McCarthy as a senator was someone who was in danger of losing his position as a government official. So, to save himself, "He went to Wheeling, West Virginia [...] and gave a speech in which he waved a piece of paper from the Federal Bureau of Investigation" and McCarthy decided to make a wild claim that a piece of paper contained the names “of 205 so-called card-carrying communists still working for the US State Department.” As expected, he was “challenged to produce evidence, (and) failed to do so” (Wilson 2). This correlates to the court scene, where the prosecutor gives a document to Danforth, to “Declare their good opinion of Rebecca, and (the prosecutor's wife) and Martha Correy. And John Proctor has little evidence, he tries to say "These are all landowners, church members" to make his claims sound better. (Miller 87). The similarities between these quotes are in presenting that John Proctor and McCarthy needed to save themselves and their loved ones. Because Joseph McCarthy didn't care about anyone else, or how people would react, he manipulated the fear of the Red Scare to favor him; so he could save his government position by saying that the US government had people in office who were communists. Where people reacted negatively and people were more likely to side with McCarthy. Proctor did something similar by creating a document where they just said things without evidence that could be validated; John Proctor just had people sign a paper saying that people should believe that he and his family were good people. Since he had no way to get evidence that he was a good person, and McCarthy also had no way to get credibility, their original intentions were not fulfilled, because they both thought their word was enough to save