Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meeting No. 4. Bob Stevens, a man-of-good-will trained in a family textile business, walked with Karl Mundt into the Capitol's room P-54. Later, a Washington quipster observed that when Stevens entered the room, he was "like a goldfish in a tank of barracuda." Meeting...
The words forecast the kind of slugging tactics that McCarthy might use on Stevens in an open hearing. Fighting Bob barked back: "I'm not going to have my officers browbeaten." McCarthy snapped back with another attack on Zwicker: "I'm not going to sit there and see...
Conciliator Mundt broke in: "Joe, you're not dealing with Dean Acheson any longer. Let's look to the future." This remark was the turning point of Meeting No. 4; it led to Stevens' next big mistake. The discussion shifted to a friendly, businesslike tone, which lasted...
2) Stevens will order completion of the Army's investigation of the Peress case; make "everyone involved" available as witnesses before McCarthy's committee.
The defeat's full impact landed on the world's doorstep with the morning newspapers. Editorial writers, who had been championing Stevens all week, denounced him. Cried the Richmond News Leader: "Mr. Stevens has . . . contributed to the delusion that McCarthy bestrides this nation like some Colossus, while petty...