Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Week by week, the opposition between President Eisenhower and Senator McCarthy grows sharper. It is no mere clash of personalities, nor does it arise from the sometimes squalid, sometimes ludicrous irrelevancies of the congressional hearings. It goes to the central issue: Who is going to run the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government...
...Executive Branch of the Government has the sole and fundamental responsibility under the Constitution for the enforcement of our laws and presidential orders. They include those to protect the security of our nation which were carefully drawn for this purpose...
...That responsibility cannot be usurped by any individual who may seek to set himself above the laws of our land or to override the orders of the President of the U.S. to Federal employees of the Executive Branch of the Government...
...doubtful." New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith went further. "Beyond belief" was Smith's label for McCarthy's contention that all federal employees had a duty to report to him any information that, in the employee's judgment, indicated illegality or impropriety in the Executive Branch. Smith also attacked McCarthy's refusal to give his committee's information to McClellan. "Every member of that committee," said Smith, "is entitled to all... information that the chairman is entitled to receive...
...mistake. I'm willing to play with any kind of deck they use, but I don't like to see my staff up against a stacked deck." Thursday the Senator was punching harder and lower. "This is the first time I've ever seen the executive branch of the Government take the Fifth Amendment," he said, and charged that the Administration "must have something to hide." Friday he hinted sinisterly, "I think the truth would hurt some people in the Administration." And Saturday he backed up a little, merely calling the President's order "unfortunate...