Word: mccarthyism
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...Nuremberg trial. He was chair of the next 12 trials, and his clarity and eloquence (he called Nazi Germany "an infernal combination of a lunatic asylum and a charnel house") led to 142 convictions. Later, as a lawyer and a professor, he scrutinized public officials, and spoke out against McCarthyism and the Vietnam...
Although no one could have known that this initiative would foreshadow McCarthyism, the Barnes Bill was unpopular among students, Faculty and administrators alike...
...that Ho Chi Minh was not just another Soviet stooge but a Vietnamese nationalist suspicious of his huge Chinese neighbor--an "Asian Tito." Had the pro-Ho factions in the CIA and State Department persuaded Eisenhower to compel South Vietnam to hold a reunification referendum in 1956--despite rampant McCarthyism in the U.S.--Ho would surely have won. While Ike would have taken some political heat, a newly reunited Vietnam backed by American power would have quickly asserted its independence from Beijing. With no war to fight in Southeast Asia, Lyndon Johnson would have concentrated his money and effort...
...past, when something truly threatened our freedom (McCarthyism, fascism) or our conception of ourselves as Americans (widespread poverty, Watergate), activists were too busy fighting their actual opponents to attack those who simply didn't care...
Starr is bringing back a new form of McCarthyism with questions like "Are you now having or have you ever had sex with the President?" LORNE SIDENBERG Toronto...