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Letter: Where have you gone, Joe McCarthy?

(Herbert K. White | The Associated Press) In this March 9, 1950 file photo, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., gestures during a Senate subcommittee hearing on McCarthy's charges of communist infiltration of the U.S. State Department. President Donald Trump, tweeting over the weekend, invoked both McCarthyism and the Watergate scandal, two of the most-debated chapters of recent American political history.

Russians in our government?

Where is Joe McCarthy now that we need him?

Kathryn Fitzgerald, Salt Lake City

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