The other day, I was listening to George Reisman’s wonderful speech, Memories of Mises, Rothbard, and Rand (Recorded 08-02-2005). There’s a part in it where he plays for the audience a recording of a speech he gave in the 1950s at a Roy Cohn event at which McCarthy was present. Rothbard wrote the entire speech, and Reisman delivered it (he told me that he made only one editorial change, which was the deletion of a reference to God; he also thought perhaps Ralph Raico made another change; I checked with Ralph but did not hear back yet). (Raico alludes to this “Roy Cohn” speech too in his own talk: The Mises Circle: Memoirs of Hayek in Chicago and Rothbard in New York (Recorded at the Mises University on 08/01/2005).)

As is evident from Reisman’s 2005 speech, the Mises Institute audience got a kick out of the recording, but it’s too muffled to hear on the MP3. I asked Reisman for the original recording and he sent it to me: it’s here. I have been unable to get the transcript of the speech, but it’s fairly clear. Great stuff.