Word: bohlen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picking up McCarran's remark about a test, Dulles said that since there had been a full investigation of Bohlen and that the President and the Foreign Relations Committee had been fully informed of it, the whole case was merely "an acid test of the orderly process of our Government...
...then Joe McCarthy threw back some acid of his own. He had "definitely established," he said, that McLeod had refused to clear Bohlen; Dulles' statements on McLeod's position were "untrue." Three times McCarthy scheduled meetings of his investigating subcommittee to hear what McLeod had to say. Three times McLeod failed to appear. Someone, said McCarthy, had "ordered" McLeod to lie low until the Senate confirmed Bohlen...
McCarthy proposed that Bohlen take a lie-detector test. Bob Taft rose to ask if McCarthy knew that the FBI has no confidence in the lie detector. McCarthy snapped right back at the majority leader. That was not true, he said...
Despite all the sound & fury, the prospect was still that Bohlen would be confirmed by an overwhelming margin. G.O.P. leaders on Capitol Hill didn't want to repudiate an Eisenhower appointment...
...Right Man? The victory would be no tribute to the Administration's handling of the case. Dulles had nominated Bohlen before the FBI check was made. Bohlen had never before been subjected to an FBI investigation. When the report came in, Dulles evaluated the implications against Bohlen as unproved and unsupported-and he convinced the Foreign Relations Committee that he was right. But McCarthy & Co. could take advantage of the fact that Dulles was in the awkward position of justifying an appointment made before he had the FBI check, and that his department's security...