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The Declaration of Conscience speech, by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith, is delivered in response to Joseph R. McCarthy's speech at Wheeling, West Virginia.
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Declaration of Conscience
1950 speech by U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith
The Declaration of Conscience was a Cold War speech made by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith on June 1, 1950, less than four months after Senator Joseph McCarthy's "Wheeling Speech", on February 9, 1950. Her speech was endorsed by six other liberal-to-moderate…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Maine
U.S. state
Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Contiguous United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Margaret Chase Smith
American politician (1897–1995)
Margaret Madeline Chase Smith was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S. representative (1940–1949) and a U.S. senator (1949–1973) from Maine. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress. A Republican, she…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Joseph McCarthy
American politician (1908–1957)
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Wheeling, West Virginia
City in the United States
Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The county seat of Ohio County, it lies along the Ohio River in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains within the state's northern panhandle. It is the fifth-most populous city in West…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
June 1
Day of the year
June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 213 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)