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2nd December 1954: US Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:49
Publish Date: 2017-12-01 21:05:41
Description: United States Senator Joseph McCarthy was censured for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonour and disrepute.” Joseph McCarthy was elected to the Senate for the state of Wisconsin in 1946. He was thrust into the public eye in February 1950 after a speech to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia in which he claimed that 205 communists had infiltrated the U.S. State Department. Following his re-election in 1952, McCarthy became chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Government Operations and of its permanent subcommittee on investigations. McCarthy used his position to launch a series of high profile ...
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