In this undated (and apparently unsent) reply, President Truman states that Senator Joseph McCarthy is not fit to serve in the U.S. government, adding that the people of Wisconsin must be very sorry to be represented in the Senate by such a person.
The reply was drafted in response to a telegram Truman received from McCarthy. In it, McCarthy asserted that he had the names of fifty-seven Communists who were working in the State Department, and called upon the President to provide Congress with a full accounting of Communist infiltration of the Department, including the role of alleged Communist spy Alger Hiss in protecting security risks.
