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Joseph Raymond McCarthy foi um político norte-americano, membro inicialmente do Partido Democrata, e mais tarde do Partido republicano. McCarthy foi senador do estado de Wisconsin entre 1947 e 1957.

Nascido e criado em uma fazenda em Wisconsin, McCarthy graduou-se em direito em 1935 e em 1939 foi eleito o mais jovem juiz da história do estado. Aos 33 anos, McCarthy inscreveu-se como voluntario no Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais dos Estados Unidos e serviu durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Em 1946 elegeu-se para o Senado dos Estados Unidos e depois de três anos sem grande destaque, em fevereiro de 1950 McCarthy subitamente se destaca no cenário nacional ao afirmar em um discurso que tinha uma lista dos "membros do Partido Comunista e dos membros de uma rede de espionagem" empregados dentro do Departamento de Estado Norte Americano. Devido as tensões da Guerra Fria que alimentaram temores de subversão comunista generalizada, a declaração de McCarthy o transformou na figura pública mais visível. Passou a ser conhecido por suas declarações de que havia um grande número de comunistas, espiões soviéticos e simpatizantes dentro do governo federal norte-americano. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. Novembro 1908 – 2. Maio 1957
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Joseph McCarthy: Frases em inglês

“Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general.”

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Remark to Gen. Ralph Zwicker during the Army investigations (18 February 1954), as quoted in A Conspiracy So Immense (2005) by David M. Oshinsky

“I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.”

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Attributed to a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia (9 February 1950), as printed in the Wheeling Intelligencer. At dispute is whether McCarthy claimed 205 names, as many historical accounts say, or 57 names, as McCarthy said on the Senate floor; see Congressional Record (20 February 1950) http://www.wvculture.org/hiStory/government. McCarthy admitted using the number 205 in speeches, but in reference to a statistic for which he had no names. Eyewitnesses to the speech remember him referring to both figures at different points. McCarthy provided a copy of his list to Sen. Millard Tydings on request; it had 81 names, some of which had handwritten annotations. He refused to disclose all of the names publicly unless given access to relevant government files, citing libel concerns. See also Blacklisted from History (2007) by M. Stanton Evans.
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“Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down — they are truly down.”

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Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia (9 February 1950), as quoted at History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6456

“As you know, very recently the secretary of state proclaimed his loyalty to a man guilty of what has always been considered as the most abominable of all crimes — of being a traitor to the people who gave him a position of great trust. The secretary of state, in attempting to justify his continued devotion to the man who sold out the Christian world to the atheistic world, referred to Christ's Sermon on the Mount as a justification and reason therefore, and the reaction of the American people to this would have made the heart of Abraham Lincoln happy. When this pompous diplomat in striped pants, with a phony British accent, proclaimed to the American people that Christ on the Mount endorsed communism, high treason, and betrayal of a sacred trust, the blasphemy was so great that it awakened the dormant indignation of the American people.
He has lighted the spark which is resulting in a moral uprising and will end only when the whole sorry mess of twisted warped thinkers are swept from the national scene so that we may have a new birth of national honesty and decency in government.”

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Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia (9 February 1950), as quoted at Civics Online http://www.civics-online.org/library/formatted/texts/mccarthy.html