Robert Joseph Dole (July 22, 1923 – December 5, 2021)
Longtime GOP Senator and Presidential candidate Bob Dole died
early Sunday morning in his sleep.
The Dole family issued a statement later saying America was
grieving the loss of "one of its heroes.”
Condolences from both Republicans and Democrats alike commemorating his nearly four decades of service.have
been received.
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957)
The U.S. Senate voted 65 to 22 to condemn Senator Joseph R.
McCarthy for conduct unbecoming of a senator. The action
which was equivalent to a censure, related to McCarthy’s
controversial investigation of suspected communists in the
U.S. government, military and civilian society.
What is known as “McCarthyism” began on February 9, 1950,
when McCarthy, a relatively obscure Republican senator from
Wisconsin, announced during a speech in Wheeling, West
Virginia, that he had in his possession a list of 205 communists
who had infiltrated the U.S. State Department.
TIM MAGUIRE
ROSS SIMPSON
Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009)
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On his nationwide CBS-TV program, "See It Now," Edward R.
Murrow, on this day in 1954, used the Wisconsin Republican’s
own filmed and tape-recorded voice to portray him as a man
employing the half-truth as a "staple" and "repeatedly stepping
over the line between investigating and persecuting.
Lawyer Joseph Welch at the Army-McCarthy hearings.
