I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I was a kid, McCarthy was basically the boogieman.
He was scarier than Henry Kissinger, even scarier than Ronald Reagan.
To answer your question, yes, I was a very weird kid.
Joseph McCarthy was a politician through and through. He knew how to spin the facts to his advantage…
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