12 And the typewriter he recopied them on,
13 And the copies he had typed on the typewriter,
14 And witnesses,
15 aExcept that Hiss denied it all,
16 Since it wasn't true,
17 bBecause Whittaker Chambers was a homosexual,
18 Which made it all pretty obvious,
19 cSomehow.
CHAPTER 1321 After Alger Hiss got convicted of perjury,
2 Somehow,
3 The U.S. Congress started a witch-hunt,
4 Which woke up a monster named dJoseph McCarthy,
5 Who started looking for communists everywhere,
6 Including Washington, D.C.,
7 And the Army,
8 And even Hollywood.
9 eEven though there weren't any communists in Washington or the Army or Hollywood,
10 fNo one really wanted to fight with McCarthy,
11 gBecause McCarthy had lists of names,
12 Which somebody's name might be on,
13 For some reason,
14 And so why risk it,
15 Especially when hMcCarthy also had a pair of vicious legal attack dogs,
16 With names like iRoy Cohn,
17 And jRobert Kennedy,
18 kWho were dying for any chance to end somebody's career,
19 Forever.
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CHAPTER 1331 The McCarthy thing would probably have been a lot worse if the Yanks hadn't had such a decisive lpresident,
2 Who disapproved of McCarthy,
3 And who decided not to pass the buck on the witch-hunt business,
4 mBut to sit on the buck instead,
5 Because sometimes the hardest decision is the decision to do nothing at all,
6 nBut somebody's got to do it,
7 Because that's what presidents are for.
CHAPTER 1341 And McCarthy wasn't the only decisive thing Truman ever did either,
2 Because all of a sudden the communist North Koreans invaded South Korea,
3 And the oUnited Nations met to discuss it,
4 pAnd decided that the Yanks should handle it,
5 qBecause who wants to send their own troops to some far-away gook country to get killed by a bunch of uncivilized animals?
6 rAnd so the Yanks went to Korea,
7 And started taking a dreadful beating,
8 Because they had forgotten to bring a sgeneral,
9 Which made somebody remember MacArthur,
10 tWho was still governor of Japan,
11 And only about a thousand years old.
12 After he took command, MacArthur invaded uInchon,
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