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“Have you no sense of decency?”

“On June 9, 1954, McCarthy again became agitated at Welch’s steady destruction of each of his arguments and witnesses. In response, McCarthy charged that Frederick G. Fisher, a young associate in Welch’s law firm, had been a long-time member of an organization that was a ‘legal arm of the Communist Party.’ Welch was stunned. As he struggled to maintain his composure, he looked at McCarthy and declared, ‘Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.’ It was then McCarthy’s turn to be stunned into silence, as Welch asked, ‘Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?’” 

“The audience of citizens and newspaper and television reporters burst into wild applause. Just a week later, the hearings into the Army came to a close. McCarthy, exposed as a reckless bully, was officially condemned by the U.S. Senate for contempt against his colleagues in December 1954. During the next two-and-a-half years McCarthy spiraled into alcoholism. Still in office, he died in 1957.”