My Conscience To Fit This Year's Fashions By Joseph Mccarthy

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In the story, Democrats and Communists Senator Joseph McCarthy discusses how the communists are ruining the nation. The majority of the state department at this time was filled with communists which McCarthy did not think was right. He considered the state department to be an extremely important department and thought that the communists were infesting it and making our nation have tratorous like actions. The reason America was losing the cold war was due to the Truman administration being swarmed with communists. McCarthy claimed to know 205 of the communists and the ones who questioned his methods were the ones whom were the subject of attacks as well as smear campaigns. Then, in 1950 Millard Tydings dismissed McCarthy’s charges and considered …show more content…

It was a letter to The House Committee on Un-American Activities also known as HUAC because of their hearings they were holding on communist activity in Hollywood and in 1951 Lillian was summoned to testify. In Lillian’s letter to the HUAC she discussed that she was more than willing to answer all of the questions about herself, “I have nothing to hide from your committee and there is nothing in my life of which I am ashamed”. It was said that under the Fifth Amendment she was able to decline to answer any questions regarding her political opinions. However; she did not want that privilege. She wanted to testify regardless of the risks and consequences she said knowing that previously ten movie writers and directors were sent to prison because they refused to answer the questions. The downfall to her answering the questions about herself was that that meant she would be forced to answer any questions that could potentially be asked about others as well. This is where Lillian drew the line. In the letter she wrote, “...I am not willing, now or in the future, to bring bad trouble to people who, in my past association with them, were completely innocent of any talk or any action that was disloyal or subversive”. She did not want to answer questions about others and bring trouble upon them she considered that to be

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