“Have you no sense of decency?”
Those words were spoken in 1954 by Boston attorney Joseph Welch, who was defending the Army against specious charges by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R.-Wis., that it had allowed communists to infiltrate a secret military facility.
Revealed to the American public as having no decency when it came to grandstanding, McCarthy’s four-year witch hunt to persecute communists finally ended. So, too, did his political career, leaving in its wake many victims whose views might have been progressive but weren’t communist.
