[edshuck]

As I get more into it, I find that he was more and more of an egotist, Turned into a real pain in the butt.

He hated Communists. This made him and McCarthy natural allies in the 1950s when "Tail Gunner Joe" was searching for a way to be reelected.

I am not to the point where he recruits Ronnie Reagan (then president of the screen actors guild) as a junior G man to fink on his membership.