Outcome:
-9 million people investigated
-9500 civil servants fired
-15000 civil servants resigned
-600 teachers lost jobs
From The Washington Post March29, 1950
Conservative Republican senators, Kenneth S. Wherry, Robert A. Taft, and Styles Bridges and Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson push a reluctant GOP elephant to mount the unsavory platform. This was the first use of the word "McCarthyism."
May 7, 1954 re: The Army-McCarthy Hearings
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