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Olivia =**The Army-McCarthy Hearings**= The hearings occurred in 1954 from April 22nd until June 17th. It was debatable what happened in the Army McCarthy Hearings. But this is what really happened.

David Schine was drafted into the military in 1953 and then the United States Army accused Joe McCarthy of pressuring the army to give favorable treatment to David Schine. There were about 36 days of the hearings and about 20 million people watched them. The army hearings were broadcast for 188 hours. The hearings were nationally televised. Army hearings were sprawled out for two months. June 9th the hearing climaxed when he attacked a young lawyer who worked for a Iowa firm called Joesph Nye Welch. The way Welch replied to Joe became famous. He said, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you no sense of decency?"

After this hearing McCarthy’s reputation never recovered. On December 2,1954 the senate voted and passed a resolution. The resolution said that Joe McCarthy abused his power as a senator. He then stayed as the Senator but he was only given a little power. The congress and other members of the White House and most of the media now ignored him. This is how the hearing was held. At the hearing there was a total of 32 witnesses.

After the hearing they found out that McCarthy had not done any harm to David Schine. The Army McCarthy hearing was the most famous hearing of mostly innocent people. This was a very important key event in the fall of McCarthy's life. Also it was an important event in his position in power society and politics. The hearing was broadcast on ABC and Dumont networks. He stepped into an attack on President Truman’s foreign policy agenda.

This was an important topic in history because it was a hearing that a Senator did something that he was not supposed to. We learned about this because it was a very important time in history. Joe McCarthy was innocent. He didn't do anything to David Schine.

=**Extra Focus**= My extra focus is how McCarthy died. Joe McCarthy had been drinking heavily for many years and finally the doctors discovered that he had cirrhosis of the liver. He was an alcoholic and he was unable to take the advice of doctors and friends to stop drinking. Joseph McCarthy died at the Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 2nd, 1957. The newspapers said that he had drank himself to death.

Several symptoms of cirrhosis of the liver are exhaustion, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, weakness, weight loss, abdominal pain and spider like blood vessels that appear on your skin. Many people that have this disease don't have these symptoms in the early stages. Some complications of this disease are bruising and bleeding, loss of liver functions, gallstones, toxins in the blood and brain, sensitivity to medication, liver cancer, problems in the organs itching, and jaundice which is yellowing of your skin and the whites of your eyes.

The diagnosis of this disease is tested based on symptoms, medical history, lab tests, and a physical examination. During the physical examination the doctor can tell whether your liver is larger and harder. But to make sure you don't have this disease the doctor will do a liver biopsy. The doctor will take a small piece of your liver and look at it under a microscope.

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de Antonio, Emile, and Daneil Talbot. Point of Order! A documentary of the Army- McCarthy Hearings. Straight, Michael. Trial by Television. Boston: Beacon, 1954. http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/A/htmlA/army-mccarthy/army-mccarthy.htm

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/cirrhosis/#symptoms- liver disease

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