Word: schine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reference to the private is to G. David Schine '49, the former unpaid consultant to the McCarthy committee and the object of the present controversy...
...Jenkins then tried to show that Stevens had tried to use Schine to halt the McCarthy investigation. He recalled that Stevens had visited Schine's apartment in New York and later had been the guest of Schine's parents at dinner. He produced a photograph of the Army Secretary posing with Schine, by then in Army uniform. Sneered Jenkins: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it a fact that you were being especially nice and considerate and tender of this boy ... in order to dissuade the Senator from continuing his investigation of one of your departments...
...have seemed the briefest of respites-and then he returned to face more of Jenkins' hammering questions. Said the veteran Tennessee trial lawyer: "One other serious charge has been made against you, and that is, from time to time you offered up a bigger bait even than David Schine to this committee to let you alone, to wit, the Air Force or the Navy, it being alleged that you tried to divert this committee from the Army to the Air Force or the Navy. What do you say about that charge...
Then committee members began to question Stevens. Chairman Mundt directed his questions to the charges made against McCarthy's staff director, Francis Carr, who had also been accused by the Army of intervening on Schine's behalf. In reply to Mundt, Stevens said Carr had not sought preferential treatment for Schine to nearly the extent that Roy Cohn had. Stevens concluded: "I think Mr. Carr might have been a little more active in trying to stop some of the conversations that went on, and he did not do that...
Many TV viewers felt like the Detroit housewife who told a telephone canvasser: "I was just saying to myself, 'Who is this Schine guy?'"; but the drama of men struggling through the mazes of facts to get at truth was still greatly exciting. Said a Denver TV executive, after a survey of bars and appliance stores: "It's being regarded as a sporting event. 'Who's winning it?'-that's what people...