The second Red Scare continues: After six weeks of investigating the United states Army (private mercenaries) for communist influence, Joseph N. Welch, chief counsel for the U.s. Army, challenges Republican (fascist/socialist) de facto senator Joseph R. McCarthy, Esq., of wisconsin:

       You’ve done enough.  Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?  Have you left no sense of decency?  … Mr. McCarthy, I will not discuss this further with you. You have sat within six feet of me and could have asked me about Fred[erick G.] Fisher[, Jr.]  You have seen fit to bring it out.  And if there is a God in Heaven it will do neither you nor your cause any good.  I will not discuss it further.

       Welch was responding at McCarthy’s attempted character assassination of Fisher, an attorney with Welch’s law firm and a former member of the National Lawyers Guild.

       NOTES:

• Many historians cite this as the beginning of the end of McCarthy’s bid for a national power base, as he was censured by the senate six months later.