"Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they've been sent to do their traitorous work."
"Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general."
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Source: Remark to Gen. Ralph Zwicker during the Army investigations (18 February 1954), as quoted in A Conspiracy So Immense by David M. Oshinsky, 2005.
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