Telegram from Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Harry S. Truman (modified)
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Guiding Questions:
1. What do you think were McCarthy’s intentions for
sending this telegram to the President? (Provide
evidence from the text to support your thoughts.)
2. How do you think President Truman would react to this
telegram? What evidence from the text supports this?
Source: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/mccarthy-telegram/
Reply from President Harry S. Truman to Senator Joseph McCarthy (probably unsent)
Guiding Questions:
1. How would you describe Truman’s attitude and
tone toward Senator McCarthy? What words from
the text suggest this?
2. Why do you think Truman refers to McCarthy as
having “little sense of responsibility”? How does
this relate to the idea of McCarthyism?
Source: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/mccarthy-telegram/