Joseph Mccarthy's Loyalty Program

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President Harry Truman signed the Executive Order 9835, the document established a loyalty program, designed to eliminate communist influence in the United States. According to this order, citizens entering employment would undergo a loyalty investigation to further prove loyalties to the Nation and disprove communist ties. Joseph McCarthy soon jumped on this idea of a loyalty program and took it a step further. Soon after the rise of McCarthy, Henry Steele Commager arose; he was not a fan of the loyalty order or the push for anti-communist beliefs. Joseph R. McCarthy was a U.S. senator who believed that there were a vast number of communists working for the State Department. McCarthy strongly believed that the most privileged and wealthiest