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eShirl

(19,236 posts) Sun Mar 23, 2025, 08:54 AM Mar 23

WCBB's Angus King "A Conversation with Margaret Chase Smith" 1988

Before he became a senator, Angus King was a television host for WCBB Channel 10, a PBS affiliate in Maine. In this 1988 special, Senator King has an hour-long conversation with Senator Margaret Chase Smith. They discuss her upbringing, the challenges of being in politics and what really happened during her famous "Declaration of Conscience" speech that sowed the seeds of Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall.

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The Declaration of Conscious Speech was not written avebury Mar 23 #1

avebury

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1. The Declaration of Conscious Speech was not written

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Sun Mar 23, 2025, 06:40 PM

Mar 23

by Senator Smith or anyone in her office. It was written by another Senator who realized that it would have more impact if he could get Smith to deliver it. He offered it to her essentially on a silver platter with full rights to have total claim on it.

A really good friend of our family was her Executive Assistant for years, close enough that Smith and her military aide joined Jackie and her family on a family vacation to Norway.

My father new the Senator well enough that he made arrangements for him, my mom and myself to take her out to lunch one day. The Senator's Library is attached to her home. She gave me a private tour of the Library. It was an interesting afternoon hearing her tell stories of her time in office.

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