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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 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.
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Nov 13, 2009 · During a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican- Wisconsin) claims that he has a list with the names of over 200 members of the Department of State that are “...
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In February 1950, Joseph McCarthy delivered his notorious 'enemies within' speech in West Virginia, alleging communist infiltration of the State Department.
Sep 23, 2016 · On February 9, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy stepped into the spotlight of national attention with a speech given at Wheeling, West Virginia. McCarthy was nearing the end of his first term as senator and needed a big issue to energize his run for a second term.
On Feb 9, 1950, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy delivered a speech at the McLure Hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia during which he claimed to hold a list of known communists (“enemies from within”) in the U.S. State Department.
