A U.S. Senator's aide comes to camp, trying to root out communists. At the top of his list is Major Houlihan. When she was in nursing school, she spent time with a young man, Wally, who was a part of a "suspicious" organization. Now this guy wants Margaret to implicate people she had fun with when very young. Apparently, this is a kind of Joe McCarthy thing (which was going on at the time this episode was set). Margaret is put between a rock and a hard place because by not implicating these people, she will herself appear un-American. Of all the people that they could have chosen, Margaret would be the least likely to have something to do with a political movement. The guys come to her defense but it is hard for her to find a way out, even though she's done nothing. Just a taste of what it must have been like in the early fifties.
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McCarthyism at the 4077th
safenoe6 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
A visiting congressional aide puts the pressure on Margaret to name names, to be a snitch all in the name of combating communism and the red square. The aide (played by Lawrence R. Pressman) gets his comeuppance when the subplot (Klinger's pursuit of capturing a winning photo) intersects with this main plot.
A thought provoking episode, broadcast three years after Woody Allen's The Front which dealt with the devastating impact of McCarthyism.
A thought provoking episode, broadcast three years after Woody Allen's The Front which dealt with the devastating impact of McCarthyism.
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