city public library with david nickels talks about eisenhower's underground campaign against joseph mccarthy. then we will be in columbus ohio, where former cia officer talks on ernest hemingway. and then we will be live in maryland's state capitol with discussions on criminal justice, income inequality, and terrorism and intelligence featuring former director of the cia and national security agency michael hayden. that is a look at some of the programs booktv will be covering this week. many events are open to the public and look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> good morning. i am president of the ge

david nichols will talk about resident dwight eisenhower's underground campaign against senator joseph mccarthy. that same night, we will be at the thurber house in columbus ohio or former cia officer nicholas reynolds talk on ernest hemingway's connections to soviet and us intelligence services. >> and next saturday, we will be live at the 50th anniversary will and atlas book festival in maryland state capital with discussions on criminal justice, income inequality and terrorism and intelligence featuring former director of the cia and the national security agency michael hayden. that's a look at some of the programs book tv will be covering this week, many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on book tv on c-span2.>> c-span: where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >>

march 27, 1953, dwight eisenhower won a victory over joseph mccarthy. the nominee for the ambassador to the soviet union was confirmed 74-13. he had been fiercely opposed by joe mccarthy. eisenhower crumbled that the only thing joe mccarthy wanted was headlines. mccarthy ran for the presidency in 1956 and the president declared the only reason i would consider running again is to run against him. knowing eisenhower, he probably punctuated that with a theologically incorrect expletives. you can think about that. fast forward to december 2, 1954. on that day, joe mccarthy had a vote of 67-22. after mccarthy stood up to speak on the senate floor, the chamber was empty. when he sat down with other senators in the dining room, his colleagues would make lame excuses and leave a. of the reporters who had one sononcehung on his every word we gone. late 1955 the army council visited mccarthy and his home in 1955. they sat down with 6 ounces of jim. he looked awful, he recalled. he lost about 40 pounds in his hands shook. jane trickled from the corners of his mout

gone to at had scratchy senator from minnesota named jean shows -- eugene joseph mccarthy about whether he would run for president or not. it is a very eerie moment. it brings history alive. our talk today is about that, about revisiting these living periods in history. perhaps we will come away less certain about things. for that i introduce steve young , who was the director of a co-round table. he was the former dean of the hamlin rust -- hamlin" minnesota , another at harvard -- she was it in there. he has been active in politics of the state and nation for quite a while. he is one of minnesota's -- the nations, farmers experts on asian issues. his father was ambassador to thailand in the kennedy administration, he spent a good deal of his youth in thailand. goes back there every other week. i would say welcome to steve. [applause] >> thank you very much. things to the humphrey institute, not only for this seminar, but for all that it does. brieflylike to tell you a little bit about myself. to set the context for what i will reveal. that i want to tell you a story about lyndon johns

justice brennan was opposed by senator joseph mccarthy because he made a speech decrying overzealous anticommunist investigations as witch-hunts. but on march 19, 1957, justice brennan was confirmed by the senate almost unanimously. the only no vote was senator mccarthy. and let's take another look at those vacancies that occurred before the general election where the nomination also occurred before the general election. we have william johnson in 1804 being nominated by president jefferson. on january 26, justice alfred moore had stepped down because of declining health, and two months later, president jefferson nominated william johnson. two days after that nomination, he was confirmed to the senate, also by a voice vote. and then we turn to a couple of nominations the senate considered but rejected them through votes to table the nominations. under president tyler, president tyler nominated edward king in 1844. justice henry baldwin had passed away on april 21. and on june 5, president tyler nominated edward king to fill the seat. but the senate did deliberate on that nomination a