Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevens: I think it would be a fair assumption that I did.
Stevens: I'm responsible.
McCarthy: Did you order these smear charges prepared, strike the word smear? Secretary Stevens laughed.
McCarthy asked again and again if Stevens had received orders or advice from outside the Pentagon. Stevens answered again and again that he. Stevens, was responsible. Said he: "Certainly there was consultation and advice, but the responsibility is mine."
But this did not satisfy McCarthy, who had charged Stevens with "blackmail," but now seemed to wish that the accused would assert his innocence by passing the buck up the chain of command.