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[4] [5] [6] Historians have suggested since the 1980s that as McCarthy's involvement was less central than that of others, a different and more accurate term should be used instead that more accurately conveys the breadth of the phenomenon, and that the term McCarthyism is, in the modern day, outdated.
In any event, McCarthy did not sue Greenspun for libel. (He was told that if the case went ahead he would be compelled to take the witness stand and to refute the charges made in the affidavit of the young man, which was the basis for Greenspun's story.) In 1953, he married Jean Fraser Kerr, a researcher in his office.
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. [56] Earlier in 1952, Nevada publisher Hank Greenspun wrote that McCarthy "often engaged in homosexual activities" and was a frequent patron at the White Horse ...
McCarthyism coincided with an increased and widespread fear of communist espionage that was consequent of the increasing tension in the Cold War through the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe, the Berlin Blockade (1948–49), the end of the Chinese Civil War, the confessions of spying for the Soviet Union that were made by several high-ranking ...
In an act of modern McCarthyism, Kentucky's GOP leaders aim to erase the already few Black people in education through racist, anti-DEI measures. In an act of modern McCarthyism, Kentucky's GOP ...
Under Malin's guidance, membership tripled to 30,000 by 1955 – the start of 24 years of continual growth leading to 275,000 members in 1974. [190] Malin also presided over an expansion of local ACLU affiliates. [190] The ACLU, controlled by an elite of a few dozen New Yorkers, became more democratic in the 1950s.
Dec. 6—Rep. Kevin McCarthy has decided not to run for reelection following his unprecedented ouster as House Speaker, ending the Bakersfield Republican's run as a senior GOP figure who raised ...
It is without a doubt important to keep the United States strong in terms of its national security; however, this “modern-day McCarthyism” is just flat-out racist prejudice on the part of ...