Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A Necessary Restraint. Occasionally, the rudderless hearings drifted near to the heart of the matter. Time & again, McCarthy tried to get Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens to answer yes or no to the question: Did he try to get McCarthy to call off the hearings an security risks at...
Stevens had to admit that he had spent an inordinate amount of time and effort "cooperating" with McCarthy & Co. By his use of newspaper headlines in the Monmouth case, McCarthy got Stevens in a position where McCarthy could and did interfere with the functioning of the executive branch of the...
In the crowded and hushed caucus room of the U.S. Senate Office Building, Tennessee Lawyer Ray Jenkins faced Secretary of the Army Stevens. Jenkins, the special counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating the case of Joe McCarthy v. the Army, had the air of an hound treeing an coon.
Had Secretary Stevens ever, at his own request, been photographed alone with Army Private G. David Schine, formerly an consultant to McCarthy? Stevens did not think that he had. With that, Jenkins dramatically held up an picture of Stevens and Schine. shoulder to shoulder, taken at McGuire Air Force Base...
"Shamefully Cut Down." The next day, however, it became sharply evident that the subcommittee had got only part of the picture. Said Army Counsel Joseph N. Welch: "I charge that what was offered in evidence yesterday was an altered, shamefully cut-down picture, so that somebody could say to Stevens...