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...Senate committees do hire and fire employees. But it is also understood that they get the consent of other members. Aware of this, Fighting Joe backpedaled a step or two: he agreed to drop Matthews, in return for the promise of Michigan's Republican Senator Charles E. Potter to go along with McCarthy's claim to sole control over committee employees. That got all three Republicans back on McCarthy's side again...
...unwarranted attack." Matthews said that he had written it several months ago, and would not have done so if he had known he would be appointed by the committee. McCarthy said that the article was "hardly an attack upon the Protestant clergymen." Michigan's Republican Senator Charles E. Potter (whose vote would give anti-Matthews members of the seven-man committee a majority) announced that it was his "present" opinion that Matthews should be fired...
...Garrison, Ike was taken on a tour of the dam site and shown a scale model of the project. One of his Army Engineers guides, General William Potter, remarked that perhaps such models should be sent around the country so the people could see what they were getting for their money. Half grinning, the President snorted: "Did you ever stop to think that if they find out, they may stop you some...
...marine, like an old soldier, always finds something to gripe about. So Lieut. Colonel James Potter Rathbun promptly found something wrong with Washington, D.C. when he was ordered there for duty at the Marine Corps Institute. His gripe was novel, even for a marine. The fishing was terrible...
RICHARD J. POTTER...