Cohn was a pallbearer for McCarthy. And he wrote a book about him. It came out in 1968. He acknowledged McCarthy had had his faults. He was “impatient, overly aggressive, overly dramatic,” Cohn described. “He acted on impulse. He tended to sensationalize the evidence he had.” He “would neglect to do important homework.” He had an “inattention to detail.” Even so, Cohn said, he was “gifted with a sense of political timing.” And “on balance,” Cohn noted, “his sense of what made drama and headlines was uncommonly good.” He was, he thought, “the first important public figure to touch an exquisitely sensitive nerve in the thought leaders of our society. This small but immensely powerful group of intellectuals
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