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...Goldfine's own lawyers made it clear that he thought Justice had a case. In an extraordinary publication of memos he had written during the hearings, Washington Lawyer Roger Robb revealed that he had advised Goldfine to answer all the committee questions that he possibly could. Goldfine instead took the advice of tough-talking Boston Lawyer Samuel P. Sears, who, said Robb, advised his client to "tell the committee to go to hell." Sears for his part cracked back that Attorney Robb had messed things up by hiring the pressagents who turned the Goldfine appearance into a circus (TIME...
...first page of the statement read last week by Bernard Goldfine to the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight were the encouraging words "YOU WILL BE GREAT!!" Author of the inspirational message: Manhattan Pressagent (and TV Performer) John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary Jr. Coauthor: Washington Lawyer Roger Robb If nothing else, the words reminded Goldfine that he had behind him one of the gaudiest retinues of lawyers and flacks in the whole history of congressional investigations. This is how the retinue operated - and what it did for and to Bernard Goldfine...
...Lazarus, both Goldfine regulars. The information was polished in statement form by 1) Boston Lawyer Samuel Sears, dropped in 1954 as counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating the Army-McCarthy fracas after it was discovered that he had made statements highly favorable to McCarthy, and 2) Washington's Robb. attorney for ousted Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, for ousted Federal Communications Commissioner Richard Mack, and Government attorney in the successful 1954 ouster action against Atomic Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Also helping write the statement was Sol Gelb, onetime assistant to New York District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, and latter...
...Free." It was Lawyer Robb who laid down the major strategic lines: 1) make Goldfine appear as a simple, innocent, underdog type being persecuted by a powerful congressional subcommittee, and 2) permit Goldfine to answer only those questions that related, directly and demonstrably, to his relationships with the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Sherman Adams. On paper, the plans looked good - at least to their authors. In practice, they exploded in some wildly improbable directions...
...publicity business. Tex already had sent one of his vice presidents, William Safire, to Boston for a three-hour interview with Goldfine to get "the feel" of his personality. In Washington, McCrary allowed that as an old Sherman Adams friend he had come at the beck of Lawyer Robb to help Goldfine on a basis of "no expenses, no fee - for free...