55 years ago today - May 22, 1962

Ezra Taft Benson wrote that [Senator] McCarthy "rendered a service in emphasizing the insidious threat of the Communist influence in government."

[Source: Benson to H. Roland Tietjen, president of the Hawaiian LDS temple, 22 May 1962, archives, Lee Library. From D. Michael Quinn, Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26:2 (Summer 1992), also in Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power Salt Lake City (Signature Books, 1994), Chapter 3.]

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