A successful actress before her election to Congress in 1945, Helen Gahagan Douglas used her celebrity to publicize the programs she backed. She was a devoted internationalist and her political agenda included support of American participation in the United Nations and implementation of the Bretton Woods Agreements, which created the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Her outspoken opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee, and her subsequent labeling as a “Red” cost her election to the Senate.
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