Communist Paranoia
"Declaration of Conscience"
Speech
By: Margaret Chase Smith
Date: June 1, 1950
Source: U.S. Senate. Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine Speaking on the Senate Floor for the "Declaration of Conscience." 82d Cong., 1st sess. Congressional Record June 1, 1950, 7894–7895. Reprinted in Woy, Jean L. United States History as Seen by Contemporaries, 10th ed. Vol. 2, Volume II: Since 1865. The American Spirit. Boston: Houghton, 2002, 443–444.
About the Author: Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995) was one of the leading woman politicians in twentieth-century America. Highly independent, she served thirty-two years in the U.S. Congress as a Republican, becoming the first woman to be elected to both the House and Senate. She entered politics in 1940 to fill the seat of her Congressman husband, Clyde Smith, after his death. She won election in 1948 to the...
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