Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican senator from Maine, made history in 1950 by giving a speech in front of Congress condemning the then-current investigation into “un-American activities,” in the form of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R – Wisconsin) and his bullying hunt for Communists. By hurling accusations, often without evidence, that American society, and government, had been infiltrated and… Source
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