about a very brave woman who stood up in 1950, for years before joe mccarthy was censured by the united states senate, two years before dwight eisenhower was going to say something against mccarthy and was talked out of it during the 1952 campaign. and it was senator smith who is right. and she was right early. mccarthy had his escalator ride, and it was wheeling west on lincoln s birthday, february 12th 1950 he gave a speech to the republican women of west virginia at hotel mclaren think it was. and he said 205 communists that infiltrated the state department and conspiracy that it boggles the mind. in, that he was pulling to cold war fears. he was also tapping into a deep american tradition of populist