The division between the two major political parties often takes away from the internal conflicts within the those parties. Between 1953 and 1954, his first two years in office, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower came under the scrutiny of Sen. Joseph McCarthy who had already begun his campaign against those in office he believed were tied to the Communist Party.
Join us today as we speak with author David Nichols about the internal party conflict between President Dwight Eisenhower and Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and the parallels between McCarthy's politics and Trump's rhetoric.
Guests:
- David A. Nichols, author, “Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower’s Secret Campaign Against Joseph McCarthy”