After McCarthy's speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, a telegram was sent to Harry S. Truman, the current President. This telegram entailed all of McCarthy's accusations with full detail on how Truman should go about disposing of the said "communists". Truman replied, telling McCarthy how ridiculous his claims were and how he shouldn't even be a part of the government at all.
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The next month, a Senate subcommittee launched an investigation and found no proof of any subversive activity. Even though many of his fellow Democratic and Republican collegues dissagreed with his tactics, McCarthy kept on with his so-called Red-Baiting campiagn. Joseph R. McCarthy was put in charge of the Committee on Government Operations, which allowed him to launch even more expansive investigations of the alleged communist infiltration of the federal government. After many extensive heraings, aggressivly interrogating witnesses, more than 2000 gavernment employees lost their jobs due to these investigations.
Edward R. Murrow said this in his conclusion of the "See it Now" episode titled: "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy", aired on April 6, 1954.