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Just looking for an outside opinion to add to my own for this. I know that there are those who where against him as well as for. But this is more of a personal level on your feeling about him and why.

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I would say that I have a negative opinion of Senator McCarthy for the following reasons...

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I would say that I have a negative opinion of Senator McCarthy. This is a man who was the face of a very dark time in American 20th century politics. He was noted for conducting unsubstantiated claims that there were many Communists, Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the US federal ...

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