Lew describes the two types of heroic and effective legislators: (1) The Advocate, who takes political risks to stand up for policies or views that other politicians refuse to touch (Example: Dr. Ron Paul); and (2) The Champion, who at great political risk takes a leadership position on an issue or bill, skillfully gathering support for it as they shepherd it through the process to victory. A prime example of “The Champion” type was Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada, who served from 1932-1954 in the Senate.
McCarran, a Democrat, led the fight to prevent the powerful Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) from packing the Supreme Court in an attempt to take complete government control of the U.S. economy. After weathering an attempt by FDR to defeat him at the next election, McCarran spoke out against the American role in financing the Soviet Union, a byproduct of the U.S. entry into WWII.
After surviving another electoral challenge led by leftwing labor groups in 1944, McCarran became the Chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee in the U.S. Senate, where he rammed through two critical legislative victories over the veto of President Harry Truman.
The first one required registration of all communist organizations in America. The second one was the massive immigration bill, the McCarran-Walter Act., that restricted immigration by both number and type, and screened applicants for communist or criminal ties.
That law, passed in 1952, would survive until until 1965, despite intense pressure from the Left and the administrations of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.
McCarran also initiated and chaired in the Senate Judiciary Committee the most wide-ranging and consequential of the anti-communist hearings in the Congress in 1951-52, with an assist from special guest Sen. Joseph McCarthy. This investigation was conducted against the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) affiliated Institute for Pacific Relations (IPR).
The probe led by McCarran exposed both agent-of-influence efforts to tilt U.S. policy toward the Communist Mao to allow his victory in China, and the actual theft of top secret government documents to aid the Chinese Reds. It also revealed the communist propaganda transmission belt from the Tax-Free Foundations to the universities that flowed through IPR, and the fact that the Institute’s academic magazine Amerasia had been edited by a member of the Communist Party-USA.
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