Joseph McCarthy

<p><span class="deck"> LBJ AND VIETNAM</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is the federal government’s own picture history of our times—and it tells us more than you might think</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">30 years after judging Eisenhower to be among our worst presidents, historians have now come around to the opinion most of their fellow Americans held right along.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">America looked good to a high school senior then, and that year looks wonderfully safe to us now, but it was a time of tumult, and there were plenty of shadows, along with the sunshine.</span></p>

<p>In 1954, the merciless Joe McCarthy from Wisconsin was finally taken down.</p>

<p>Miscalculations and blunders by world leaders precipitated the Korean War 60 years ago.</p>

<p>Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith was the first in Congress to stand up to the bullying of Joe McCarthy.</p>

<p>Newly released personal papers and transcripts of closed-door hearings reveal both the depth of the senator’s conniving and his surprising charm.</p>