David Remnick
speaker
3,736 appearances
77 recordings
13 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3d ago
David Remnick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When as a kid I was interested in the McCarthy period and there was this very, very young aide sitting at the elbow of Joe McCarthy.
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But where does he come f where does he come from?
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What are his roots?
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By the time Cohen was twenty four, he was part of the team that prosecuted the married couple that's now known to history as the as the Rosenbergs, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
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Tell me about that case and the role that Cohen played in it.
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One of the people he encountered
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When he then moved on to work for Senator Joe McCarthy, uh the Republican from Wisconsin who was really the the
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big red hunter in the Senate, one of the people he encountered there was Robert F.
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Kennedy.
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What was that?
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What what what happened there?
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One of the interesting things I I I didn't quite fully appreciate, and you make it very plain in in American Scoundrel.
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Cohn's battle was not only against communists or communism, it's also the liberal establishment which in his mind
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was embodied by a republican president president Dwight Eisenhower
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just a mere aide, Roy Cohn was the doctor evil of the operation.
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But how did they do that in the f in the fifties?
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It's a very different media environment and very different political environment.
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How did that play out?
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Innuendo.
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Wow, because what we what we remember of Joe Welsh is one soundbite.
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