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WAR HERO HAS DIED AT 100 YEARS OLD

Hibernia: News from Ireland | Irish America

(FOX NEWS) – Maureen (Flavin) Sweeney, a lighthouse worker
in Ireland
whose critical weather reports helped ensure the
success of the epic D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War
II, died on Sunday at 100 years old, according to multiple
reports on Monday in Irish media.

Her death was received with reverence on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Michigan (below) told Fox News Digital. 
"Maureen Sweeney is a hero and saved countless lives of
Allies."

contact congress Jack Bergman of Michigan

Normandy Invasion -- D-Day Landings on Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944

A meteorologista de 98 anos cuja previsão do tempo mudou o curso da Segunda Guerra | Hypeness ...
A young Maureen and the Blacksod Bay Lighthouse.

Maureen Sweeney of Ireland

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FIRST CABINET MEMBER TO COMMIT CRIME

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Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861 – November 30, 1944)

On this day in 1929, during the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert B.
Fall, who served as secretary of the interior in President Warren
G. Harding’s cabinet, was found guilty of accepting a bribe while
in office. Fall, a U.S.
senator from New Mexico, was the first
individual to be convicted of a crime committed while a
presidential cabinet member.

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Warren Gamaliel Harding
(November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923)

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY IN 1969

AP Was There: Sen. Kennedy’s fateful crash on Chappaquiddick – Boston Herald

Shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator
Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts drove an Oldsmobile
off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped
the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo
Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car
accident for 10 hours.

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Ted Kennedy Chappaquiddick crash mystery | Daily Telegraph

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Time Magazine January 10, 1969 Senator Edward Kennedy
January 10, 1969

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MAN BEHIND “THE RED SCARE” DIED IN 1957

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Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) succumbed to illness exacerbated by alcoholism and passed away at age 48.

McCarthy had been a key figure in the anticommunist hysteria
popularly known as the “Red Scare” that engulfed the United
States in the years following
World War II.

McCarthy was born in a small town in Wisconsin in 1908. In
1942, he joined the Marines and served in the Pacific during
World War II. He returned home in 1944 and decided to start
a career in politics.

Joseph McCarthy ignites the "Red Scare" in America | Red scare, Ap us history, Nellie bly

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SENATOR WAS ‘’A FALL GUY’’ FOR A SCANDAL

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Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861 – November 30, 1944)

During the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s, Albert B. Fall,
who served as secretary of the interior in President
Warren G.
Harding
’s cabinet, was found guilty of accepting a bribe while
in office.

Fall was the first individual to be convicted of a crime committed
while a presidential cabinet member.



Senate committee investigating the Teapot Dome oil leases, 1924.

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Warren Gamaliel Harding
(November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923)

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