Margaret Chase Smith’s Declaration of Conscience

It Was Said

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🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith breaks with partisan orthodoxy to take a stand against the demagoguery of Joseph McCarthy. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.5	The madness had begun in the colonnade room of the McClure Hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia
0:49.0	on Lincoln's birthday, 1950.
0:52.6	The guest speaker was Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.
0:56.5	He announced,
0:57.5	While I cannot take the time to name all of the men in the State Department who have been
1:01.5	named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my
1:06.6	hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the
1:12.0	Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy in the
1:17.6	State Department.
1:22.2	The number of McCarthy's alleged communists was a moving target, his charges constantly
1:27.0	shifting.
1:28.3	But the details did not matter.
1:31.0	McCarthy quickly rose to power and to prominence on a pernicious platform of hyperbole and imprecision.
1:38.3	His own lawyer, Roy Cohn, could not discern any great ideological conviction in the junior
1:43.6	Senator from Wisconsin.
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