On June 1, 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith delivered a courageous speech condemning the fear-driven, baseless anti-communist crusade led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, warning that such tactics threatened American democracy. Her moral stand, though initially ignored, proved prophetic when
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