

Letter, President Eisenhower to his brother, Milton Eisenhower, Octo(page 3 only) ĭaily Notes by C.D. Letter, President Eisenhower to friend, Swede Hazlett, J(pages 3 and 4 only) Letter, President Eisenhower to friend, Harry Bullis,

Conant as High Commissioner in Germany, Febru Letter, Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Eisenhower re James B. Marshall and was removed from the speech to avoid causing bad feelings in McCarthy's home state of Wisconsin.)

Senate on Decemand died May 2, 1957.ĭraft page, "Sixth Draft" of Eisenhower speech given on Octoin Milwaukee, Wisconsin on "Communism and Freedom" (The deleted paragraph refers to accusations made by McCarthy against General George C. Senator McCarthy was censured by the U.S. His subsequent exile from politics coincided with a conversion of his name into a modern English noun "McCarthyism," or adjective, "McCarthy tactics," when describing similar witch hunts in recent American history. From that moment Senator McCarthy became a tireless crusader against Communism in the early 1950s, a period that has been commonly referred to as the "Red Scare." As chairman of the Senate Permanent Investigation Subcommittee, Senator McCarthy conducted hearings on communist subversion in America and investigated alleged communist infiltration of the Armed Forces. McCarthy was a little-known junior senator from Wisconsin until February 1950 when he claimed to possess a list of 205 card-carrying Communists employed in the U.S.
