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...nation's first Secretary of Defense; later, just before Forrestal killed himself, other reporters wrote discreetly of his nervous breakdown, but Pearson published an account of how Forrestal, at the sound of a fire alarm, had dashed out into the street crying, " The Russians are attacking! & amp;quot...
...Alger Hiss's Communist connection but, unable to substantiate it, had turned it over to the Government. And when McCarthy needed evidence to support his wild charges of Reds in Government, Anderson gave him an unsubstantiated tip about one of Truman's speechwriters; a & amp;quot;burn of shame singed through me," he says, when McCarthy denounced the man in the Senate. In time, McCarthy turned on Pearson, who had never been a big fan of the Senator's anyway. Calling Pearson an agent of Moscow, McCarthy demanded a "patriotic boycott" of Adam hats for sponsoring Pearson...
...telephoned instructions from the same stranger, McCord met Caulfield quot;at the second overlookquot; on the George Washington Memorial Parkway along the Potomac. They talked in Caulfield's car. This was after McCord's Watergate trial had got under way. Caulfield said he had an offer to grant Executive clemency to McCord if he would change his plea to guilty and remain silent. The offer, said Caulfield, was quot;from the very highest levels of the White House.quot; He added that Nixon had been told of Caulfield's impending meeting with McCord and would be immediately informed...
...again on the Potomac overlook, and Caulfield warned: quot;The President's ability to govern is at stake. Another Teapot Dome scandal is possible, and the Government may fall. Everybody else is on track but you. You are not following the game plan. You seem to be pursuing your own course of action. Do not talk if called before the grand jury; keep silent and do the same if called before a congressional committee.quot; But McCord reiterated that he would not make any deal...
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