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...first roll call came on a Dirksen-authored substitute resolution that would have completely cleared Joe of any wrongdoing. It was on this motion that the McCarthyites based their fondest hopes; Dirksen had talked confidently of 30 or 35 favorable votes. While the clerk called the roll, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt pranced up and down like a cheerleader, but to no avail. The resolution was defeated, 66 to 21, and the handwriting was on the wall...
...attention was distracted from Jenner's floor show by a note sent to the press gallery by South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case, a Watkins committee member. Case (who is up for re-election in 1956 in a state where McCarthy has powerful political friends) had suddenly changed his mind about censuring Joe for abusing Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker. Case said he had just learned that the Army had honorably discharged Irving Peress the day after receiving a warning letter from McCarthy. Case's switch came despite the fact that the Peress chronology had been public...
Posies. Some ten feet away from Dirksen, drinking it all in, was North Dakota's Non-Partisan League Senator William Langer. Dirksen's speech, said Langer, "brought tears to my eyes. I wondered if we should not include in the resolution a provision for sending flowers to Senator McCarthy, and whether we should not debate the kind of flowers which should be sent-whether they be forget-me-nots, chrysanthemums or roses...
...Watkins tossed a copy of the corrected report on McCarthy's desk, McCarthy whined that he now had to go through 72 pages. "The Senator from Utah has told me that he knows what these errors are," he complained. "Why does he not mark them for me?" South Dakota's mild-mannered Republican Senator Francis Case, a censure committee member, scurried over to Joe's desk, riffled through the pages and slapped the report down so hard that papers went flying. "It's a marked copy," he snorted...
That night the McCarthy faithful-some 3,500 of them-gathered for a rally in what one of them referred to as the "so-called Constitutional Hall." Tickets were labeled "Admit One Anti-Communist." On hand were South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt, the hapless chairman of the Army-McCarthy hearings; John Maragon, convicted five-percenter, sporting an "I'm for Joe" button; Columnist Westbrook Pegler; and New York's ex-Congressman Ham Fish and Montana's ex-Senator Burton K. Wheeler, relics of another age. Throughout the rally, the vice commander of the Wall...