McCarthyism

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President Eisenhower, and the Army in the 1950’s. This conflict was not for any high moral standards but it was because they not like him interfering with their authority. The conflict between McCarthy and the Army began because McCarthy tried to arrange preferential treatment for one of his friends. The Army kept a record of the calls he made, and then later released them. This enraged McCarthy and he made wild accusations that the Army was filled with Communists. In May 1954, he got into a confrontation with the U.S Army and its secretary, Robert Stevens, and the famous McCarthy Army hearings began soon after.
With a television audience of twenty million Americans, the flamboyant senator randomly fired accusations of Communism toward certain Army officers. With the help of his aid, Roy Cohn, he was able to put together enough evidence to give him at least slight credibility. Over the span of thirty-six days, there were thirty-two witnesses, 71 half-days sessions, 187 ...

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