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Fifteen times during the week, the Mundt Committee or various combinations of its seven members met in various offices and corners of the Capitol. Purpose: to seek agreement on what to report about the McCarthy-Army fracas. Early in the week, newsmen were "reliably informed" that the Mundt Committee had achieved what had seemed impossible: within a few days it would issue a nearly unanimous report knuckle-rapping all four principals, McCarthy, Cohn, Stevens...
Then this prospect faded. Whatever meeting of minds the Senators may have had became a collision. Four reports by four different Senators began to circulate from office to office. At week's end Michi gan's Charles Potter enplaned for Europe and Chairman Mundt recognized the inevitable. He gave the factions of his hung jury nine days to submit separate verdicts. There would probably be at least five: one by each of the Republicans and one or more by the three Democrats. By the time these reports are in, the curtain will have gone up on Joe McCarthy...
After the Senate voted to send the Flanders resolution to a special bipartisan committee, South Dakota's Karl Mundt spoke for himself and the other Senators who sat through the bitter Army-McCarthy hearings last spring. "They can't take us," said Mundt. "We were drafted for the last...
Handing circumloquacious Committee Counsel Ray Jenkins the job of boiling down the 2,000,000-word transcript of the Army-McCarthy squabble to a terse report was more or less like asking a mighty gale to become a zephyr. Last week Acting Committee Chairman Karl Mundt complained that Jenkins' "bulky" summary would take two days just to read, let alone digest. Down in Knoxville, a trifle hurt by his caucus-room pal's reflection on his distilling prowess, Jenkins replied testily: "It was reduced from a 7,424-page document down to 447 pages... accompanied by a brief...
Interview with Senator Karl E. Mundt...