McCarthywasm: Eisenhower vs Roy Cohn/Schine gay sex scandal threatening US Army: Drumpf/Epstein is Roy Cohn 2.0

 Eisenhower 1956 - David Nichols

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Eisenhower’s Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy 

Eisenhower’s Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy 2017 book 

Roy Cohn and

G. David Schine were widely rumored to be lovers, and Cohn's romantic interest in Schine is a central theme in documentaries and historical accounts. Cohn, a closeted gay man, used his political influence to try and secure special treatment for Schine during his military service, which ultimately became a catalyst for the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings when Schine was drafted into the Army as a private. 

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2015/fall/ike-mccarthy

The controversy involved McCarthy’s chief counsel, Roy Cohn, and his frantic attempts to keep Pvt. G. David Schine with him on the subcommittee. Schine had been an unpaid consultant to the subcommittee until he was drafted into the Army. These men were, in the words of Attorney General Herbert Brownell, “inseparable.”

Cohn’s rage over his inability to obtain a special commission for Schine apparently pushed McCarthy into investigating the Army. The attorney’s efforts to secure special privileges for Schine, often involving the senator, was what the Army-McCarthy hearings in mid-1954 were ostensibly about.

Eisenhower carried off his anti-McCarthy operation by means of rigorous delegation to a handful of trusted subordinates; these included Chief of Staff Sherman Adams; Vice President Richard Nixon; Press Secretary James Hagerty; Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr., and his deputy, William Rogers; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., the administration’s representative to the United Nations; and Assistant Secretary of Defense Fred A. Seaton, who collaborated with H. Struve Hensel, the Pentagon’s general counsel. While less intimate with the President, Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens and Army counsel John G. Adams played critical roles. These men were expected, like foot soldiers in war, to put their lives and reputations on the line to protect the President and extinguish the political influence of Joe McCarthy. 

Strong Response to Cohn’s Threat to “Wreck the Army”

On January 21, 1954, at a meeting in Attorney General Brownell’s office, Eisenhower’s chief advisers learned the shocking details about Roy Cohn’s threats to “wreck the Army” to keep Private Schine with him and McCarthy’s subcommittee.

Eisenhower, although not in attendance, now had potent ammunition to use against McCarthy. Sherman Adams ordered John G. Adams, the Army counsel, to write up a report summarizing Cohn’s harassment of the Army. Lodge later called this meeting Eisenhower’s “first move” against McCarthy.