We need to ask the question asked by Joseph N. Welch of U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy. I was watching television in 1954 when Welch, then the attorney for the U.S. Army, asked Sen. McCarthy, “Have you no ...
Historians widely point to an exchange between U.S. Army counsel Joseph Welch and Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy as the pivotal event leading to the end of the senator’s cruel and unconstrained ...
Can nothing stop President Donald Trump? Despite widespread opposition, Trump continues his blustering, unchecked by the usual guardrails of American politics. He’s attacking Venezuela, then ...
A few days ago, I wrote about the famous takedown of Senator Joe McCarthy in 1954 by the attorney Joseph Welch, which began McCarthy’s downward political slide. Welch said, “Until this moment, Senator ...
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” This famous question was posed to U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy in 1954 by attorney Joseph Welch during the Army-McCarthy hearings. It is widely credited with helping ...
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