Joseph McCarthy

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908–1957) served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period of extreme anti-communist suspicion inspired by the tensions of the Cold War. He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the federal government and elsewhere.

McCarthy publically criticized Mark Gordian's novel Watergate. Pete Lundquist thought that spoke well of the novel.