Tag Archives: Politics

No comments

McCarthyism
McCarthy’s Telegram to President Truman

  By mbirck • February 21, 2014 Uncategorized

Senator Joseph McCarthy sent a telegram to President Harry S. Truman on February 11, 1950, two days after giving a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia that claimed more than 200 members of the State Department were card-carrying members of the Communist party. In his telegram, McCarthy reiterates that he has … Continue reading

No comments

John F. Kennedy
JFK: Establishing the President’s Commission on the Status of Women

  By skdejak • February 21, 2014 Uncategorized

John F. Kennedy's executive order, written on December 14, 1961, on what he believes is the potential and right of women in the United States. Continue reading