so senator joseph mccarthy had given a speech claiming that there were 205 known communists in the department of state. and although a later senate investigation found that those allegations 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 decri

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 legations 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

thing about about welch, because it does bear on sort of what ultimately happened to senator mccarthy joseph welch. you know, in a hearing in 1954, kind of in the middle of these and was in june of 54, was engaging in a in a in a colloquy basically with senator mccarthy, who was trying to again, so doubt about the people in the u.s. army and about the position the army was taking by by suggesting that one of the attorneys, a young attorney, had had associations with communism. that attorney was taken off the investigation, which was obviously damaging his career. and joseph welch stood up for that, that young, young attorney, and said, you know, senator mccarthy, you know, i've seen you in action and, you know, you just have have have basically left no decency. have you no decency, sir? but to drag a young attorney who was not implicated any of this through the mud publicly and a like the murrow, you know, the commentary very edward r murrow provided this moment on live television where a very credible, more experienced lawyer stood up to joe mccarthy. if sending really an innocent person, i

. >> he did not coin that phrase, in fact, that phrase was coined by joseph mccarthy.all know how that turned out. there is also a term very similar, demoralized from within, these lines that were used in adolf hitler's memoir. these are not new ideologies or belief. trump is just using them, because for whatever reason, he thinks that this is a good, political move to continue to sure up his base. whether you like adam schiff or not, whether you like nancy pelosi or not, whether you like the bidens, or kamala harris, whether you like the clintons, all irrelevant. right? the purpose of politicians is to debate, not to incarcerate. that is what trump intends to do . he intends to after all of his political critics, all of his political enemies, and he is warning the american people, why there is a large group, and there is a large group of americans that refuse to listen to what he is saying, and said instead, they are saying washing his words, for whatever reason, they are saying washing them so that they are not as unhinged as they actually are. >> that is why we call

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and so joseph mccarthy and will also take on the refusal of several prominent media outlets in the us to induce i the candidates in this year's election. and do you think the journalists even should be taking so i thought they supposed to be impartial. busy i think it's probably better for journalists to just report and let the people decide they should be as objective and critical as possible of both, you know, all sides and elections. it's not really their job to tell people who to vote for and people won't listen to them. they just want to get good information from the media. they can make up their own mind. they're smart enough. a science that's making so as it's good to hear your thoughts on the situation, we've been so concerned because morales wanted to get a set of clothes at auction magazine. thank you to thank you and thank you for joining us there. and all the international does get to keep an eye on our website console. the latest updates on the that was more than 30 minutes. see it on the the, the, [000:00:00;00] the path to the establishment of the bosses where his email

there is a ghost in the room and the ghost name is joseph mccarthy.am just wondering since we are all historians here whether the three who want to talk a little bit for a couple of minutes aboutt why everyone in this room should understand what happened 70 years ago. >> i mention the cold war. >> we all know mccarthy? were generated by the movement called mccarthyism. and essentially these investigations and prosecutions were used in practice to target and eliminate left-leaning professors. so under the name of looking for subversives, people on the left generally were subjected to these investigations and laws in the case that i mentioned as the first time that the supreme court identified academic freedom as a distinctive first amendment rights, this was an investigation by the state of new hampshirewa. not a communist he said he was not a communist. he said he was not a subversive. said he did not know of any subversives. legitimate issues of inquiry he said. but he felt the investigation was targeted in new hampshire left-leaning professors of th

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and the ghost name is joseph mccarthy. and just wondering whether since we're all historians here, whether any of the three of you want to talk a little bit, at least for a couple minutes, about why we should why everybody in this room should understand what happened 70 years ago. like i mentioned, the cold war. you did. you got close. you got. so do you know of joseph? he says everyone. no. and a lot of these investigations of professors that i briefly mentioned were generated by the movement people call mccarthyism. and essentially these investigations and prosecutions were used in practice to target and eliminate kind of left leaning professors. so under the name of looking for subversives. people on the left generally were subjected to these investigations and laws and the sweep case that i mentioned as the first time that the supreme court identified academic freedom as a distinctive first amendment right. this was an investigation. it was by the state of new hampshire, but it was mccarthy like sweezy was not a commun

welch was the embarrassed joseph mccarthy in the 50s. and it really started mccarthy's descent and and he said to mccarthy at long last, sir, have you no decency? he wouldn't say it quite that way, but does he challenge vance on what they've inflicted on this town in ohio? well, one thing we've heard from early on particularly was the whole weird idea. let's play some of that dude. >> these guys are just weird. these guys are creepy and yes, just weird as hell. these ideas that they're putting out there they are weird as hell. it's an observation, and i didn't come up with it this is a tool. i'm a teacher and you're trying to get things in. this is the emperor's wearing no clothes obviously, the danger of him using it tonight is something that j.d. >> vance can obviously prepare for. >> well, right. and i think it's something that actually is super effective on the campaign stump. and it works at, you know, kind of a rally environment. it debates a very different format. i think you'd actually be much better off to litigate the substance

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the investigation led to the censure of senator joseph mccarthy. watch tonight at 10:00 p.m.an now, or online at c-span.org. >> joining us now on washington journal is the president of the american institute for boys and men and author of the 2022 book "of boys and men: why the modern mail is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it." in what way is the modern male struggling? >> the key thing here is there are a series of different ways in which you can talk about this in ways which may or may not be related. if we start with education, we see there is now a big gender gap with boys and men following a long way behind in school and college. parents will probably recognize this and see high school through college, there is a big gap. on college campuses, we now see a 60-40 split between female and male students for one good reason, a lot more women are going to college, but a bad reason, fewer men are going to college. we have a bigger gap today than we did in the 1970's when it was the other way around. in some ways, we have created new inequality. it is hard to t

you know, previously about mccarthy and and the way that somebody like joseph welch became very famousor 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 ki 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 this

for all we talk about race and controversy with this book, but joseph mccarthy tried to have the bookanned because of its portrayal of white southerners, which he found offensive. >> chuck, detroit, go ahead. >> good evening. this is a great show, i just wanted to express a question to the professor, which comes from an instructor of mine who had an interesting take. her take was that this was mark twain's attempt to curtail children who were anxious to leave the farm and go into preindustrial cities of the united states. and i thought that was a very interesting perspective, and one i had not heard before. i wonder if the author could address the question, particularly in terms of that in the book, jim and huck, no matter where they went, were always outcasts. >> thank you, chuck, that's an interesting question, i have never heard that before. the bookcase -- book is, i want to say, extraordinarily powerful in celebrating nation hurt and solitude. -- in and solitude. it does make some of those small towns in arkansas and missouri look awfully bad, however. twain himself was conflicte