Were here....leading the way to the past.....Moving forward to the Past....(tv) Joe McCarthy (Joseph Raymond McCarthy, November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was a two-term Republican U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. He dominated the anti-communist movement in the U.S., 1950-54, until his career was ruined by censure by the Senate. McCarthyism is the aggressive exposure of Communists influences in America and the people who protect them. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public figure to object to Communist infiltration of the United States government. A 1954 Gallup poll found that Joe McCarthy was the fourth on its list of most admired men. [1]He is now considered an American hero by many, though liberals still seek to tarnish his name. He was noted for claiming that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers, engaged in a conspiracy to undermine the United States, inside the federal government. He was proven correct by government documents and inquiry, including decrypted Venona files. McCarthy lost support in 1953 when he started attacking the U.S. Army, and suggesting that Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower was protecting subversives. Eisenhower signaled Republicans to stop his attacks on the Army. McCarthy had strong support among Catholics, such as Joe Kennedy; In 1954 the Senate censured him for attacking fellow Senators, this caused his influence to collapse abruptly. The term McCarthyism was coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthys aggressive attempts to ferret out suspects, occasionally in the absence of evidence.
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