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To: rrufff who wrote (5892)	2/23/2004 3:42:46 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 6945

Remember Sen J. McCarthy, the "Anti-Communist Templar" of the 1950s? McCarthy's "downfall" Most people who deplored the tactics of McCarthy were afraid to speak against him. If you say an accused witch isn't a witch, that means you get accused of being a witch. If you say an accused Communist isn't a Communist, that means you get accused of being a Communist. But that situation changed in 1954. In 1954 McCarthy accused U.S. Army officials of knowingly harboring Communists in their ranks. In threatening the Army, others viewed him as having stepped over the line. Soon afterward McCarthy himself was the one who was under investigation, and it was he who was being required to testify before Congress -- the so-called Army - McCarthy hearings. On the cover of Arthur Herman's book [...] is a photo of Joe McCarthy making a presentation at the Army - McCarthy hearings. He points to a map of the U.S. with a pointer, to indicate the locations of alleged Communist groups at U.S. Army bases. The Senate voted 67 to 22 to censure McCarthy, the fourth time in U.S. history that the Senate had censured a Senator. Afterward, he was sometimes spoken of as "the disgraced Senator McCarthy". He died soon after the censure, at the age of 48, of hepatitis and liver disease related to alcoholism. cbird.8m.com