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Secondly, the predicament of Secretary Stevens also serves a purpose. There would have been no need for hearings if President Eisenhower was aware of political realities. In November, he could have given explicit support to the army that produced him by publicly denouncing the distorted picture at Fort Monmouth given by McCarthy. But save for a furtive whisper, the Secretary was left to be devoured by the wolves...
Jenkins: I'll ask you whether or not in those telephone conversations there were discussions not only with reference to Schine but with reference to the McCarthy investigating committee's work at Fort Monmouth. Were those two subjects discussed in the same conversations...
...that the conversations with reference to the investigation of Monmouth and with reference to Schine were intertwined, so to speak, in one telephone conversation...
...able to do. He had arrived in Washington with astonishingly little knowledge of the issues, procedures and pitfalls. One example of his lack of background : he did not realize that there was serious dispute about the merit of whether Joe McCarthy's headline-grabbing hearings at Fort Monmouth had been harmful. At first, Jenkins' questioning was based on the assumption that McCarthy's Fort Monmouth foray was a great service to the U.S., but he soon dropped that line in favor of an impartially open mind on the point...
Stevens had to admit that he had spent an inordinate amount of time and effort "cooperating" with McCarthy & Co. By his use of newspaper headlines in the Monmouth case, McCarthy got Stevens in a position where McCarthy could and did interfere with the functioning of the executive branch of the Government...