sir? those famous lines ordered by the lawyer, joseph wells, on june 9th, 1954, effectively marked the end of mccarthy-ism, and the investigations that wisconsin senator joseph mccarthy was conducting as chair of the senate permit cup subcommittee on investigations, created initially to investigate government fraud and waste, but he quickly turned into a political pet project to investigate what mccarthy claimed was communist infiltration at all levels of the government. the origins of the mccarthy investigation could be traced back to the post world war i overmine committee, a subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee, and to the house special committee to investigate communist activities in the united states, aka, the fish committee, formed and chaired by new york representative hamilton fish. the fish committee walked into the famous house on american activities committee, formed in 1938, and chaired by texas representative merchandise. much like mccarthy, 12 years
we have the story, and we drew the picture. so, that is usually how it work. every once in a while, i will have an idea for a, all draw a picture and be like, this is what i want to do a book of! that is my newest book, that s coming out in february. that book was actually done that way. i created an image for children s book week, and i loved the image so much i was like, i really want to do a book about this. so, i, my coauthor, kate mesar and i, worked together to make a story just around the picture. so, that was actually very unique. we look forward to having you back, just to talk about books and not the fact of the band. thank you very much, grace, for being there. award-winning author of numerous books, including today s feature, a big mooncake for little star. all that talk of mooncakes got me hungry. i want to get my hands on. one i will have to settle for a flan or a cookie. anyway, that s it for me. thanks for watching. catching back here tomorrow morning for 8 to 10 a.m.