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And pan camera one.
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Because a report on Senator McCan'thy
is by definition controversial...
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... we want to say exactly
what we mean to say...
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... and request your permission
to read from a script...
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...whatever remarks
Murrow and Friendly may make.
:41:18
If the senator feels that we have done
violence to his words or pictures...
:41:21
...and desires, so to speak,
to answer himself...
:41:24
...an opportunity will be afforded
him on this program.
:41:27
Our working thesis tonight
is this quotation:
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"If this fight against Communism
has made a fight...
:41:33
...between America's
two political parties...
:41:35
...the American people know one
of these parties will be destroyed...
:41:39
...and the republic cannot endure
very long as a one-party system."
:41:43
We applaud that statement
and we think Senator McCan'thy ought to.
:41:47
He said it 17 months ago in Milwaukee.
:41:51
The American people realize
that this cannot be made a fight...
:41:54
... between America"s two political parties.
:41:57
If this fight against Communism
is made a fight...
:41:59
... between America"s
two political parties...
:42:02
... the people know one of those
parties will be destroyed...
:42:05
... and the republic can"t endure
very long as a one-party system.
:42:10
On one thing the senator
has been consistent.
:42:13
Often operating
as a one-man committee...
:42:15
...he has traveled far,
interviewed many, terrorized some...
:42:19
...accused civilian and military leaders
of the past administration...
:42:23
...of a great conspiracy to turn
over the country to Communism.
:42:26
Well, may I say that I was extremely
shocked when I heard that...
:42:29
... Secretary Stevens told two Army officers
that they had to take part in the cover-up...
:42:36
... of those who promoted
and coddled Communists.
:42:38
As I read his statement
I thought of that quotation:
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"On what meat doth
this our Caesar feed?"
:42:49
The question is, did the Civil Liberties Union
supply you with an attorney?
:42:52
They did supply an attorney.
:42:54
- The answer is yes?
- The answer is yes.
:42:56
Do you think this book
did considerable harm, its publication...