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...next thing I knew," recalls Mundt, "he was saying, 'Mr. Chairman...
...committee's first open session, a scowling, puffy-eyed McCarthy, his lame right arm still in a sling, lumbered into the hearing room, followed by his wife Jean. South Dakota's Karl Mundt had just sworn in the day's first witness, a onetime FBI undercover source named Herman Thomas. For twelve minutes, Chairman McCarthy sat mute. Then he ambled...
...McCarthy. Joe had first planned, he later confided to a few friends, to shoot his statement from the hip, but since he felt bad, had decided to write it out. In his office he dictated the statement to Jean. Then Mary Driscoll, McCarthy's secretary, delivered it to Mundt, whispering in his ear that her boss would like him to read it into the record and the TV cameras. After glancing over the two sheets of yellow paper, Mundt refused, muttering, "It's unfortunate, and it is not warranted." Secretary Driscoll retreated with the yellow sheets...
Soon Joe McCarthy was back in the hearing room. "As soon as I catch my breath," Joe whispered in Mundt's ear, : want to make a statement." Said Mundt: "It's not warranted. It will be unfortunate, Joe." Joe snapped back: "They have been shooting at me, and I've got to get back at them...
...Dirksen-authored substitute resolution that would have completely cleared Joe of any wrongdoing. It was on this motion that the McCarthyites based their fondest hopes; Dirksen had talked confidently of 30 or 35 favorable votes. While the clerk called the roll, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt pranced up and down like a cheerleader, but to no avail. The resolution was defeated, 66 to 21, and the handwriting was on the wall...