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Turning to the question of congressional investigating commitees, Griswold concluded his speech by questioning the propriety of "one-man" investigating groups. "A committee in the common acceptance of the term," he said, "is a group of persons, usually appointed to represent various points of view. Its actions reflect collective judgement taken after consideration and deliberation. In this light, I ask a question: Should these broad investigative powers ever be held by a single person, even though he is formally clothed with the title of a subcommittee...
...convinced that the hounding of career people by individual Congressmen is very, very wrong. I don't mind holding people responsible for failure, but not for judgement. It is enough now to make a public insinuation to discredit a man in the public eye and deter him from doing his work. Career services should not be a football of politics," he insists...
...inference of guilt which the use of the Fifth Amendment creates as a matter of commonsense. Hence, the use of the Fifth Amendment by a member of our teaching staff within the critical field of his possible domination by the Communist Party, makes it necessary in our judgement for us to inquire into the full facts...
...presidents believe all CP members automatically flunk their tests because of the nature of the group to which they belong. While this is probably true in the great majority of cases, it is not necessarily so in all. Dropping the blanket over all CP professors without passing individual judgement is playing too carelessly with the rights of tenure...
Individual Judgement...