With respect to McCarthy, I continue to believe that the President of the United States cannot afford to name names in opposing procedures, practices and methods in our government. This applies with
special force when the individual concerned enjoys the immunity of a United States Senator. This
particular individual wants, above all else, publicity. Nothing would probably please him more than to
get the publicity that would be
generated by public repudiation by the President...
It is a sorry mess; at times one feels almost like hanging his head in shame when he reads some of the
unreasoned, vicious outbursts of demagoguery that appear in our public prints. But whether a
Presidential "crack down" would better, or would actually worsen, the situation, is a moot question.

According to this letter, why doesn’t Eisenhower speak out against McCarthy?

Do you think that the President was right? Or should he have denounced McCarthy and his tactics? Why or why not?