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Vor 3 Tagen · Eugene McCarthy, Robert F. Kennedy and Humphrey emerged as the three major candidates in the Democratic primaries until Kennedy was assassinated. His death after midnight on June 6, 1968, continued a streak of high-profile assassinations in the 1960s .
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Vor 5 Tagen · It was the longest-lasting and most widespread episode of political repression in American history. Designed to eliminate the influence of the Communist Party (CP) from American life, McCarthyism ...
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Vor 5 Tagen · After Sen. Eugene McCarthy, a leading critic of the war, ran strongly against him in the New Hampshire primary, Johnson announced that he would not seek or accept renomination. He also curtailed bombing operations, opened peace talks with the North Vietnamese, and on November 1 ended the bombing of North Vietnam.
Vor 3 Tagen · In Senator Joe McCarthy’s America of anti-Communist hysteria, he sailed close to the wind, writing for example a song about Werner von Braun, Hitler’s rocket scientist, who after the war became America’s rocket scientist: “A man whose allegiance / Is ruled by expedience / Call him a Nazi, he won’t even frown / ‘Nazi ...
Vor 11 Stunden · About the only on-campus statement I ever made however, was wearing a (Eugene) McCarthy pin on my graduation robe. Driving back from Michigan, we heard that (allegedly anti-war) presidential ...
Vor 2 Tagen · George H. W. Bush. Republican. Elected President. Bill Clinton. Democratic. The 1992 United States presidential election was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1992. Democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeated incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush and independent businessman Ross Perot ...
Vor 5 Tagen · McCarthyism. The term McCarthyism has, as Ellen Schrecker writes, a definition as controversial as McCarthy himself. It could refer specifically to the senator's pattern of reckless, unsubstantiated accusations of communist subversion and declarations of guilt by association for individual political gain. Or it could be used more generally to ...
