael burke who was given the budget to spend lavishly, dining and cafÉs by morning and swatting opinion tos by night, that is what people think spying is. >> and sometimes it is. it is especially true that it was like that in this early period. the big historical reasons for picking this period aside, what i'm also fascinated by,

i think it had something to do with the close family ties with mccarthy, especially joe, sr. who loved, but become we haven't talked about on the connector body was also close with mccarthy and would remain close. flew to wisconsin for mccarthy's you know. remained devoted to them too toe in. it's part about massachusetts politics, irish catholics constitute a large part of the electorate. and by the way, interesting comparison to her own day. right to to the end beyond the center, at least through the center, in 54 of joe mccarthy, public opinion survey after a look opinion survey showed that he had the support of roughly 40% of the electorate. i do want to draw the comparison to closely but it's interesting how even after the senate begins to move come even after his attack on the army, mccarthy, a lot of americans stay with him to the end. but i think jack kennedy would've spared himself a lot of grief if he had instructed sorenson, he was in the hospital for legitimate reasons, so those authors is a he went into the hospital to dodge the mccarthy vote. i think that's not t

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mccarthy. especially with joe senior who loved bobby. we have not talked about bobby yet. they remained close. through to wisconsin to mccarthy's funeral remained devoted to him in some ways to the end. it is partially about massachusetts politics . irish catholics constitute a large part of the electric . by the way, interesting comparison to writers to the end, beyond the center, released through the century and 54, of joe mccarthy. george: what about afterwards, he had the support of roughly 4d tent attend . i don't want to draw that comparison to costly but it is interesting after the senate begins moved even after his attack on the army. mccarthy, a lot of american stay with him until the end. but i think jack kennedy would have spared himself a lot of great and he had instructions before him. he was in the hospital for legitimate reasons. so those who say that he went into the hospital to dodge mccarthy. i think that is not true. but he could've through procedure called pairing, he could've instructed and developed and he should've done so. why he did not. that's inte

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i think it had something to do with the close family ties with mccarthy, especially with joe, sr. who loved-- but bobby, we haven't talked about bobby yet and bobby was also close with mccarthy and would remain clothe. flew to wisconsin for mccarthy's funeral and remained devoted to him i think in some ways to the end. it's something about the politics, and interesting comparison to our own day, right through to the end. beyond the censure, at least through the censure in '54 of joe mccarthy, public opinion survey after public opinion survey showed he had the support of roughly 40% of the electorate. i don't want to draw the comparison too closely, it's interesting even how after the senate begins to move and even after his attack on the army, mccarthy, a lot of americans stay with him to the end. but i think jack kennedy would have spared himself a lot of grief if he had instructed sorenson. he was in the hospital for legitimate reasons so those authors who say well, he went into the hospital to dodge the mccarthy vote, i think that's not true. but he could have through a procedur

dwight eisenhower at the time of joe mccarthy's effort to suggest wrongly that the government of theilled with hidden communists, eisenhower went to dartmouth in 1953, 1954 gave a commencement speech saying don't join the book burners. we've relied on a president to explain what is going on and to say to conspiracy theorists, you're unamerican, get lost. >> michael, let's say for the purposes of this conversation that joe biden prevails, that in the next 12 to 24 hours he goes up over 270. what would norms dictate that a sitting president would do and say during that period? >> well, what norms would dictate that a president that lost election which doesn't happen that often, less than a dozen times, that you have the sitting president be as helpful as possible. for instance in 1980 jimmy carter was defeated by ronald reagan by about 10 points in 1980. the first thing he did was he called reagan and in pacific palisades in california and he and mrs. reagan were taking showers at the time, they had to be gotten out of the showers to take the president's call. and what is the first thi

wrapped it in my head and erased it but i said why would he not inthe summer of 66 when atcking joe mccarthy , the guys a spent force, he's gone. why would jack kennedy not to say to mrs. roosevelt that i didn't like the y which is true . he didn't like mccarthy in personal terms or political terms. even now however he doesn't want to criticize mccarthy and i can't quite figure that out . >> i didn't know. i can only imaginehat he was loyal to his family and this was one that didn't mean ough to him as going against his father in peasement did. to reject his father that way . it's a good an explanation as any of them . >> my parents were a lite younger than jfk and marthy was the litmus test to them as liberal democrs of whether a politician could be trusted. whher they could really respect a politician and they ended up at stevenson people because stevenson was much moreoutspoken about mccarthy . so when it came to 1960, they celebrated kennedy's election , but he was not therean and he never was there man and it's really because of the mccarthy period. for a lot of liberals at was true so

probably best known in the public mind as one of the very few brave senators who post mccarthy, joe mccarthy and his tactics very early on. she gave a speech called the declaration of conscience in june 1950 where she opposed his tactics very eloquently. she goes on to serve a very long career to the early 1970s. she's one of the women whose kind of pushing the story of women in congress into a new era. if you're interested in this topic, you can learn more by going to our website which is history.house.gov the women in history publication as well as the artifacts that we don't have on the table is available on the site. >> this was the first of a two part program. you can do this and all other american artifact programs and our website. up next, a look back at a union civil war prison camp in new york were almost 3000 confederate p.o.w.'s giant. derek max field, author of hell missouri, the union's most infamous p.o.w. camp of the civil war, talks about the conditions at the prison and some of the officers in charge. afterwards, national park service historian describes the events of april

probably best known in the public mind as one of the very few brave senators who oppose mccarthy, joe mccarthy and his tactics very early on. she gave a speech called "the declaration of conscience" in june 19 # 50 where she opposed his tactics very eloquently. so she -- and she goes on to serve a very long career to the early 1970s. she's one of the women who kind of is pushing the story of women in congress into a new era. if you're interested in this topic, learn more by going to our website, which is history.house.gov. the women in congress publication, along with objects and artifacts that we don't have here on the table today is available on the site.

probably best known in the public mind as one of the very few brave senators who oppose mccarthy, joe mccarthy and his tactics very early on. she gave a speech called "the declaration of conscience" in june 19 # 50 where she opposed his tactics very eloquently. so she -- and she goes on to serve a very long career to the early 1970s. she's one of the women who kind of is pushing the story of women in congress into a new era. if you're interested in this topic, learn more by going to our website, which is history.house.gov. the women in congress publication, along with objects and artifacts that we don't have here on the table today is available on the site. >>> this was the first of a two-part program, you can view this and all other american artifacts programs at her website, c-span.org/history. >>> each week american history tv's american artifacts visits museums and historic places. up next we take you inside thes house wing of the u.s. capital to learn about the history of women in congress. and second of a two-farar elliott program we continue the story beginning in the 1940s with republi

of the ku klux klan in the years after the civil war, biographer larry tie reports the life of joe mccarthy. later, the yellow house. watch tonight beginning at 8 am eastern. enjoy booktv this week and every weekend. >> your watching booktv, the latest nonfiction books and authors. c-span2 created by america's television company as public service and brought to you by your television provider. >> greetings in new orleans. the distinct pleasure welcoming our two guests today, jack davis, author of our book today, eric dolan, author of the furious sky, a history of the hurricanes in america. it is a very timely book as louisiana got blasted by hurricane laura. our thoughts and prayers go

he's hitting joe mccarthy territory. luckily, we still occasionally have these patriots holding things together. there are some in the republican party, but very few. everyone should be saying, don't hoard warp speed, this is an operation that can save lives. help. >> i keep looking down, it keeps coming in. this is a letter the chief of staff of cisa wrote, a change in leadership is not a change in mission. it is essential not to lose focus on the important work we undertake on behalf of the american people. when you think about what is happening, doug just mentioned there are people holding it together, is our democracy hanging by a thread? >> no. this is what, i mean that honestly. i would be worried if the votes were closer, and i do worry about what is acceptable behavior. trump is trying to have these rallies, a couple of thousand show up. the way i think about it, they all think america is a joke. this is a way to think about trump and graham, all the losers who have surrounded him. turns out the people who take a

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lindsey graham is hitting joe mccarthy territory. luckily we still occasionally have these patriots who are holding things together. there are some in the republican party, but they're very, 1re6 few. everybody should be telling donald trump share operation warp speed. we paid for the vaccines. don't hoard them. don't keep information. this is an american flam can save lives. help. >> yeah. i've got to ask you, julia. i keep looking down because it keeps coming in. >> yeah. >> this is a letter chief of staff emily early who's cesa's chief of staff. she said change in leadership is not a change in mission. it is essential we do not lose focus on the important work we collectively undertake for the american people. when you think about what's happening, doug just mentioned there are people holding it together. is our democracy hanging by a thread? >> no. i mean that honestly. i mean, i would be worried if the votes were closer and i do worry about what's acceptable behavior now in and that lasting longer than donald trump, but i've bee

they are allowing a poison to spread looks more and more like a modern analog to the rampages of joe mccarthyweekend the president went on fox business to claim that the fbi was rigging the election against him. he went after brian kemp who really tied himself to donald trump and his campaign for governor there a cupping years ago. i find it remarkable, reading your expensive article about how he got here, that any one of these republicans can stockage what is happening. they are showing us that in the republican party, the upper echelons, the lawmakers, they are not profiles in courage. people who are on the campaign, who were advising the campaign, and there is a sense that you're losing the white house, but secretly you really won. then they goat deflect some of the blaming over the poor campaign they ran or the president's questions about how they spent so much money and didn't deliver him. some of them, you know, they are up for reelection in 2022. it underscore what's a hold this president has on the party. so you have someone like roy blount who went out on the sunday shows and would n

and that light is roy cohn -- line -- would been joe mccarthy's council during the army mccarthy hearings and his protector, who was against stiff competition possibly the most crooked lawyer in the united states for many years, with utterly amoral, utterly ruthless, and imbued some of that ruthlessness into both richard nixon and donald trump, whom he also counseled for the last decade of his life. there's a shamelessness in the work of roy cohn that imbues the political life of both richard nixon and donald trump, a shamelessness and a recklessnes recklessness. >> do you see them -- how do you see them as different? >> nixon was way smarter. [laughing] nixon had a much better sense of power. i mean, say what you will about richard nixon, but he understood american foreign policy. he had been vice president for eight years under dwight eisenhower, possibly the most masterful president in foreign policy in the years since world war ii. he had been all over the world. she knew things. donald trump is richard nixon on twitter minus 50 iq points. >> richard nixon on twitter would actually be

so why not in the summer 56 when attacking joe mccarthy why would jack kennedy nancy to mrs. roosevelt i think he liked mccarthy in person. doesn't want to criticize mccarthy. >> i can only imagine and it did not mean enough to him and then to reject his father like that. >> parents were a little younger than and jfk and it was a litmus test has liberal democrats could be trusted so largely because stevenson. >> when it came to 1960 they celebrated kennedy's election and with the mccarthy. not too much of the politics of that time and how they divide it on him. >> but it is worth noting the democratic party of the whole like hubert humphrey for a very long time were unwilling to criticize men to see the broad partisan support to go after him in any serious way. so the senator from massachusetts, a republican is not just more so than jack kennedy so he is not alone. >> and profiles of courage , here we differ a little bit the evidence is powerful the broad architecture of the book the theme of the book and the argument and the need for evidence-based discourse. and then for com

. >> 1950s, joe mccarthy. >> stephen: sure. >> any chance for a tapper camio?hero and i am not young, handsome or talented enough to be that person. i might, i might do a camio but i will tell you something, you, you actually should be in it. because i know you actually have acting chops. and there are some roles in it that, i mean what about senator estes keyfaffer from tennessee. >> stephen: are you kidding, he was a vice presidential candidate, at one point. >> that's right. >> stephen: with ice, in the with. >> >> stephen: adelaide stevenson. >> you would be good at that. you would be good in that role. >> stephen: people have often called me keyfawferresque. jake, we have to go, thanks sto much for stopping by. i understand you have an important message to tell people. >> every year i have an auction to raise money for wounded veterans to build homes force them. you always, you always kick in with a visit to the set and a meet and greet, it very generous. this year obviously because of the pandemic are you not doing that. you donated a zaneious suit, peopl

he could be joe mccarthy fading away, but he also has done something that no other american politicianch is come in from the outside, take over a party, rise to the pinnacle of power, and govern for four years. and 74 million people or so looked at the last four years or looked ahead four years in fear of a caricature of the democratic party and said, yeah, we want more of that. so we are a 51% country. donald trump understands that intuitively. and i think that we are in a political cultural moment, as doris was saying, where the independent contractor, the independent actor, the disintermediated figure, as david brandailles argued so brilliantly four years ago, donald trump is the disintermediation of american politics. that's a cultural, political, economic reality. i think what you see with the republican party right now is they are basically all participating in a kind of political hedge fund because they don't know either. they are hedging against trump's ongoing influence or that of his children or his allies, you know. trump has always been a franchiser, and so there may be tru

like a modern analog to the silence of republican congressional leaders during the rampages of joe mccarthy in the early 1950s. history will have no trouble finding a parallel between mcconnell's attempt to look the other way and what so many republican leaders did until joseph welles said, do you have no decency? >> it's truly remarkable. carl, fox ho carl, a fox host nodded along during the call. fox's opinion hosts are towing the line while he pushes the lies. in your opinion, are they complicit? is fox news complicit in the effort to overturn the will of the people, to have this peaceful transition of power, which is what makes america america? >> the conservative opinion hosts think the president is on the right side of his complete pretzel logic and misunderstanding of what happened. he lost. he is toast. he is out of here soon. that's a reality he won't accept. there are now only three places where he can reliably get an audience. it's fox one. then there's the one america network. the other one is maybe breitbart or newsmax. that's a big fall for a president of the united states. th

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>> 1950s, joe mccarthy. >> stephen: sure. any chance for a tapper cameo?s true. but that character is the hero, and i am not young, handsome or talented enough to be that person. i might-- i might do a cameo, but i will tell you something: you. you actually, should be in it. because i know you actually have acting chops, and there are some roles in it that-- i mean, what about senator estes keyfaffer from tennessee? >> stephen: are you kidding? absolutely! estes keyfaffer was a vice presidential candidate, wasn't he, at one point? >> that's right. >> stephen: with ike? >> that's right. >> stephen: not with ike. with-- >> adelaide stevenson. >> stephen: adelaide stevenson. >> you would be good at that. you would be good in that role. >> stephen: people have often called me keyfafrer-esque. jake, we have to go, thanks so much for stopping by. i understand you have an important message to tell people before we go. >> every year, i have an auction to raise money for severely wounded veterans, to build homes for them-- specially adapted homes. you always, you a

and if you thought that joe mccarthy was full of it and he was a puppet essentially history document was actually the case. and it went another way. politics are largely inherited. you tend to be fairly close in general. so from that schism in the 1950s, it was called red and blue back then. you can kind of march along in time. the people are the same people whose children were against the vietnam war. his grandchildren were against the iraq war. who are probably voting democratic in this election. in the opposite is drawn the other side. this is really the great schism in american politics, started in this theory. it's direction what i wrote about. both frank was number one man the cap was the grand wizard who is in charge of covid operations all over the world. there's a time look like he was going to be the next cia director. right at the moment it looked like he was going to become the director, j edgar hoover had another round of investigations on this relationship he had. this was a returning pattern in his life. he was investigated by the fbi. and in peter's case is kind of an

and if you felt that joe mccarthy was full of it and that he was a puppet of j edgar hoover which history has shown that wasactually the case , then your politics went another way and politics is also inherent, you've got to be fairly close to what your parents tended to be so from that schism in the 1950s and of course it wasn't called red and blue back then we march around in time so that people of the red scare where the same people who were against the vietnam war, whose grandchildren were against the iraq war. who remember voting democratic in the selection and the same on the other side but this was really the great schism in american politics. it started in this period and it had a direct effect on what i write about. wisner was kind of the grand wizard, he was in charge of operations all over the world . there was a time when he was going to becomethe next cia director . there was a moment he looked like he was going to become the director, j edgar hoover lost another round of investigations . this relationship he had with seven years, this was a recurrent pattern in franklin's li

it was joe mccarthy's language in the early 1950s. d i think what we are seeing from mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy and the other republican leaders will be remembered as equivalent to the c cow aring of the leaders of communist infiltration of the government. they are doing comparable damage. now, will they damage themselves inside the republican core? probably not because, you know, you're seeing the allegiance of so many of the voters to this line of argument. but i do think it kind of re-affirms the view of those very suburbs we did that i just mentioned that the republican party is moving in an extremist direction at noipoint, particuly as long as trump is defining it. >> acquiescence to is add sunbs the obscene -- >> the obscene is better. >> the georgia secretary of state calling the enemy of the people, struck out of the georgia governor brian kemp. firm supporters saying i'm ashamed to endorse him. is he risking harming republican efforts to win those two crucial georgia senate seats with that and his other comments on geo

holding nd documents claiming you have evidence when you have no evidence is litelly what joe mccarthy and now we're seeing a repicture of it.'v always had in this country paranoid style. s chard hofstetter wrote a book about 50, 60 yeo, the paranoid style of american politics, alleging the mafia killed john f. kennedy, that's always been here and is not new. the question i have is to what extent is that spreading, to what extent is q anon just become like a large religion out there and hall the distrust built up over the decades now created a paranoid ring that's just bigger than ever before? i just don't know the ansatr to i know every time we have an election, we ratchet down our quality of politics. you know, people claim thackt babama was a legitimate president, hillary clinton and jimmy carter said donald trump was an illegitimate president, but that's nothing compared toat happening now. there's some evidence we're seeing a bigger alienated, paranoid wing of our country wha believe in this or just nobody. it's pure nihilism. >> woodruff: what mes it more, in my mind, a question,

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another is joe mccarthy. his early political career, nixon rose very rapidly through the ranks. he was an anti-communist. he worked hard to understand communism and why briefly during the depression many americans had been attracted could -- to communism. he was dedicated to rooting out communism from high places. he understood it was a good weapon to use against the democrats. a characteristic of republican rhetoric in the 40's was the insertion that in the state department and other parts of the government, communists were at work and truman knew they were at work. he ran successfully for a seat in the senate in 1950. red baiting his opponent. he was chosen by eisenhower to be his running mate. between 1946 and 1952. he goes from a congressman to vice presidential candidate. because he won the the election of 1952, he was inaugurated as vice president. that is the job he held throughout the eisenhower administration. in 1960 he was the republican candidate in the election against john f. kennedy. this was an election that he lost very narrowly. one of the closest elections of

but right now you'd rather be talked about as margaret chase smith than as joe mccarthy. i think a lot of what's going sxorngs jason was just talking about it, this is kind of a republican hedge fund. because they don't know how powerful trump will be. will he be the wizard of oz? will it be all over? or will it continue to be this ambient and fundamental force? they don't know, so they're hedging their bets. >> and jason, how would you advise democrats in georgia, these two senate races which as we said are ball game for senate control, not only how to proceed, how to communicate with the voters -- lessons learned from what we've just been through -- but how to capitalize on what we can see are errors in real time on the part of republicans, especially the guy at the head of the ticket? >> well, we've already seen the devil go down to georgia. right? lindsey graham being exposed now as this guy who wants to play his fiddle and influence what's going on there, that's the kind of thing that needs to be focused on. i was literally just in a conversation with some organizers

he tweeted out a telegram that he had drafted to joe mccarthy but decided not to send it, decided toe did throughout the administration, at least on foreign policy, and hope that that would, at the end, take care of itself. but you know, it's hard work. it's the blocking and tackling of legislating that truman, of course, was good at, that biden's going to be good at. but i've got to say, lawrence, i do think when you look at the pardon, i'm reminded of another book today when i'm seeing donald trump continuing to abuse the presidency of the united states, and that's tom rick's book "first principles." and ricks laid out very well that the framers of the constitution, madison and hamilton, they were skeptics of the enlightenment and human nature. they believed in checks and balances. george washington believed in roman virtue. and i think the presidency, because of washington -- we've relied too much on the good intentions of presidents, people who have sat in the oval office. and i think that joe biden and congress has to take a good, hard look at the type of presidential reforms th

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kennedy, another was joe mccarthy who was going to give his name to the era of mccarthyism. and nixon rose very rapidly through the ranks. he was an anticommunist. he worked hard to understand communism and understand why briefly during the depression many americans had been attracted to communism. and he understood that it was a good weapon to use against the democrats, a characteristic of republican rhetoric in the late '40s was the assertion that in the state department and other parts of the government, communists were at work and truman knew that and had done nothing to get rid of them. in 1952, he had only been in politics for six years, he was chosen by eisenhower to be his running mate. between '46 to '52, he goes to a freshman congressman to being vice presidential candidate. because he won the election of '52, he was inaugurated in '53. in 1960, he was the republican candidate in the election against john f. kennedy. here are the two candidates together. this was an election which he lost narrowly. one of the closest elections of the 20th century. and to make matte

kennedy, another was joe mccarthy who is going to give his name to the era of mccarthy is some. in his early political career, nixon rose rapidly. he was an ardent anti communist, he worked very hard to understand communism and to understand why briefly, during the depression, many americans were attracted to communism. the house on american activities was dedicated to rooting out communist in high places. he understood that it was a good weapon to use against the democrats, a characteristic of rhetoric was the assures -- communists were at work and truman knew they were at work and was doing nothing to get rid of them. he ran successfully in a seat in the senate in 1950, bathing his opponent. in 1952, he's been in politics for six here, he was chosen by eisenhower to be his running mate. so a meteoric rise in 56 to -- the to be vice bespoke candidate. because nixon won the election of 52, he was vice president 53. that is the job he held throughout the eisenhower administration. in 1960 he was a republican candidate in the election against john f. kennedy. here the two candidat

louisiana during the years after the civil war and biographer larry tied recounts the late republican joe mccarthyof wisconsin. in later cerebrum discusses her national book award winning memoir the yellow house. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern, enjoy book tv this week and every week in on c-span2. >> you are watching book tv on c-span2, every weekend with the latest nonfiction books and authors. c-span2 created by america's

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and history that are largely negative, much as when people talk about mccarthyism to refer to joe mccarthyconsin,inate rr n they're no as a compliment. >> continued congratulations for the superb setting behind you, the room we all like to picture hi historians writing books in and reading them as well. we tried mightily to get you on in the middle of the night. so happy to talk to you tonight. another break for our coverage. when we come back, steve kornacki back at it. back at the wall. back to looking for extra votes that might be out there on the road to 270. with this seal, this restaurant is committing to higher levels of cleanliness. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the expertise that helps keep hospitals clean, is helping keep businesses clean too. look for the ecolab science certified seal. now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are getting clearer ♪ yeah i feel free ♪ to bare my skin, yeah that's all me. ♪ ♪ nothing and me go hand in hand ♪ ♪ nothing on my skin that's my new plan. ♪ ♪ nothing is everything. woman: keep your skin clearer with skyrizi. with skyrizi, 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4