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Joseph McCarthy in his U.S. Marine Corps uniform. In 1942, shortly after the U.S. entered World War II, McCarthy joined the United States Marine Corps, despite the fact that his judicial office exempted him from military service. [31] His college education qualified him for a direct commission, and he entered the Marines as a first lieutenant. [32]
On March 9, 1954, See It Now aired another episode on the issue of McCarthyism, this one attacking Joseph McCarthy himself. Titled "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy", it used footage of McCarthy speeches to portray him as dishonest, reckless, and abusive toward witnesses and prominent Americans. In his concluding comment, Murrow said:
McCarthy's allegiance to Cohn also raised suspicions that the relation between the senator and his chief counsel was not merely professional, or that McCarthy was blackmailed by Cohn. [60] Earlier in 1952, Nevada publisher Hank Greenspun wrote that McCarthy "often engaged in homosexual activities" and was a frequent patron at the White Horse ...
The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States which are referred to by this name. The First Red Scare , which occurred immediately after World War I , revolved around a perceived threat from the American labor movement , anarchist revolution, and political radicalism that followed revolutionary ...
The 1946 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held on November 5, 1946. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Robert La Follette, Jr. (who had until 1946 been a member of the Progressive Party) narrowly lost the primary election to Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy would go on to win the general election against Rep. Howard McMurray of Milwaukee ...
McCarthy ended up being censured by his Senate colleagues and his career was then -- for the most part -- over. Tapper told Colbert when it comes to Trump, he "doesn’t know how it all ends ...
The "fifty-seven card-carrying Communists" phrase first appears in a radio interview that McCarthy gave in Salt Lake City, and is the phrase that appears in the Congressional Record on the speech he gave at Wheeling. [7] McCarthy made a distinction between "card-carrying communists" and what he called "fellow travelers." A card-carrying ...
California Rep. Kevin McCarthy is the first House speaker to be removed from post. What the history of the motion to vacate portends for the GOP without him, per historian Thomas Balcerski.