Nevada Democratic senator Pat McCarran said he wanted to save the United States from communism and “Jewish interests.” His solution was the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, ...

Las Vegas City Hall does not display nor possess a photo of the mayor considered “the most controversial” in the town’s ...

Woodrow Wilson became the first African American to serve in the Nevada Legislature. He went through a lot to get there.

Washington still cherishes a belief that it was long a place of bipartisan comity, of after-hours socializing during which fences were leapt and mended and the gears of the republic were ...

As a result of such wild reporting in Britain’s press many a Briton is led to believe that the U.S. is dominated by Senators Joe McCarthy and Pat McCarran, and that it is a slick, grossly ...

When it came to questioning, the examiners were no match for their witness. Nevada’s tawny old Pat McCarran was confounded by the Professor’s Socratic questions. Asked by Senator Borah how the ...

(Christopher Dilts / Bloomberg via Getty Images) In 1950, Nevada Democratic senator Pat McCarran said he wanted to save the United States from communism and “Jewish interests.” His solution was the ...

D. McKellar. Senator McKellar had been anxious to acquire even more land for the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and added an amendment to legislation sponsored by Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada, ...