Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Needed: a Referee. The Schine case had clearly forced the issue of who was lying, McCarthy or Army Secretary Robert Stevens. McCarthy denied that he and his 27-year-old counsel, Roy Cohn, had demanded special treatment and numerous petty favors for Draftee Schine. He lashed back with desperate countercharges, e.g., the Army was using Schine as a "hostage" to "blackmail" him and, to take the heat off itself, had offered tips on "dirt" in the other services. Stevens denied the countercharges...
...Adams went to the Capitol and called on Mr. Cohn and Mr. Carr in Mr. Cohn's office in the Senate Investigations Subcommittee. General discussion was had concerning the Private Schine situation and the progress of the McCarthy committee investigation at Fort Monmouth. Knowing that 90% of all inductees get overseas duty and that there were nine chances out of ten that Private Schine would be facing overseas duty when he concluded his tour at Camp Gordon, Mr. Adams informed Mr. Cohn of this situation...
...Cohn, upon hearing this, said this would "wreck the Army" and cause Mr. Stevens to be "through as Secretary of the Army...
Senator McCarthy pointed out that the Army was walking into a long-range fight with Mr. Cohn and that even if Mr. Cohn resigned or was fired from the committee staff, he would carry on his campaign against the Army from outside Washington...
When Committee Counsel Roy Cohn insisted that there was secret evidence, which he could not produce, that Mrs. Moss was a Communist, Arkansas Democratic Senator John L. McClellan bitterly decried "convicting people by rumor and hearsay and innuendo." When Mrs. Moss admitted that she knew a Negro named "Rob Hall" (whom Cohn identified by name as a representative of the Communist Daily Worker), a reporter reminded Democratic members in a whisper that the Worker's Hall (its longtime Washington correspondent) is a white man. Cohn blandly promised to "check" the discrepancy...