peaking against McCarthy in the Senate became political suicide. Politicians were not the only people he ruthlessly attacked with his smear tactics, which were similar to Nazi tactics (Joseph McCarthy 5-6). When up for reelection in 1950, he gave a speech claiming that he had 205 names of security risks in the State Department. The next day, after a newspaper published this, he denied ever having said that and furnished fake speech records showing he said he had fifty-seven nam
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