History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1827 short lesson, about 20 seconds
McCarthy at Wheeling
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The idea
On February ninth, nineteen fifty, Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin claimed in a speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, to hold a list of two hundred five Communists in the State Department.
In practice
A senator waving a sheet of paper, the Yawp records, as he spoke.
Where people slip
Digital History records his later charge that the Truman administration was riddled with subversion.
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