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With that testimony from the Republicans' majority leader and the Democrats' 1952 candidate for Vice President, the security case against Chip Bohlen collapsed. As suddenly as they had picked up the security charge in the midst of the Bohlen battle, the anti-Bohlen forces dropped it. They retreated to their original (and less marshy) ground: Bohlen should not be confirmed because he was a key man in the Roosevelt-Truman-Acheson foreign policy, and, in the Republican year, 1953, was still defending the Yalta agreement...
Collapse & Retreat. Next day, on the Senate floor, Bob Taft rose to give his verdict. Said he: "I could not find anything which seemed to . . . supply any prima facie evidence that Mr. Bohlen had in any way done anything which would make him a bad security risk. The associations he had were those which anyone might have had . . . I could see nothing which could create the most remote guilt-by-association accusation that could be thought of." John Sparkman quickly agreed...
Soon the debate was dizzily racing off on another tangent. New Hampshire's Republican Styles Bridges, president pro tem of the Senate, recalled that Bohlen's supporters had said that a three-man committee of venerable career diplomats-Joseph C. Grew, Norman Armour and Hugh Gibson-had recommended Bohlen. He now had definite word that Gibson did no such thing. Within a few minutes, Illinois' Everett Dirksen had something to add: he had left the Senate floor and telephoned Mr. Gibson, who confirmed exactly what Bridges said...
Tread & Needle. That brought California's Senator William Knowland to his feet. Foster Dulles had sent him a letter signed by Grew, Armour and Gibson, recommending an accompanying list of prospects for diplomatic posts. On the list: Chip Bohlen, as Ambassador to Moscow. The letter and memo were classified documents and could not be read on the floor, said Knowland, but they clearly recommended Bohlen...
...announced that he didn't want a vote after 5 p.m. because he had to be home at 5:30 for a tea in honor of Mamie Eisenhower. At the Tafts' red brick Victorian house in Georgetown, men who had been snarling at one another over the Bohlen case met, chatted and sipped. Everything was as sweet as California port until one of the guests, American-turned-Briton Nancy Astor, sidled up to Joe McCarthy. Said razor-tongued Lady Astor, eying Joe's drink: "I hope it's poison." Said Joe later: "I've been...