Good morning.
Whitewater’s Sunday looks to be cloudy with gradual clearing, and a high of fifty-four. We’ll have 9h 14m of sunlight, and 10h 17m of daylight. Tomorrow will be one minute shorter/.
On this day in 1954, the U.S. Senate voted to censure Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy. Here’s how the New York Times reported McCarthy’s politically fatal day:
Washington, Dec 2–The Senate voted 67 to 22 tonight to condemn Joseph R. McCarthy, Republican Senator from Wisconsin.
Every one of the forty-four Democrats present voted against Mr. McCarthy. The Republicans were evenly divided–twenty-two for condemnation and twenty-two against. The one independent, Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, also voted against Mr. McCarthy.
In the ultimate action the Senate voted to condemn Senator McCarthy for contempt of a Senate Elections subcommittee that investigated his conduct and financial affairs, for abuse of its members, and for his insults to the Senate itself during the censure proceeding.
Google’s puzzle for today brings a geography puzzle: “What “autonomous region” includes nine major islands and an islet cluster, in three main groups?”