09 June 2010

History for the day

On 9 June 1954, Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Senator Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army Hearings, over McCarthy's attack on a member of Welch's law firm, Frederick G. Fisher.
Said Welch: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

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