Joseph Raymond McCarthy, a relatively obscure Republican senator from Wisconsin, announces during a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, that he has in his hand a list of 205 communists who have infiltrated the U.S. State Department. The unsubstantiated declaration, which was little more than a publicity stunt, suddenly thrust Senator McCarthy into the national spotlight.
Asked to reveal the names on the list, the reckless and opportunistic senator named officials he determined guilty by association, such as Owen Lattimore, an expert on Chinese culture and affairs who had advised the State Department. McCarthy described Lattimore as the “top Russian spy” in America.
These and other equally shocking accusations prompted the Senate to form a special committee, headed by Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland, to investigate the matter. The committee found little to substantiate McCarthy’s charges, but McCarthy nevertheless touched a nerve in the American public, and during the next two years he made increasingly sensational charges, even attacking President Harry S. Truman’s respected former secretary of state, George C. Marshall.
In 1953, a newly Republican Congress appointed McCarthy chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of Governmental Operations, and “McCarthyism” reached a fever pitch. In widely publicized hearings, McCarthy bullied defendants under cross-examination with unlawful and damaging accusations, destroying the reputations of hundreds of innocent citizens and officials.
In the early months of 1954, McCarthy, who had already lost the support of much of his party because of his bullying tactics, finally overreached himself when he took on the U.S. Army. Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower pushed for an investigation of McCarthy’s conduct, and the televised hearings exposed the senator as a reckless and excessive tyrant who never produced proper documentation for any of his charges. In December, the Senate voted to condemn him for misconduct. By the time of his death from alcoholism in 1957, the influence of Senator Joseph McCarthy in Congress was negligible.
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And then he joined The Beatles.
That would be McCartney, not McCarthy. Begin by reading.
“By the time of his death from alcoholism in 1957, the influence of Senator Joseph McCarthy in Congress was negligent”
Thank goodness, otherwise we would not have such an attractive covey of congressional communist peacocks taking up nest in the people’s house.
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum- MAGA !
Joe has been proven right by the events of the last 65 years.
McCarthy was right and still is right.
He and others were Right and their faults are nothing compared to the vicious corruption of the Communist who control America and are destroying her. One day TPTB will start Chaos; please pray all Hell is then unleashed on them and it will become the end of their plague on America.
take your pick of the sources i’m putting here–never again let anyone say mccarthy was a bad guy,he was a patriotic american–
furthermore,even when he himself was being attacked,even by his fellow republicans,he at no time betrayed his trust & used the existence of the venona papers to defend himself–
https://www.google.com/search?q=venona+papers+mccarthy&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS775US775&oq=venona+papers&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.10534j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Communists, Fascists, and NEO-CONs, are all that has EVER been in the State Department. They have all worked equally hard at undermining America’s safety.
They sure did a good smear job on a man that was right. They continue doing the same thing to people who tell the truth today, that is, if they just don’t kill you instead.