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HERBLOCK, Washington Post
Members of the Senate were divided in their reaction to Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy's hearings to root out communism. Scott Lucas, a Democrat from Illinois, supported State Department employees working in fear of false allegation and challenged McCarthy, calling him a "liar." Owen Lattimore, a State Department employee, who had been falsely accused of being a "top Soviet espionage agent," argued that McCarthy was guilty of "Russian-type smears." In 1950, Herblock portrayed McCarthy as a lone actor, but, by 1954 the senator's investigative committee had ended many careers. |