Marc YachtMarch 23, 2015
5min249
Joseph Nye Welch was the head counsel for the United States Army under investigation during Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s, Army-McCarthy hearings. McCarthy had just grilled a young Harvard lawyer when Welch commented to McCarthy: “Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness…. Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. […]