Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magazines--from the Peking Review to the National Review." He has researched all of the State Department's papers on Vietnam and reads the Congressional Record daily. He corresponds with Senators McGovern, Church, Morris, Gruening, Kennedy, Hatfield, Clark, and Hartke. And he is writing a Ph.D. thesis on "McCarthyism in the American Theatre" for the Department of Communications at the University of Southern California. When he finishes, he will teach a one-night-a-week seminar in International Relations...
...speech and in the streets is now firmly rooted throughout U.S. law. The draft cannot be used to conscript critics; a conscientious objector can rely on any God he chooses. The civil rights movement has taught Americans to accept nonviolent demonstrations in pursuit of constitutional rights. The rejection of McCarthyism, the civilizing of U.S. criminal justice-such milestones have moved America ever closer to its professed ideals. Few today would cheer the jingoism of World War I, when a pacifist was likely to find his house painted yellow. Most would cheer what Justice Holmes called "free trade in ideas-that...
...countries that allow their shipping to enter North Vietnamese ports, Taft said that the vote indicated "approval of trade with North Viet Nam, the very same nation that is daily killing American men." Gilligan called that statement "a rather indelicate way of resorting to the old tool of McCarthyism...
...last five years have shown that the House Un-American Activities Committee can survive and even prosper without the full thrust of nationwide McCarthyism. Congressmen are scared to oppose the committee because they know such a move would cost them ten-fold the number of votes they might gain. The courts, while increasingly unwilling to convict uncooperative HUAC witnesses of contempt, are even less willing to pass judgment on HUAC constitutionality -- for fear that in so doing they would spur a major confrontation between Congress and the judiciary over the separation-of-powers issue...
...admits that the Potsdam agreements encouraged Soviet imperialism. He blames Truman for an unconscionably rapid postwar demobilization, for a bankrupt China policy, and for all the domestic sins that critics have laid at Truman's door: government by crony, incompetence and corruption in Government, and "the disease of McCarthyism, which began-and got out of hand -while he was in the White House...