"Okay, Ed, now I've gotten the ice. When are you gonna stand up to McCarthy?"
— Bill Downs

January 1, 1970

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Challenging a reluctant Murrow to take on Senator Joseph McCarthy on his new television show See It Now (1953 or 1954), as quoted in A.M. Sperber's Murrow: His Life and Times.