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Joseph McCarthy “Enemies from Within” Speech Delivered in Wheeling, West Virginia (1950) 1 Tonight as we celebrate the 141st birthday of one of the great men in American history, I would like to be able to talk about what a glorious day today is in the history of the world. As we celebrate the
McCarthy, in a speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, mounted an attack on Truman’s foreign policy agenda by charging that the State Department and its Secretary, Dean Acheson, harbored “traitorous” Communists. There is some dispute about the number of Communists McCarthy claimed to have known about.
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In February 1950, Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy delivered his notorious ‘enemies within’ speech in Wheeling, West Virginia. In this speech he alleged communist infiltration of the State Department:
16. Dez. 2014 · Senator McCarthy delivered the speech at a Lincoln Day dinner hosted by the Ohio County Republican Women's Club on February 9, 1950, at the McClure Hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia. In his...
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In the Wheeling speech, among the most significant in American political history, McCarthy's recklessness finally merged with his search for a propelling issue. He explained that homegrown traitors were causing America to lose the cold war.
Senator Joseph McCarthy's Enemies from Within speech became the driving force behind the Red Scare. Get access to this text and reading analysis resources.
9. Feb. 2011 · February 9, 2011 8:01 am (EST) Sixty-one years ago tonight Sen. Joseph McCarthy gave the speech to the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia that ushered in the ugly era of...
