Joseph McCarthy: Letter to President Dwight Eisenhower

( 1953 ) Commentary by Carl Rollyson, Baruch Colelge, The City University of New York

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Bonn capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990
Cordell Hull U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944
Kirtley Mather American geologist at Harvard University, most famous for providing evidence on behalf of evolutionary teaching in the 1926 Scopes Monkey Trial
Morgenthau Plan a program, named after Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., for occupying and disarming Germany after World War II
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