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Mindy Finn

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A TIME FOR CHOOSING

How an Actual GOP Hero Spoke Truth to Power—68 Years Ago

Few remember Senator Margaret Chase Smith. But a Republican with some backbone would do well to follow the example she set as McCarthyism flourished.

Mindy Finn

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