Tuesday letters: Decency in politics, airport spending and banking concerns

Tuesday letters: Decency in politics, airport spending and banking concerns

Call for decency in public life Our country needs another Joseph Welch moment. Welch was the lawyer hired by the U.S. Army in 1954 to defend it against allegations of lax security at a top-secret Army facility. The charges were made by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Cold War’s “Red Scare” hearings. After being fed up with McCarthy’s attack on one of his attorneys, Welch confronted the senator: “Until this moment Senator, I think I have never…