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This episode chronicles the anti-Communist fervor of the 1940s and '50s, and the rise and fall of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. “Americans had become frightened not just of Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Tung, but of one another,” notes host Mike Wallace.
A review of the First Ladies since Eleanor Roosevelt. "The job," says host Mike Wallace, "has evolved from a ceremonial backdrop into a vital presence on the world stage." Included: assessments of the First Ladies by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin; excerpts from CBS interviews with First Ladies Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Since World War II, high-tech weapons have influenced outcomes in the battlefield, and their continued development promises to make future wars quicker, more violent, and more information driven.
