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U.S. Army chief counsel Joseph Welch (left) and Sen. Joe McCarthy (right) say it with gestures during the celebrated Army-McCarthy hearings in Washington, D.C., in June 1954. During the hearings, Welch famously asked McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Photo courtesy of the Associated Press