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10 seconds.
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5, 4,3, 2.
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And pan, camera one.
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Because a report on Senator McCarthy
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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...what ever remarks Murrow
and Friendly may make.
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If the Senator feels that we have done
violence to his words or pictures...
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...and desires to answer himself...
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...an opportunity will be afforded him
on this program.
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Our working thesis tonight
is this quotation:
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..."If this fight
against Communism..."
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"...has made a fight between
America's two great political parties..."
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"...the American people know that one
of these parties will be destroyed..."
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"...and the Republic cannot endure
very long as a one-party system."
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We applaud that statement...
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...and we think
Senator McCarthy ought to.
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He said it
17 months ago in Milwaukee.
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The American people realize
that this cannot be made a fight...
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...between America's
two great political parties.
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If this fight against Communism...
:40:16
...is made a fight against America's
two great political parties...
:40:19
...the American people know that one
of those parties will be destroyed...
:40:22
...and the Republic can't endure
very long as a one-party system.
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On one thing the Senator
has been consistent.
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Often operating as a one-man
committee, he has traveled far...
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...interviewed many,
terrorized some...
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...accused civilian
and military leaders...
:40:37
...of the past administration
of a great conspiracy...
:40:40
...to turn over the country
to Communism.
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I was extremely shocked when I heard
that Secretary Stevens...
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...told 2 Army officers that they had
to take part in the cover up...
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...of those who promoted
and coddled Communists.
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As I read his statement, I...
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...thought of that quotation,
"On what meat..."