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THE FALL OF JOSEPH MCCARTHY

INTRO TO GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK • Read The reporter and See it Now handouts. Answer the following questions

PUBLIC OPINION ON MCCARTHY: 1954 Month Positive Negative January 50% 29% June 34% 45%

WHAT ELSE HAPPENED? • Eisenhower (New Republican President) vs. Mc. Carthy • Mc. Carthy great for republicans when Democrats were in charge. But when republicans took control of white house he continued to go after the fed government for harboring communists • Declining popularity

WHAT ELSE HAPPENED • Army Mc. Carthy Hearings • CRUCIAL MISTAKE - In early 1954, he charged that the United States Army was "soft" on communism. • Mc. Carthy was indignant because David Schine, one of his former investigators, had been drafted and the Army, much to Mc. Carthy's surprise, refused the special treatment he demanded for his former aide • FIASCO for Mc. Carthy • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=MO 2 iiov. Yq 70 • “Have you no sense of Decency? ”

SENATE RESOLUTION 301 Senate Committee investigating Mc. Carthy, and found that his claims were unsubstantiated Senate voted to censure Senator Joseph Mc. Carthy Senate voted to condemn Mc. Carthy for conduct "contrary to senatorial traditions. " By the time of his death from alcoholism in 1957, the influence of Senator Joseph Mc. Carthy in Congress was negligible.