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I suggest we tread a bit carefully here. My credentials as a conservative Republican are unassailable. However, I personally well remember the McCarthy Hearings in January, 1954 like it was yesterday.

McCarthy, without a shred of evidence, unleashed a vitriolic diatribe against the US Army (with the support of a thoroughly disreputable assistant, a sullied homosexual by the name of Cohn).

Robert Walsh, the superby competent counsel for the Army, shredded both McCarthy and Cohn (for both vicious slander and malicious lies) to the degree that the McCarthy Hearings were shortly thereafter brought to an abrupt end...and McCarthy was censured by the House for "abuse of his position and scurrulous conduct".

So much for Joe McCarthy. My contacts in Appleton, Wisc. have relayed to me that McCarthy should have been hospitalized for acute alcoholism even before the Hearings commenced; and was incapacitated a large part of the time...and subject to violent outbursts and fits of depression.

My point here is that Ann's case would have been much better served had she not treaded into these murky -- and most dangerous -- waters.