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...villain, he claimed, was U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau "and company," who "have abused the power of their office . . . misused public funds . . . sought perjured testimony" out of "personal animus, the desire for political revenge, and an attempt to pander to the longstanding prejudice of his superiors." Among the "superiors," Cohn hinted darkly, was Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, his old foe from the McCarthy Committee days. "History speaks for itself," Cohn told a press conference. "I have never been invited to any of his swimming parties...
That Certain Feeling. As for Morgenthau's "vendetta," it all went back a dozen years or so, Cohn explained, when he was investigating charges of Communist spy infiltration into the Treasury Department. In the 1940s, Cohn recalled, Communist Helper Harry Dexter White was working in the Treasury, and Robert Morgenthau's father Henry was Treasury Secretary. "I have no personal malice toward Morgenthau senior," added Cohn charitably, "but Morgenthau junior has harbored a feeling about this...
Robert M. Morgenthau, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, told reporters that Landis has since "filed returns for the years in question and paid the taxes shown on the returns." He said Landis has paid the government $92,492, about one fourth of which represented penalties and interest, and he praised Landis for offering Federal officials his "full co-operation...
...Morgenthau refused to say whether Landis had filed the delinquent returns before or after government action had been taken. He did say, however, that the government does not customarily prosecute tardy taxpayers who have already started paying back taxes...
Divine Discontent. Humanities are still hungry at Chicago. Yet in history and anthropology, for example, it already claims to be near tops in the U.S. In political science, it has Hans Morgenthau; the divinity school boasts Paul Tillich, Martin Marty and Dean Jerald Brauer, plans to build a separate Lutheran seminary...