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Jenkins was about to go to court in a case involving a barking dog* when he was called to Washington to handle the case involving Joe McCarthy. An old acquaintance, Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, had suggested him for the job. After the call came, Ray broke the news to Partners Erby and Aubrey Jenkins (brothers, but no kin to Ray) with the preface: "The most fantastic thing has happened...
Down the Road a Piece. That ended the Sears interlude; before it adjourned for lunch, the committee had his resignation. The problem then was to find a replacement. Two days before, Mundt had telephoned Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen, a committee member, in Huntsville, Tenn., asked him to rush back to Washington for the Sears showdown. Dirksen told Mundt that an important celebration prevented his immediate return: the first birthday of his only grandson, Darek Dirksen Baker...
...delay was fortunate for the Mundt committee, for on Darek's birthday Senator Dirksen found the committee a new lawyer, thus averting a further search which might again indefinitely postpone the investigation...
...Huntsville, Dirksen related later, "I looked down the road a bit and wondered, 'Where do we go from here?' I was planting shrubbery . . . and his name popped into my mind." The name was that of Knoxville Lawyer Ray H. (for Howard) Jenkins, who in 1940 had managed the unsuccessful senatorial campaign of Darek's other grandfather, Republican Congressman Howard Baker...
...visits to Tennessee during the last four years, Dirksen had met Jenkins, whom he described as "just about the best trial lawyer in East Tennessee." Big (6 ft. 3 in., 195 lbs.), rawboned Lawyer Jenkins was a Taft Republican in 1952. But at the G.O.P. Convention, Jenkins urged the Taft-controlled Tennessee delegation to switch to Ike. "Let's get behind somebody who can win," he pleaded. Last week's check of Jenkins' record by newsmen and the committee seemed to bear out his statement that he has never publicly expressed opinions about McCarthy...