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In a speech in February 1950, McCarthy claimed to have a list of members of the Communist Party USA working in the State Department, which attracted substantial press attention, and the term McCarthyism was published for the first time in late March of that year in The Christian Science Monitor, along with a political cartoon by Herblock in The ...
Senator McCarthy's first three years in the Senate were unremarkable. [59] McCarthy was a popular speaker, invited by many different organizations, covering a wide range of topics. His aides and many in the Washington social circle described him as charming and friendly, and he was a popular guest at cocktail parties.
1954 – Censure or formal disapproval on Senator Joseph McCarthy after the Army-McCarthy hearings. He died three years later in 1957. 1954 – President Eisenhower proposes the Domino theory : If South Vietnam fell to communism, so too would all nations of Southeast Asia, and eventually worldwide.
Senator Joseph McCarthy, namesake of McCarthyism The second Red Scare occurred after World War II (1939–1945), and is known as " McCarthyism " after its best-known advocate, Senator Joseph McCarthy .
McCarthy had talked of "twenty years of treason" (i.e. since Roosevelt's election in 1932). When, in 1953, he started talking of "21 years of treason" and launched a major attack on the Army for promoting a communist dentist in the medical corps, his recklessness proved too much for Eisenhower, who encouraged Republicans to censure McCarthy ...
Former Rep. Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker of the House in January 2023 but was not elected on the first ballot. ... House Republicans move to change rules for vacating speakership 1 year ...
The next election will mark the first time in two decades McCarthy is not on a ballot after serving 17 years. McCarthy has won all nine elections by wide margins, but opted not to seek a 10th term.
Monthly magazine Vanity Fair is facing backlash for a recent article that some readers say romanticizes author Cormac McCarthy’s relationship with Augusta Britt. Augusta was a 16-year-old ...