[Wallace T.]

President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover all turned their back on McCarthy during the censure proceedings that followed the Army-McCarthy hearings. So did the supposedly conservative Southern Democrats like John Stennis and James Eastland. In the 1950s, as is the case today, pseudo-conservatives will back off when faced with a full blown liberal assault.

[DustyMoment]

Eisenhower was a nice man and a great general but, IMO, the country went to sleep during his administration. As a president, he was popular, but largely benign and spent a lot of time playing golf (as I recall). Nixon, like most VPs, was placed in a corner out of sight and told to play quietly. Hoover was too much of a girly-man to get involved.

However, the point I get from your comment is that Republicans have always been linguini-spined and would rather turn tail and run rather than fight for principles, ethics and honor. No different from the current crop of GOP reps, just more visible and more obvious.