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...closed meeting of the committee charged with probing the dispute, Acting Chairman Karl Mundt requested both sides to present him with formal specifications of their complaints. Joe McCarthy's precocious Counsel Roy Cohn represented his boss, who was in Arizona treating a throat infection with dry desert air. Senator McCarthy had made no charges against the Army, said Cohn, but would merely answer the Army's accusations...
That did not fool the Mundt committee's Counsel Ray Jenkins for an instant. McCarthy had charged the Army with "blackmail," he snapped, and if Cohn did not want to write out the details, he, Jenkins, would. Cohn backtracked, agreed to supply the information...
...bill of particulars" against McCarthy & Co. were circulated around Capitol Hill. Inevitably the bill leaked out to newsmen. To prevent further "piecemeal leaks," Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, a committee Democrat, released the full text. McCarthy, himself a skillful practitioner of the calculated leak, cried foul. Cohn trumpeted a threat to obstruct the investigation, and demanded an investigation of the leaks. Later he withdrew the threat...
...beds are hard? You have to pull K.P. and extra guard? The corporal's rude, the sergeant impolite? The captain will not let you out at night? They will not let you have a private phone? It's clear, my boy, you don't know Mr. Cohn. You have a gripe? Don't tell the chaplain, son. You'll have to carry that big heavy gun, You'll have to march and even stand in line, Unless you know a certain Private Schine Who knows a man called Cohn who knows...
...turn, and, mostly, in their own words. It highlighted the interesting process by which Senator McCarthy has sought, in a few short weeks, to change his role from that of participant in the fray to that of a sorrowing observer of an unfortunate scuffle between his counsel, Roy Cohn, and the Army's counsel, John Adams. Daly was eminently successful in his announced purpose of taking up one subject each week "and wringing...