such actions have influenced constituent demands for congressional reform. An excellent example of such a phenomenon was that involving Senator Joseph McCarthy (R Wis) in the post Second World War period. With the advent of the Second World War, Red baiting in the United States subsided, as the Soviet Union became and American ally. The lull, however, was short lived. When Harry S. Truman became president in 1945, there were numerous federal and state anti communist laws in force. Where President Roosevelt had __________
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ignored most such laws as undemocratic at best and unconstitutional at worst, President Truman initiated a vigorous enforcement of the laws. Therefore, Red baiting became fashionable once again, and the repression of radicals again became government policy.
In spite of President Truman's enforcement of anti communist laws, the reactionary, Republican controlled 80th Co
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