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It was crusading journalism

of high responsibility and courage.

For TV so often plagued

by timidity and hesitation...

...the program was a milestone

that reflected enlightened citizenship.

The program... Hold on!

The program was no less

an indictment of those who wish...

...the problems posed

by the Senator's tactics and theatrics...

...would just go away

and leave them alone.

That was Mr. Murrow's

and television's triumph...

...and a very great one.

Here! Here!

- He hated it.

- Yeah. What's his beef?

Send the New York Times

a bottle of Scotch.

I already did. How do you think

we got that review?

- How's the Post?

- Pretty good!

- What about O'Brian?

- Uh, the same.

- Go on, read O'Brian!

- I don't have it.

- Got it.

- Oh. Here.

- There we go.

- Shirley, that...

We can't say we were surprised at

Murrow's "Hate McCarthy" telecast...

...last evening, when his explosively

one-sided propaganda...

...edited with deviously clever

selectivity from McCarthy's march...

...against Communism,

was finished last evening...

...by equally Machiavellian coincidence

the following telecast...

...featured Murrow's PM protg,

Hollenbeck.

In an obviously gloating mood,

Hollenbeck...

...hoped viewers had witnessed

his patron's triumph...

...from and for the Left.

So on. So on...

Shirley, it's okay.

Go ahead, finish it.

- No, that's it. That's it.

- Shirley, please, finish it.

The CBS has been in a lengthy

"clean house of Lefties" mood.

The worst offenders

on lesser levels...

...have been quietly

pushed out of the company.

Don Hollenbeck, a graduate

of the demised pinko publication PM...

...attacked conservative papers

with sly and slanted propaganda.

He then proceeded

through an equally...

...tilted review of the day's events...

...with McCarthy dominating his words,

actions, attitudes.

So on.

- It's O'Brian. - He didn't get

the Scotch, that's all.

- Is it grammatically correct?

- I'll have that cigarette, Ed.

- Thanks, Shirley.

- Oh. - Mmh. - Thank you.

Joe... Shirley...

It doesn't matter.

To Jack Gould!

- To Jack! To Jack! To Jack Gould!

- To Jack Gould!

I love Jack Gould!

May he rest in peace.

- Hello, Jimmy.

- Fred, congratulations! - Thank you.

I got such a hangover

to go along with the ulcer.

All the ad guys on the 3rd floor

watched the show.

Got a good review

in the New York Times. Jack Gould.

We're putting out a press release...

...saying that calls came in

- Yeah. - 15 to 1?

- We got calls from everywhere.

- East Coast or West Coast?

- Yeah. Kansas City, Cincinnati...

Mr. Paley...

- Morning, Fred.

- Morning, Mr. Paley.

How's your wife?

She's fine.

We're getting ready to move.

- Really? Where to? - Riverdale.

We found a nice house there.

It's nice there.

Yes, sir.

Excuse me.

Fred! McCarthy wants William Buckley

to do his rebuttal.

I said no.

Yes, sir.

Hey, Johnny!

- Radulovich has been reinstated.

- What?!

Radulovich... Guys!

Radulovich has been reinstated.

- Jesse! Jesse!

- Where is Ed?

- He's in the bullpen. Why?

What's going on? - Jess!

Got some very good news.

Special announcement

from the Secretary of the Air Force!

Fellas! Listen up! Everyone!

I have decided

that it is consistent...

...with the interests

of the National Security to retain...

...Lieutenant Radulovich

in the United States Air Force. Stop.

He is not, in my opinion,

a security risk. Full stop.

There you go. Harold E. Talbott,

Secretary from the Air Force.

Great job!

- Make a copy of that for me!

- I will do, Fred!

Back to work, guys!

We got a lot of work to do.

This means something.

- Good news, huh?

- Congratulations!

- This absolutely means something.

- Absolutely. This is the start of...

Palmer!

The CBS lawyers wanna talk to you.

When?

Tomorrow.

I don't want you to get paranoid,

they're talking to everybody.

Any ideas?

Just tell them what you know.

- Now is that testimony true?

- No, sir, it is not.

Not at any time have I been

a member of the Communist Party...

...and I have never seen

a Communist card.

- You've never seen a Communist card?

- That's right.

Have you ever attended

any Communist meetings?

No, sir, never.

Have you ever subscribed

to The Daily Worker?

No, sir. I didn't subscribe to it

and I wouldn't pay for it.

Uh... Now, Mrs. Markward,

who was working for the FBI...

...who joined the Communist Party

under orders from the FBI...

...has testified that while

she never met you personally...

...at a Communist meeting

that your name was on the list...

...of Communists

who were paying dues.

Uh... Can you shed

any light upon that?

No, sir. I don't even know

what the dues are...

...or where they were paid.

- So you have never paid any money...

...to the Communist Party.

- Is that correct?

- That's right.

You've never paid

any dues, payment...

Thank you very much, Leo!

Good work, Joe, Charlie.

Now what is the show?

Is it defending Annie Lee Moss

as not being a Communist?

- Or is it her Constitutional rights?

- Both. - The latter.

We're much better sticking out

the Constitutional issues.

- Agreed?

- The woman is not a Communist spy.

Joe McCarthy said that they have

a spy in the Pentagon...

...that spy has gotten

into the code room...

...and that that spy

is Annie Lee Moss.

I've got New York Times reports.

McCarthy asserts he has...

...a new red link to Army. Quote,

"Senator McCarthy charged today..."

"...that the Army now employs

a woman in its code room..."

"...who was, and still may be,

an active Communist."

It's the front page

of the New York Times.

No sooner is he done chastising the

other committee members for wanting...

...to push into the afternoon,

than what? Seven questions in...

...he ducks out, leaves...

- Right.

- He leaves. - It's all over

the headlines, all over the country.

Get me copies from any newspaper...

...that printed anything

about that assertion.

That's a good idea. You should get

the Cincinnati Inquirer.

- Chicago. - Couple other pieces

I think we should include.

The fact that there's 3 Annie Lee Moss's

in the phone book.

There are 2 Robert Halls,

one's colored, one's white.

We have some footage

of the empty chair.

I think that says it all.

Just that picture of McCarthy not...

McCarthy leaving the hearing

after 7 questions...

...and then we'll cut

to the shot of the chair.

- We gotta do something about it.

- All right, so...

Excuse me. Mr. Murrow!

McCarthy wants April 6th.

Thank you, Natalie.

Fine. If Charlie shoots it, we get

to see it first. We should offer.

- It's a long shot.

- What the hell could McCarthy do?

Is he gonna debate himself?

We just used his words!

Johnny! Johnny! We know

what it's going to be.

He's going to come after me.

There's nothing more he can do.

He's gonna bet that

a Senator trumps a newsman.

He'll lose.

Not if we're playing bridge.

- I'm sorry, guys. I didn't mean

to interrupt. - Hey, Don.

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