Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meeting No. 6. Amid reports that Stevens was about to resign, Nixon, Rogers and White House aides went into Meeting No. 6. They drafted a statement which they hoped to get McCarthy and his committee Republicans to issue. Dirksen was summoned to the White House, where he chatted briefly with...
Meeting No. 7. Dirksen picked up the draft statement from its authors, repaired to the Senate cloakroom, where he huddled in Meeting No, 7 with McCarthy, Mundt and Potter. But the draft asked Joe to do three things he would obviously never consent to: 1) admit that he had abused...
McCarthy would agree only to a statement which called Stevens an able and friendly fellow. Since this would prove nothing, the White House said not to bother with further negotiations.
Meeting No. 8. Stevens and his Pentagon advisers met and drafted another statement. Acting Secretary Kyes, a massive man of massive will, took charge. He summoned Stevens to his office and said: "We're going to the White House." Kyes and Stevens crossed the Potomac, joined the still-cerebrating...
Meeting No. 9. In the office of Press Secretary James Hagerty, Stevens read his statement to reporters while Kyes towered over him and Hagerty, a strong anti-McCarthy man, worked hard to keep his choler down. Stevens said that he had been misinterpreted; he wanted to make it clear that...