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In researching his movie, Clooney boasted, “we had to go back to the actual initial footage of the Army-McCarthy hearings and watch them all the way through. And we did, all of them, 36 days' worth.” From these 36 days of hearings, Antonio cherry-picked the 97 minutes of footage that put McCarthy in the worst light for ''Point of Order,'' a documentary that became the main source of the principal surviving image of McCarthy.<ref>Robert D. Novak, “[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/360baygp.asp McCarthy=Bad],” ''The Weekly Standard'', Vol. 13, No. 11 (November 26, 2007)</ref> (This film in turn was edited still further into a 47-minute version, ''Charge and Countercharge'', for exhibition in public-school classrooms&mdash;thus forming an entire generation's view of McCarthy.)<ref>As late as 2006, the teachers' guide to the popular American History textbook ''The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society" recommends both films as enrichment materials. (Mark Simon, ''[http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~rbrooki1/Kennesaw%20State/Fall%202008%202112/American%20People%20Instructor%27s%20Guide.pdf Teaching ''The American People'': A Guide for Instructors]'' (Pearson Education, Inc.,  2006) ISBN 0-321-39894-7, p. 138. Cf. </ref>

In researching his movie, Clooney boasted, “we had to go back to the actual initial footage of the Army-McCarthy hearings and watch them all the way through. And we did, all of them, 36 days' worth.” From these 36 days of hearings, Antonio cherry-picked the 97 minutes of footage that put McCarthy in the worst light for ''Point of Order,'' a documentary that became the main source of the principal surviving image of McCarthy.<ref>Robert D. Novak, “[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/360baygp.asp McCarthy=Bad],” ''The Weekly Standard'', Vol. 13, No. 11 (November 26, 2007)</ref> (This film in turn was edited still further into a 47-minute version, ''Charge and Countercharge'', for exhibition in public-school classrooms&mdash;thus forming an entire generation's view of McCarthy.)<ref>As late as 2006, the teachers' guide to the popular American History textbook ''The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society" recommends both films as enrichment materials. (Mark Simon, ''[http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~rbrooki1/Kennesaw%20State/Fall%202008%202112/American%20People%20Instructor%27s%20Guide.pdf Teaching ''The American People'': A Guide for Instructors]'' (Pearson Education, Inc.,  2006) ISBN 0-321-39894-7, p. 138. Cf. </ref>

Bursting into tears, Welch fled the Senate caucus room to the applause of the reporters and cameramen packing the gallery.<ref>Paul F. Boller, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=cA8Q1Ev7ol4C Not so!: popular myths about America from Columbus to Clinton]'' (Oxford University Press US, 1996) ISBN 0195109724, p. 165. Cf. Robert Griffith, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=ViXaw6NSkrYC The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate]'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 1987) ISBN 0870235559, p. 259</ref> Tears still coursing, according to liberal pundit Nicholas Von Hoffman, Welch winked at reporter John Newhouse,<ref>Nicholas Von Hoffman, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=cwesxAPx4RkC Citizen Cohn]'' (Doubleday, 1988) ISBN 0385236905, p. 237</ref> best known today as the author of ''Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order''. Once safely beyond reach of the TV cameras, according to his assistant, “Welch looked at me and without changing his expression, the tears still streaming down his face, asked, 'Well, how did it go?'”<ref>Richard M. Fried, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=pVatMuvNTsoC Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective]'' (Oxford University Press US, 1991) ISBN 0195043618, p. 216. Cf. Arthur Herman, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=DIibZoDyADEC Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator]'' (Simon and Schuster, 2000) ISBN 0684836254, p. 276; Tom Wicker, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=XZlMJehEbIAC Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy]'' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006) ISBN 015101082X, p. 163</ref>

Bursting into tears, Welch fled the Senate caucus room to the applause of the reporters and cameramen packing the gallery.<ref>Paul F. Boller, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=cA8Q1Ev7ol4C Not so!: popular myths about America from Columbus to Clinton]'' (Oxford University Press US, 1996) ISBN 0195109724, p. 165. Cf. Robert Griffith, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=ViXaw6NSkrYC The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate]'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 1987) ISBN 0870235559, p. 259</ref> Tears still coursing, according to liberal pundit Nicholas Von Hoffman, Welch winked at reporter John Newhouse,<ref>Nicholas Von Hoffman, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=cwesxAPx4RkC Citizen Cohn]'' (Doubleday, 1988) ISBN 0385236905, p. 237</ref> best known today as the author of ''Imperial America: The Bush Assault on the World Order''. Once safely beyond reach of the TV cameras, Welch turned to his assistant and asked, 'Well, how did it go?'”<ref>Richard M. Fried, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=pVatMuvNTsoC Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective]'' (Oxford University Press US, 1991) ISBN 0195043618, p. 216. Cf. Arthur Herman, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=DIibZoDyADEC Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator]'' (Simon and Schuster, 2000) ISBN 0684836254, p. 276; Tom Wicker, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=XZlMJehEbIAC Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy]'' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006) ISBN 015101082X, p. 163</ref>

McCarthy had “already gone after the Army and accused 'em of being traitors,” according to Clooney. “So Secretary [of the Army Robert T.] Stevens and those guys were like, ''[Expletive deleted] you, we're going to get you any way we can.''” (Italics in original.)

McCarthy had “already gone after the Army and accused 'em of being traitors,” according to Clooney. “So Secretary [of the Army Robert T.] Stevens and those guys were like, ''[Expletive deleted] you, we're going to get you any way we can.''” (Italics in original.)