Eisenhower Criticizes McCarthy - March 9, 1954
I thought this article was interesting for a couple of reasons. First, I have a serious concern that today, especially the young people, do not have a proper understanding of Communism, and, also, I find it interesting to note how much more careful and discerning our government was fifty to one-hundered years ago, when it came to being diligent in confronting and dealing with issues of Communism. They knew Communism was wrong and would be harmful to a nation. Today, sadly, people don't see that. Americanism vs. Communism was taken out of our school systems, and even today people don't have an accurate view of what really went on in History (thus the reason for my writing this blog!).
I am amazed at how fast we forget. Maybe the forgetting is intentional or maybe not. If you go to a college campus and ask students who Hitler was, many of them have no idea. Isn't that sad? Not only sad, but scary. History often repeats itself and ignorance is our worst enemy.
I will post part of an article from www.history.com on the event that happened today in History.
On this day in 1954, President Eisenhower writes a letter to his friend, Paul Helms, in which he privately criticizes Senator Joseph McCarthy's approach to rooting out communists in the federal government. Two days earlier, former presidential candidateAdlai Stevenson had declared that the president's silence on McCarthy's actions was tantamount to approval. Eisenhower, who viewed political mud-slinging as beneath the office of the president, declined to comment publicly on Stevenson's remark or McCarthy's tactics.
There is more to this article and you can read it at: www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eisenhower-criticizes-mccarthy
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