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 Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy was born on a farm in the town of Grand Chute, Wisconsin.
McCarthy's exact words in the speech are a matter of some dispute, as they were not reliably recorded at the time, the media presence being minimal.
McCarthy accused Johns Hopkins University professor Owen Lattimore of being the number one Soviet spy in the United States.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/joseph_mccarthy.html   (2329 words)

  
 CNN Cold War - Profile: Joseph Raymond McCarthy
McCarthy rarely provided any solid evidence to back up his claims, but in the political climate of the time his accusations and subsequent investigations nonetheless ended many a career and damaged a good number of lives.
After winning re-election in 1952, McCarthy became chairman of the Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, a position he used to launch many of his investigations of government officials and agencies.
However, by 1953 a seemingly out-of-control McCarthy was making many enemies.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/mccarthy   (427 words)

  
 McCarthyism
McCarthy, was made chairman of the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate, and this gave him the opportunity to investigate the possibility of communist subversion.
McCarthy made it clear to the witnesses that the only way of showing that they had abandoned their left-wing views was by naming other members of the party.
Joseph McCarthy considered a libel suit against Greenspun but decided against it when he was told by his lawyers that if the case went ahead he would have to take the witness stand and answer questions about his sexuality.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAmccarthyism.htm   (5174 words)

  
 The Destruction of Joe McCarthy
McCarthy is where he is today because he satisfies the deep national hunger for an affirmative man. In a Washington of vacillating, irresolute, pressure-group-cowed politicians, he stands out in sharp relief as a man sure of himself.
McCarthy's reputation was destroyed chiefly by the feud that two staffers on his Subcommittee on Investigations, Roy Cohn and G. David Schine, conducted against the United States Army, contrary to McCarthy's wishes.
McCarthy had instructed Adams on December 17, 1953, that, having learned the extent of the interference Cohn and Schine were causing for the commanding general of Fort Dix, he wished the Army to discontinue all special treatment for Schine.
www.natvan.com /national-vanguard/114/mccarthy.html   (5573 words)

  
 Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy thought this was a great idea and at Wheeling on 9th February, 1950, he made a speech where he attacked Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State, as "a pompous diplomat in striped pants".
McCarthy, as chairman of the Government Committee on Operations of the Senate, was in an ideal position to exploit this situation.
McCarthy considered a libel suit against Greenspun but decided against it when he was told by his lawyers that if the case went ahead he would have to take the witness stand and answer questions about his sexuality.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAmccarthy.htm   (3902 words)

  
 Joe McCarthy: Dangerous Buffoon
The day after McCarthy's speech in West Virginia, Willard Edwards, the author of the articles, urgently asked to talk with Walter Trohan, the Washington bureau chief, in Edward's office at the Albee Building at 15th and G Streets NW.
McCarthy and Hoover had been friends since 1947, when McCarthy met with the director to convey his respects.
McCarthyism harmed the counterintelligence effort against the Soviet threat because of the revulsion it caused.
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 McCarthy, Joseph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, Joe McCarthy graduated from Marquette in 1935 and was admitted to the bar later that year.
In a 1950 speech, McCarthy entered the public spotlight by claiming that communists had "infested" the State Department, dramatically waving a sheet of paper which purportedly contained the traitors' names.
Unfazed, McCarthy used his position to wage a relentless anti-communist crusade, denouncing numerous public figures and holding a series of highly confrontational hearings.
us.history.wisc.edu /hist102/bios/31.html   (222 words)

  
 Joe McCarthy Was Right [Free Republic]
McCarthy, in fact, was only able to scratch the surface regarding this monstrous conspiracy, the reverberations of which continue to threaten the very foundations of our civilization to this day.
McCarthy delivered a speech, February 9, 1950; to the Republican Women's Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, where he stated that there were at least 57 known Communists in the U.S. State Department and that the State Department knew that they were there.
The left dominated media fails to mention that Joe McCarthy was wildly popular in his day and was thought to be one of the few public figures that spoke plainly and truthfully about the communist conspiracy.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b852f1d4939.htm   (1298 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: The Trouble with “Treason” by David Horowitz
It is the Left that wants McCarthy to be the center of (and in effect to define) the postwar era so that it can use his recklessness to discredit the anti-Communist cause.
This is why McCarthy did not unearth any Communists in government or out (all they had all been previously identified by the FBI), and why FBI officials engaged in counter-intelligence work despised McCarthy for damaging their efforts.
In fact, liberals like Joe Conason were eager abettors of her lie that a “vast right-wing conspiracy” invented her husband’s affair with Monica Lewinsky in order to destroy his liberal good works.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8793   (3248 words)

  
 The Kennedys and McCarthyism
McCarthy was invited to the wedding reception for Eunice and Sargent Shriver, and even presented Eunice with a silver cigarette case inscribed "To Eunice and Bob from one who lost."
McCarthy already had an intense dislike of Lodge, and had such a good rapport with the Kennedys that the decision was easy for him.
JFK may have regretted the McCarthy connection in later years, but the assertion of the JFK-As-Progressive advocates that he was never close to, nor sympathetic to McCarthy during the critical years prior to 1954 is totally contradicted by JFK's own words and deeds.
mcadams.posc.mu.edu /progjfk2.htm   (1134 words)

  
 CENSURE OF SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY (1954)
Then in February 1950, an undistinguished, first-term Republican senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, burst into national prominence when, in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, he held up a piece of paper that he claimed was a list of 205 known communists currently working in the State Department.
McCarthy never produced documentation for a single one of his charges, but for the next four years he exploited an issue that he realized had touched a nerve in the American public.
McCarthy, is contrary to senatorial traditions and is hereby condemned.
usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/facts/democrac/60.htm   (400 words)

  
 Joe McCarthy Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Joe McCarthy was born on Sunday, December 25, 1881, in Syracuse, New York.
McCarthy was 24 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 27, 1905, with the New York Highlanders, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
Joe McCarthy's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Joe McCarthy baseball statistics page.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=mccarjo02   (291 words)

  
 Releasing Joe McCarthy | Donald Ritchie | August 2003 OAH Newsletter
Convinced that subversion and espionage were rampant in the federal government, Senator McCarthy ascribed policies with which he disagreed to either stupidity or sabotage.
Her case contrasts with that of another African American woman, Doris Walters Powell, whom McCarthy erroneously pegged as a communist, drove from her government job, and crowed about to the press, but never brought to a public hearing.
McCarthy's defenders cite the VENONA intercepts as evidence that the senator "was n to something." The problem with this defense is that very few of those in VENONA came under McCarthy's scrutiny.
www.oah.org /pubs/nl/2003aug/mccarthy.html   (1497 words)

  
 BuzzFlash > P.M. Carpenter > Joe McCarthy's Revenge
Encapsulated by McCarthy in the course of an hour was this element of the party’s evolving stock advocacy which Barry Goldwater, the New Right, Ronald Reagan and the Reagan revolutionists and now George W. Bush would further exploit.
McCarthy’s Wheeling speech is most remembered as a deranged political rant – a wholly unfounded, opportunistic diatribe against the Truman administration’s ghastly tolerance of in-house communists.
McCarthy, of course, buried himself by committing that most unpardonable of American political sins: He dissed the U.S. military.
www.buzzflash.com /carpenter/04/11/pmc04020.html   (567 words)

  
 Joe McCarthy Was Right
McCarthy's detractors, Communists, and Soviet sympathizers never anticipated two things: One, the Venona intercepts and their subsequent release; Two, the collapse of Communism and the opening of Soviet files.
Lattimore had been Director of the School Of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, advisor to FDR on China in 1941, advisor at State in 1946-1947, preached that Mao's Communists were "agrarian reformers", in 1948 encouraged George Marshall to stop aid to Chiang Kai-Shek and his Nationalists, and in 1949 urged U.S. withdrawal from Korea.
What McCarthy really did was breach the gentlemen's agreement and game of using Communists prior to and during the war while they were slowly dispatched after the war.
www.spongobongo.com /em/em9820.htm   (1511 words)

  
 Joseph Raymond McCarthy
When the Republicans assumed control of Congress in 1953, McCarthy, who had been reelected in 1952, became chairman of the Senate permanent investigations subcommittee (Government Operations Committee), a post in which he wielded great power; he used his position to exploit the public's fear of Communism.
However, in December the Senate, acting on a motion of censure against him, voted to “condemn” McCarthy for contempt of a Senate elections subcommittee that had investigated his conduct and financial affairs in 1952, for abuse of certain senators, and for insults to the Senate itself during the censure proceedings.
McCarthy's indiscriminate attacks gave rise to the term “McCarthyism,” which denotes similar assaults characterized by sensationalist tactics and unsubstantiated accusations.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0830834.html   (539 words)

  
 Joe McCarthy
Through the first part of the decade, McCarthy was all of these things, and then he found the Senate and the generals and commanders rising up against him, and he collapsed.
At the start of 1950, McCarthy was an empty vessel to the general public outside Wisconsin.
"McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled," he told a Wisconsin audience in 1952, and, sure enough, there was the eponym, with his hairy arms bare to the biceps.
www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/mccarthy-bio.html   (991 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Redhunter : A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The depiction of McCarthys upbringing on a Wisconsin chicken farm is affecting, as are the scenes describing Bontecous moral dilemmas and McCarthys losing battle with the bottle.
McCarthy's crimes are portrayed not so much as crimes of malice but instead as crimes of stupidity and Buckley is very deft in showing how 1950s liberals cannily exploited that stupidity to obscure the truth about communism and further their own goals.
The McCarthy Buckley describes is ambitious, blind to some aspects of human nature, and prone to excess, but basically good, and, as we now know, right in his basic thesis: Communists had systematically penetrated American institutions, with subvursive intent.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316115894?v=glance   (2675 words)

  
 Autographed Baseballs -- Joe McCarthy with Mickey Doolan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In his first season McCarthy improved the Cubs by fourteen games, and in 1927 had the club in first place in August before finishing fourth.
In late-season 1930, however, McCarthy resigned, opening the way for a job with the Yankees (where he would remain sixteen years and earn his greatest fame).
McCarthy's outstanding career record -- twenty-four +.500 finishes in twenty-four seasons, and the highest winning percentage in major league history -- has often been dismissed as a near-inevitable consequence of his teams' superior talent.
www.sports.nd.edu /exhibits/bbexhibit/balls/mccarthy/mcc.html   (253 words)

  
 Sen. Joe McCarthy and Camp Evans
In spite of McCarthy’s considerable digging for espionage in the Army Signal Corps and Camp Evans in 1953 and 1954, not one individual was ever-prosecuted (Reeves 1982 Pg.
Emerging evidence indicates McCarthy may have been closer to the truth of Communists in the military than was once believed (Raines 1998 Pg.
McCarthy's probe had a long-lasting impact on Wall Twp.'s Camp Evans.
www.infoage.org /mccarthy.html   (1767 words)

  
 Joseph McCarthy: Biography
While still on active duty in 1944, McCarthy challenged incumbent Alexander Wiley for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate, but was soundly defeated.  In April, 1945, having resigned his military commission, McCarthy was re-elected without opposition to the circuit court.  He immediately began planning for the 1946 Senate campaign.
Throughout the early 1950s, McCarthy continued to make accusations of communist infiltration of the U. government, though he failed to provide evidence.
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was buried on a bluff overlooking the Fox River in Appleton’s St. Mary’s cemetery.
www.apl.org /history/mccarthy/biography.html   (259 words)

  
 NPR : Closed-Door McCarthy Transcripts Released
What followed were two years of hearings, subpoenas and political pressure as McCarthy attempted to ferret out the Communists he was convinced were entrenched in all branches of government and among America's academic and artistic elites.
After McCarthy hinted at a huge Communist conspiracy in the U.S Army, and his confrontational investigatory style wore thin on the American public, McCarthy was censured by the Senate for "conduct unbecoming of a senator." The McCarthy era of hunting down Communists was over.
The McCarthy subcommittee conducted numerous public hearings -- many of which were televised -- but it did the largest share of its work behind closed doors.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1252460   (420 words)

  
 AIM Report: 2003 Report # 13 - Joe McCarthy Was Right
McCarthy was quite specific in his charges, having cited 59 suspected communists in the State Department.
McCarthy’s charge against Mary Jane Keeney, a Soviet agent who served as a State Department employee at the U.N., was proven correct.
McCarthy was right about Annie Lee Moss, an army code clerk who was proven to be a member of the Communist Party.
www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/2003/13.html   (3187 words)

  
 Media Monitor - Joe McCarthy Vindicated - February 29, 2000
He said McCarthy, a Republican, struck a chord by saying that the Democratic administrations of the time were failing to safeguard the national security of the United States.
Herman said McCarthy overreached in his criticisms of General George Marshall, who, as Secretary of State, was accused of furthering the aims of the communists in the Soviet Union and China.
Herman said that while McCarthy can be criticized for his accusations against those who facilitated the communist takeover of China, scholars would be well-advised not to focus on McCarthy’s charges but the motives of those he named.
www.aim.org /media_monitor/A3142_0_2_0_C   (662 words)

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