Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” That vivid imprecation, one of the most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We need to ask the question asked by Joseph N. Welch of U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy. I was watching television in 1954 when Welch, ...

In 1954, a Boston lawyer named Joseph Welch was hired by the Army to be its chief counsel before a Senate committee that was hunting communists. Senator Joe McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican, chaired ...

That vivid imprecation, one of the most telling in American history, was uttered by a crusty Boston lawyer named Joe Welch to Joseph McCarthy, the inflammatory Republican senator from Wisconsin. Many ...