so senator joseph mccarthy had given a speech claiming there were 205 known communist in the department of state and a senate investigation found those allegations were false. mccarthy still have a lot of public supporting continued his investigation. one of the objects i want to callts out here is this item rit here. this is the seat delivered by one of mccarthy's fellow senators. this is from senator margaret chase smith of maine and smith was one of the only republicans, one of the first republicans to speak up about mccarthy's investigation. she did so because she was concerned about the way that mccarthy had been using abusive tactics and unsubstantiated allegations into the investigation of prospective communist and the allegations that mccarthy could end up running lights and ruining careers. >> senator. margaret chase smith decided to speak up about mccarthy's tactics and she gave a speech on the floor of the senate. in the speech she decried mccarthy's tactics and she condemns the climate of quote fear, and and smear" that mccarthy had created. there wasll a few republicans tt

said senator joseph mccarthy had given a speech claiming there were 205 known communists and the dentstate. an senate investigation found they were false. mccarthy handled the investigation.t when the objects i went to call out is this item right here her. it is a speech delivered by one of mccarthy's fellow senators. this is from senator margaret chase smith of maine. one of the only republicans the first republicans to speak up about mccarthy's investigation. she did so she was concerned about the weight mccarthy had been using abusive tactics. unsubstantiated allegations inf investigation of suspected communists. the allegations mccarthy was making could often end up in ruined lives and ruin careers. quick senator i never gave your cruelty or your recklessness. >> speak up she gave this speech on the floor of the senate. in this speech she cried tactics condemn the climate of quote fear, ignorance, bigotry in smearca unquote. that c mccarthy had created. a few of fellow republicans that joined her condemnation of mccarthy at that time. mccarthy's investigation continued. the mccart

so senator joseph mccarthy had given a speech claiming that there were 205 known communists in the department of state. and although a later senat investigation found that those legaons were false, mccarthy still had a lot of public support, and he continued his investigations. one of the objects that i want to call out here is this item right here. this is this is a speech that was delivered by one of mccarthy's fellow senators. this is from senator margaret chase smith of maine. and smith was one of the only republicans, one of the first republicans to speak up mccarthy's investigations. and she did so because she was concerned about the way that mccarthy had been using abuse of tactics and unsubstantiated allegations. his investigations of suspected communists and the allegations that mccarthy was making could often end up in ruined lives and ruined careers. senator, i think i never really gave your probing or your recklessness. so margaret chase smith decided to speak up about about mccarthy's tactics. and she gave this speech on the floor of the senate. in the speech, she. she decried mc

you also write about your father having to testify before joseph mccarthy's house un-american activitiesommittee. you write in the book, my father was an imgrant that spoke with a heavy accent that stayed with him the rest of his life. the question was raised whether he was truly american, if he saw the country the way americans did. at one point my mother picked up the phone in their new york city apartment to have an anonymous caller ask if her husband was a communist. the hearing went ultimately well. what did you learn in that moment and are there flashbacks to that moment in time? >> certainly in the attempt in our politics of some to win elections or to governor by tweeting some segment of the population as, quote, the other, they're not like us, they're different. in my father's case, there wasn't any more dedicated patriot that i knew. he came to the united states believing that country had saved him and his family, although some of his family members did not survive the second world war, and the u.s. represented for him decency in his politics. rough and tumble. yes, democratic

needle to help former state assemblyman william proxmire during his special election to replace joseph mccarthy's vacated seat following his death. so part of the problem was that proxmire had just gotten divorced and that did not sit very well with the catholic voters in milwaukee, green bay. so, of course, you bring in the catholic senator or congressman to help him out, which they did. also there that day was a 32 year old proxmire aide named gerry bruno. i love gerry bruno. this guy was an eighth grade dropout. he was a forklift driver out of kenosha. he ended up playing a lot of international trips. and he was president. he planned the dallas trip and some, to some extent, and he's there that day, meeting his future boss for the first time. and under than ideal circumstances. william proxmire had a problem. his first marriage to l.s. rockefeller had recently ended in divorce, and he'd married ellen sowell. unfortunately, proxmire was divorced weakened. his support in the catholic heavy districts from green bay and milwaukee. it was support he couldn't to lose if he wanted to beat his special

having to testify before joseph mccarthy's house on account.y father was an immigrant who spoke with a heavy accent that stayed with him for the rest of his life. a question had been raised about whether he was truly american, whether he saw the truth of his adopted country the way real americans did. at one point, my mother picked up the phone to hear an anonymous caller asked whether her husband was a communist. and your father agreed to testify. the hearing went well. what did you ultimately learn from that, and other flashbacks in this moment to that period of time? >> certainly in the attempt in our politics of some to win elections or to govern by tweeting some segment of the population as, quote, the other. they are not like us. in my father's case, there wasn't any more dedicated patriot i knew. he came to the united states believing the country had saved him and his family. some of his family did not survive the second world war. and decency and is politics -- rough-and-tumble, for sure. at the same time, some fundamental respect for i

joseph mccarthy. this is often called the mccarthy era. mccarthy because he was the most reckless proponent of these, he was pretty late though to the to the party, to the conspiracy theory he was elected to senate, to the senate, from. in 1946 and for first four years that he was in the senate. he did not make anti-communism big issue. but then in 1950, right after hiss was convicted and realized that this was a that a lot of americans held, that there were communists in the government in 1950. he decided to become the leader of the people charged that there was communism in the. so he burst into the public eye in february of 1950 when he went to west virginia to give a speech. and at the speech he gave this people a piece of paper over his head and said, i have here in my a list of 205 a list of names were made known to the secretary of state as being members of the communist party and who nevertheless are still in shaping policy in the state department and so how was different? how is this an escalation portion from what elizabeth bentl

and against senator joseph mccarthy.n jackie kennedy was involved in terms of her interest to the art. drafter tv tour everything in the white house should be the best. but in fact was behind the creation of what eventually became the national endowment of the arts and humanities but she took a great interest and the troubling and growing conflict intn vietnam. today we have four individuals who bring with them with special expertise and love and appreciation for the real pat nixon.ti on the contributions that she made. a i will add that at the end of this panel, will be showing a spectacular film about cap next it also did as first lady. so please stick around for that. i like to introduce immediately to my right sarah is an historian of the white house historical association. maureen and none is a member of the richard nixon foundation board of directors and a longtime friend of the nixon family. her mother was the best friend for many, many decades. it's extremely close. mary bratton is the dean of college of liberal

. >>> coming up for us, a book by far right extremist that actually celebrates joseph mccarthy and dictatorsorld gets praise from the republican nominee for vice president. we will bring you that reporting next. president. we will bring you that reporting next so i smell great all day, all hike, and all night. secret whole body deodorant. >>> it's like, yeah, okay, this person believes crazy things but i bet if you're being honest with yourself every single person in this room believes at least something that's a little crazy, right? the most important truths often come from people who are crazy 60% of the time but they're right 40% of the time. believe in crazy things is not the mark of whether somebody should be rejected. >>> if you ever wonder why he's the most unpopular vice presidential pick in history think about the things he's explaining. he's defending the right to believe crazy things. that was gop vice presidential nominee j.d. vance who is to be generous about it tolerant of conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists. he has even admitted to being plugged into a lot of weird ri

you know, previously about mccarthy and and the way that somebody like joseph welch became very famous for standing up to joe mccarthy in a public hearing. so it occurs. but not too often. in the summer of 1987, seven weeks of hearings, 500 witnesses, 1 million documents in a 690 page report. who are some of the significant others who testified? mr. townsend. well, you had a whole range of of operatives, people involved with this scandal, people like robert mcfarland, who had been the national security adviser, who was deeply involved in these orchestrated efforts to channel well, to go to the iranians to try to secure the release of hostages in exchange for the sale of these weapons systems. and then the money being channeled and used to support the contras. so mcfarland was a very, very important part of the of the the proceeding. fine. paul who was the assistant to oliver north who helped him destroy documents? she was, you know, a young woman who was kind of got lot of attention because she was she was attractive and the whole thing sort of played to the media's feeding frenzy on t