Dwight Eisenhower found Joseph McCarthy's demagoguery reprehensible. As a military man he had been able to distance himself from petty political crusades in the name of the greater cause.

Take, for example, McCarthy’s last great political assault, on the army, which proved his undoing when the army and the Eisenhower administration finally decided to fight back with enough fury ...

Although senator McCarthy yesterday affirmed his loyalty to the Eisenhower administration, the antagonism between the two opposing Republican camps still smoulders. In a radio and television ...

McCarthy accused him of being part of a conspiracy against America. During his campaign to become president, the future president - Dwight D Eisenhower - chose not to defend Marshall in public ...

Dwight Eisenhower, they say, is not a politician. But last week he took care of himself against attacks by two politicians, Republican Joe McCarthy and the new Democratic national chairman ...

While refusing to comment publicly on Brown v. Board of Education, Eisenhower made it clear that he would uphold the Constitution. Violent protests erupted in Tennessee and Texas as issues of ...