Quote Originally Posted by sharrukin
I wonder why such an evil and wretched man was asked to be the godfather for Robert Kennedy's daughter Kathleen? And why in 1953 was Robert Kennedy working with Senator McCarthy?
Because Robert was a fanatic in his youth and only later, gradually, realised some of his major mistakes, as he acknowledged in 1953 when he resigned from McCarthy's Committee because of 'the way that the Committee was being run'. And in those days both Robert and John were heavily dependent on their crook father Joe Kennedy who shared, shall we say, certain interests with Joe McCarthy, ranging from illegal money making schemes to flings with fascism.
Quote Originally Posted by sharrukin
Charles E. Ford, an attorney for Edward Rothschild in the Government Printing Office hearings, was so impressed with McCarthy's fairness (..)
A lot of people grovelled to McCarthy in those days, and the words of the lawyer of someone who made a narrow escape have little to no weight.