68 years ago today, December 2nd, 1954, Senate Resolution 301, the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy

was entered into the record. The transcript reads, resolved that the senator from Wisconsin,

Mr. McCarthy, failed to cooperate with the subcommittee on privileges

and elections of the Senate committee on rules and administration in clearing up matters

referred to that subcommittee, which concerned his conduct as a senator and affected the honor

of the Senate and instead repeatedly abused the subcommittee and its members who were trying to carry out

assigned duties, thereby obstructing the constitutional processes of the Senate and that this

conduct of the senator from Wisconsin, Mr. McCarthy, is contrary to senatorial traditions

and is hereby condemned.

Section 2 reads, the senator from Wisconsin, Mr. McCarthy, in writing to the chairman of the

Select Committee to study censure charges, Mr. Watkins, after the Select Committee had issued

its report and before the report was presented to the Senate, charging three members of the

Select Committee with deliberate deception and fraud for failure to disqualify them, the report was presented to the Senate charging three members of the select committee with

deliberate deception and fraud for failure to disqualify themselves in stating to the press

on November 4, 1954, that the special Senate session that was to begin November 8, 1954,

was a lynch party, quote unquote. in repeatedly describing this special Senate session as a

lynch B in a nationwide television and radio show on November 7, 1954, in stating to the public

press on November 13, 1954, that the chairman of the select committee, Mr. Watkins, was guilty of, quote, the most unusual,

most cowardly things I've ever heard of. And stating further, quote, I expected he would be

afraid to answer the questions, but didn't think he'd be stupid enough to make a public statement.

And in characterizing the said committee as the unwitting handmaiden, involuntary agent,

and attorneys, in fact, of the Communist Party and in changing, in charging, that said

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