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...Select Committee of the Senate recommended the censure of Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and thereby erected a new landmark in U.S. government. The report was carefully constructed by six shirtsleeved men in the office of Utah's Senator Arthur Vivian Watkins, a man little known in the past who should be long remembered in the future. Unanimously, firmly, unequivocally. Chairman Watkins and his five committeemen recommended that McCarthy be censured by the Senate on two counts: ¶ He had been contemptuous of, and had obstructed, the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections, which...
...Intemperate & Unworthy." After it had inspected the record, questioned McCarthy and considered the case, the Watkins committee reached a firm conclusion: "The failure of the junior Senator from Wisconsin to accept repeated invitations . . . to appear was obstructive of the processes of the Senate . . . It is the opinion of the Select Committee that when the personal honor and official conduct of a Senator of the United States are in question before a duly constituted committee of the Senate, the Senator involved owes a duty to himself, his state, and to the Senate to appear promptly and cooperate fully...
...third experience with a question of censure the U.S. Senate will have before it the exhaustive report of a Select Committee, clearly and firmly recommending censure. This will be documentation to support the resolution introduced by Vermont Republican Flanders: "Resolved, that the conduct of the Senator from Wisconsin, Mr. McCarthy, is unbecoming a member of the U.S. Senate, is contrary to senatorial traditions and tends to bring the Senate into disrepute, and such conduct is hereby condemned...
...most unequivocal language, the six senators of both parties, who made up the select committee, called McCarthy to account for his conduct in two of the five main groups of charges. He was, they declared, both contemptuous in his refusal to appear before the Hendrickson Committee (which investigated his finances in 1952) and reprehensible in his treatment of General Zwicker. In a manner entirely free from timidity or politicking, they unanimously asked for his censure on both these counts...
INNER-DIRECTION was the answer. The elders implanted early a sense of direction toward lifelong goals. Tradition still helps to guide the inner-directed man by helping him select the goals and the general principles of action by which he is to reach them, rather than by leading him with strict supervision through every step of the way. Where tradition-direction puts him on a well-worn path, inner-direction gives him a gyroscope by which, in all situations, he is expected to find the way toward his goal. Inner-direction appears in Catholic as well as Protestant countries...