Joseph McCarthy, U.S. senator who lent his name to McCarthyism. He dominated the U.S. political climate in the early 1950s through his sensational but unproven charges of communist subversion in high government circles. In 1954 his Senate colleagues offi
Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin became the party’s most ardent anticommunist, taking the limelight while attempting to expose communists who he claimed were in the American government. In the interest of party unity, Eisenhower chose not to criticize McCarthy’s demagogic red-baiting and occasionally...
Joseph McCarthy: The misuse of political power Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-124) and index. A biography of the Wisconsin Senator whose questionable methods as a "Communist witch-hunter" b... D Cohen - 《Millbrook Press》 被引量: 0发表: 1996年 The new party of memory: Intell...
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Fulbright voted against funding for Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s anti-Communist investigations, an action that made him popular among liberals. He consistently opposed efforts to integrate schools and promote the civil rights of blacks, however, making it possible for him to be reelected from Ark...
Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and Joseph StalinBritish Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meeting at Potsdam, Germany, in July 1945 to discuss the postwar order in Europe.
1Martha McSally was appointed in December 2018 and took office the following month to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jon Kyl, who had been appointed in September 2018 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John McCain. Mark Kelly won a special election in November 2020 ...
Robert A. Taft was a Republican leader in the U.S. Senate for 14 years (1939–53) whose espousal of traditional conservatism won him the sobriquet “Mr. Republican”. His failure to receive the presidential nomination in 1948 and 1952 was indicative of t
Although a staunch anticommunist, she was nevertheless the first Republican senator to condemn Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s anticommunist witch-hunts, delivering a memorable “Declaration of Conscience” on the Senate floor in 1950. Her opinion that President John F. Kennedy should use nuclear ...