Step 1 : Introduction to the question "9. Who rather famously (and infamously) raved that he had a list of 205 Communist Party members in the State Department?"
...1. Sen. John Stennis 2. Sen. Barry Goldwater 3. Sen. Joseph McCarthy 4. Sen. Jesse Helms Tailgunner Joe jumped onto the bandwagon AFTER Alger Hiss (who actually WAS a Communist in the State Department) had been convicted. While there was certainly no shortage of lefties at Foggy Bottom, McCarthy's scattershot charges were absurd and indefensible. He later went so far as to suggest that Gen. George Marshall was a traitor. As one might suspect, McCarthy was no stranger to the bottle, and ended up drinking himself to death in May, 1957.
