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...most unequivocal language, the six senators of both parties, who made up the select committee, called McCarthy to account for his conduct in two of the five main groups of charges. He was, they declared, both contemptuous in his refusal to appear before the Hendrickson Committee (which investigated his finances in 1952) and reprehensible in his treatment of General Zwicker. In a manner entirely free from timidity or politicking, they unanimously asked for his censure on both these counts...
...three other categories of charges, the senators felt free to criticize, but refrained from recommending censure. Why the Zwicker and Hendrickson charges were used is clear: they were the most obvious instances of McCarthy's misconduct. And so, quite understandably, they cut off the turtle's tail because it stuck out the farthest, and left the neck alone...
...only witnesses called last week were newsmen, to testify to the charge that McCarthy had ridiculed and abused fellow Senators, e.g., by describing Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders as "senile" and New Jersey's Republican Senator Robert Hendrickson as "a living miracle in that he is without question the only man in the world who has lived so long with neither brains nor guts." Williams' cross-examination of the newsmen was brief...
...really disliked New Jersey's junior U.S. Senator, Robert Hendrickson, but he was considered a political deadweight. Private polls showed that he could not win the general election in November, and perhaps not even the primary. The G.O.P. turned on the pressure, urged him to withdraw in favor of able ex-Congressman Clifford Case. Finally, party leaders told Hendrickson bluntly that he must go -but let him know that such unselfish sacrifice would not be forgotten. Hurt, and a little bewildered, Hendrickson withdrew this spring. Thus Case was assured the Republican nomination...
...last week, as the scandal still simmered, it was announced that Hendrickson will be appointed to the federal bench (he turned down the ambassadorship to New Zealand). Loyal Partyman Hendrickson smiled broadly for the photographers, as well he might. Not many Republican politicians in New Jersey know exactly where they will stand after November, but Bob Hendrickson does...