"Fact from Fiction: Joseph McCarthy the Tail Gunner" Topic
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Tango01 | 12 May 2020 9:26 p.m. PST |
"Joe McCarthy didn't have to go to war. His job as an elected circuit judge in Appleton, Wisconsin, was important enough to exempt him from military service. It would be nice to say that he volunteered for the best of reasons: a strong sense of duty, a hatred of fascism. It would also be untrue. To his thinking, frontline action was an essential requirement for young politicians. There was but one rule to remember: One had to survive in order to exploit it. The judgeship bored McCarthy. He viewed himself as a politician, and he had told everyone within earshot of his desire to seek "real" political office. Then the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Like many office seekers, McCarthy knew the value of a war record, and he told a fellow judge, Urban Van Susteren, that he must enlist at once. Van Susteren remembered advising him: "Look, if you've got to be a hero to be a politician, join the marines." McCarthy agreed. Early in 1942 he entered a leatherneck recruit- ing office in Milwaukee and signed on the dotted line…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Blutarski | 13 May 2020 11:29 a.m. PST |
LBJ also knew the political value of being perceived as a military hero. Check the very interesting background behind the Silver Star awarded to LBJ by MacArthur in 1942. Politics had absolutely NOTHING to do with it. I promise. ;-) B |
William Warner | 13 May 2020 11:51 a.m. PST |
Great article. I really enjoyed it. |
Tango01 | 13 May 2020 12:30 p.m. PST |
Happy for that my friend!. (smile) Amicalement Armand
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