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George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States, Dies At 94 (washingtonpost.com)
George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, has passed away tonight at the age of 94. As The Washington Post reports, he was "the last veteran of World War II to serve as president, he was a consummate public servant and a statesman who helped guide the nation and the world out of a four-decade Cold War that had carried the threat of nuclear annihilation." From the report: Although Mr. Bush served as president three decades ago, his values and ethic seem centuries removed from today's acrid political culture. His currency of personal connection was the handwritten letter -- not the social media blast. He had a competitive nature and considerable ambition that were not easy to discern under the sheen of his New England politesse and his earnest generosity. He was capable of running hard-edge political campaigns, and took the nation to war. But his principal achievements were produced at negotiating tables.
Despite his grace, Mr. Bush was an easy subject for caricature. He was an honors graduate of Yale University who was often at a loss for words in public, especially when it came to talking about himself. Though he was tested in combat when he was barely out of adolescence, he was branded "a wimp" by those who doubted whether he had essential convictions. This paradox in the public image of Mr. Bush dogged him, as did domestic events. His lack of sure-footedness in the face of a faltering economy produced a nosedive in the soaring popularity he enjoyed after the triumph of the Persian Gulf War. In 1992, he lost his bid for a second term as president. Bush's spokesman Jim McGrath announced his death on Twitter, but didn't provide the cause of death. In 2012, he announced that he had vascular Parkinsonism, a condition that limited his mobility.
UPDATE: George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has issued a statement on the passing of his father: "Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Doro, and I are saddened to announce that after 94 remarkable years, our dear Dad has died. George H. W. Bush was a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for. The entire Bush family is deeply grateful for 41's life and love, for the compassion of those who have cared and prayed for Dad, and for the condolences of our friends and fellow citizens."
Despite his grace, Mr. Bush was an easy subject for caricature. He was an honors graduate of Yale University who was often at a loss for words in public, especially when it came to talking about himself. Though he was tested in combat when he was barely out of adolescence, he was branded "a wimp" by those who doubted whether he had essential convictions. This paradox in the public image of Mr. Bush dogged him, as did domestic events. His lack of sure-footedness in the face of a faltering economy produced a nosedive in the soaring popularity he enjoyed after the triumph of the Persian Gulf War. In 1992, he lost his bid for a second term as president. Bush's spokesman Jim McGrath announced his death on Twitter, but didn't provide the cause of death. In 2012, he announced that he had vascular Parkinsonism, a condition that limited his mobility.
UPDATE: George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has issued a statement on the passing of his father: "Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Doro, and I are saddened to announce that after 94 remarkable years, our dear Dad has died. George H. W. Bush was a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for. The entire Bush family is deeply grateful for 41's life and love, for the compassion of those who have cared and prayed for Dad, and for the condolences of our friends and fellow citizens."
OK, I'll bite: who were some of the people who were accused who were innocent?
Quoting from Wikipedia:
Nelson Algren, Lucille Ball, Alvah Bessie, Elmer Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein, David Bohm,
Bertolt Brecht, Archie Brown, Esther Brunauer, Charlie Chaplin, Aaron Copland, Bartley Crum,Howard Da Silva, Jules Dassin, Dolores del RÃo, Edward Dmytryk, W.E.B. Du Bois, George A. Eddy, Albert Einstein, Hanns Eisler, Howard Fast, Lion Feuchtwanger, Carl Foreman, John Garfield, C.H. Garrigues,
Jack Gilford, Allen Ginsberg, Ruth Gordon, Lee Grant, Dashiell Hammett, Elizabeth Hawes, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Healey,Lena Horne, Langston Hughes, Marsha Hunt, Sam Jaffe, Theodore Kaghan,
Garson Kanin, Benjamin Keen, Otto Klemperer, Gypsy Rose Lee, Cornelius Lanczos,Ring Lardner Jr., Arthur Laurents, Philip Loeb, Joseph Losey, Albert Maltz, Heinrich Mann, Klaus Mann, Thomas Mann, Thomas McGrath, Burgess Meredith, Arthur Miller, Jessica Mitford, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Zero Mostel, Joseph Needham, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Dorothy Parker, Linus Pauling, Samuel Reber, Al Richmond, Martin Ritt, Paul Robeson, Edward G. Robinson, Waldo Salt, Jean Seberg, Pete Seeger, Artie Shaw, Irwin Shaw, William L. Shirer, Lionel Stander, Dirk Jan Struik, Paul Sweezy, Charles W. Thayer, Dalton Trumbo, Tsien Hsue-shen, Sam Wanamaker, Orson Welles, Gene Weltfish.
and that is just some of the notable people. Think of the thousands of others fired, blacklisted, and deported. Also read Yates v. United States, Watkins v. United States.
We aren't talking about people going to jail here. You just can't serve in the US government when your goal is to overthrow said government. That's all.
Somebody isn't familiar with the history of Red Scares in America, which preceded McCarthy, and include false accusations of violence(Haymarket Square), imprisonment (Debs), deportation, subversion(cointelpro), blacklisting(Dalton Trumbo), and more acts of oppression like forbidding the flying of the Bolshevik flag.
Even school children were punished for not saying the pledge of allegiance.
Only a few percent of their population were Communists, and they nonetheless dominated over a hundred million of their countrymen. They invented the GULAG.
Gulags were actually implemented under the Russian Tsars, they just called them Katorga. And of course, the idea of deportation to the colonies existed in Great Britain (Australia, the Americas), and even older examples like the Babylonian Captivity exist.