Word: counseling
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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...
Mundt's inquiry, the committee decided, will be "to the exclusion of all other hearings," i.e., McCarthy may not begin new probes until the committee has finished scrutinizing his own activities. Senator McCarthy, declining to disqualify himself completely, will continue as a committee member; and Counsel Cohn, though removed from any part in the proceedings except as a witness, will continue on the committee's payroll...
...McClellan, the committee's senior Democrat, hoping at least to move the brawl off the political street corner and into the controlled conditions of the rope-bound ring, set about finding a referee-a fair-minded lawyer with unassailable reputation to take Cohn's place as chief counsel. As the search went on, Joe McCarthy headed for Chicago...
Riesel was the only non-labor representative on the four-man panel, which also included Gus Tyler, political head of David Dubinsky's ILGWU, Robert Segal, counsel for the Massachusetts Federation of Labor, and Al Barkan, chairman of the political division of CIO textile workers...
...rights of the witness should be better protected. He should be informed in advance of the general scope of the questions he will be asked, and should able to insured the right to explain his answers. His right to counsel should be insured, and his consent should be allowed to speak...