Video: '1984 Democratic debate: "Where's the beef?"'
(Sunday, March 11, 1984, 5-6:30 p.m. EST) — Former Vice President Walter Mondale’s old-line Democratic Party values and Sen. Gary Hart’s “new ideas” collided today in Atlanta in a final, combative face-to-face meeting of the leading candidates before the crucial “Super Tuesday” voting. Continue reading Mondale asks Hart ‘Where’s the beef?’ during debate 30 years ago this hour (Mar 11 1984)
(Thursday, March 11, 1954; during the Second Red Scare) — The U.S. Army charged today that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, a Republican from Wisconsin, and his subcommittee’s chief counsel, Roy Cohn, had exerted pressure to obtain favored treatment for Pvt. G. David Schine, a former consultant to the subcommittee. The confrontation culminated in the famous Senate Army-McCarthy hearings.
(Friday, March 11, 1864; during the American Civil War) — The Union Army Ambulance Corps was established today by the U.S. Congress.
