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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI
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The Tensions Between McCarthyism and Hooverism
Hoover is really ultimately probably the more important figure. McCarthy, you know, kind of came on the national scene in a big way in 1950. By 1954, he is being censured by the Senate and essentially forced out of American political life,. He dies of alcoholism in 1957. And Hoover's just there saying the same thing with this much more powerful apparatus as McCarthy fades from the scene.
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