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Meeting No. 2. From Nixon's hideaway, Dirksen strolled over to Mundt's office, where he found Joe McCarthy, Said Dirksen: "Joe, would you sit down and talk it over? There is nothing to lose." It took some persuading to break; down the obdurate McCarthy, but at; length he agreed. Mundt phoned Stevens, suggesting lunch the next day. Stevens assented−and he made the fantastic mistake of taking literally Mundt's request, not to tell "anyone" about the date...
...Karl Mundt into the Capitol's room P-54. Later, a Washington quipster observed that when Stevens entered the room, he was "like a goldfish in a tank of barracuda." Meeting No. 4 featured fried chicken, peas, french fries, head-of-lettuce salad and Joe McCarthy. Also present: Dirksen, and later, Potter. Stevens started with a complaint about McCarthy's abuse of Zwicker. Retorted McCarthy: How could the Army explain the court-martialing of "a poor, brainwashed G.I."* in contrast to the honorable discharge it handed to a "Fifth Amendment Communist"−Peress...
...Stevens' next big mistake. The discussion shifted to a friendly, businesslike tone, which lasted half an hour. The Senators appealed to Stevens to help preserve party solidarity by avoiding a televised clash with McCarthy which could only, they said, help the Democrats. Soothing words by a mellifluous Dirksen and smiles from McCarthy somehow convinced Bob Stevens that he had the committee's promise of better future treatment for Army officers. The change of tone became, in Stevens' mind, an important feature of the meeting. Unhappily, this was not recorded anywhere except in Stevens' mind...
Meeting No. 6. Amid reports that Stevens was about to resign, Nixon, Rogers and White House aides went into Meeting No. 6. They drafted a statement which they hoped to get McCarthy and his committee Republicans to issue. Dirksen was summoned to the White House, where he chatted briefly with the President, who said: "I'd like to see if you can do this...
Harvard is covered by the Post from Washington, too, by special correspondent John G. Kelso. Kelso's writing, sharp and fast-moving, makes easy reading. His favorite Washington lead is "Angry Senators today demanded . . . ," although his stock of Senators is usually limited to McCarran, McClellan, Ferguson, Dirksen and McCarthy...