July
20, 1950
Before
Trump there was McCarthy
The U.S. Senate voted 45-37 to accept a report by the Tydings
Committee; i.e. Subcommittee on the Investigation of Loyalty
of State Department Employees, chaired
by U.S. Senator Millard Tydings; the report denounced accusations
of Communist infiltration in the federal government, made by Senator U.S. Joseph
McCarthy, and all of those in favor were Democrats, all against were
Republicans. During the debate on the bill, Senator Tydings of Maryland said of
McCarthy's charges, "What a farce this has been. What a hoax, what fraud,
what deceit for a senator from Wisconsin to go to West Virginia and state there
are 205 card-carrying Communists in the State Department... and then overnight
to reduce the number to 57 and then come back to the Senate and make the same
speech, paragraph by paragraph, with that one paragraph changed.
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