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Among the witnesses was stocky, crisp-talking Samuel E. Ewing, general attorney for R.C.A.'s manufacturing and services divisions. He told of a meeting early last December with Talbott's partner, Efficiency Expert Paul B. Mulligan, to discuss the possibility of an R.C.A.-Mulligan contract. Said Ewing: "I endeavored to explain to Mr. Mulligan the problems that we saw in the situation ... He said that he was no lawyer and he did not want to get into that with me. He asked if I objected if he called Secretary Talbott. I said I did not object...
After talking to Talbott, Mulligan told Ewing that the Air Force Secretary was upset and disturbed regarding the position taken by R.C.A. Then, Ewing testified, in early January, "I received a telephone call from Washington from a man who identified himself as the general counsel of the Air Force, Mr. John A. Johnson . . . He said that he had understood that R.C.A. was troubled about this proposed contract with Mulligan & Co. and that he was pre pared to write a letter opinion and give it to R.C.A. stating that he saw no legal reason why the contract could not be entered...
...Wanted Action." At that point, said Ewing, "a new voice came on the wire, and the individual speaking identi fied himself as Secretary Talbott. He was talking quite rapidly and, among other things, he told me or listed over the phone the names of a number of other companies that he said were doing work for the Air Force that had contracts with the Mulligan Co. ... He said that 'if all of these other companies could take contracts with Mulligan & Co., why was R.C.A. acting so high and mighty . . .' His tone of voice was forceful, and it seemed...
...efforts to get action, the testimony showed, overbearing Harold Talbott even instructed Counsel Johnson to get a ruling on the propriety of a Mulligan-R.C.A. contract from Attorney General Brownell. But Brownell declined, informing Talbott personally that it was not within the Attorney General's province to take such action. Only then did Secretary Talbott cease in his efforts to round up R.C.A. for Mulligan & Co. Even his close friends granted that all this did not amount to saying, "My goodness, forget...
...airing of Talbott's techniques with R.C.A. sent Capitol Hill Republicans into a swivet. Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender said expansively that Talbott is known "as the most cussingest man in Ohio-but aside from that I do not know of any other impropriety." There were other Republicans who thought that Talbott should be summarily fired; a Senate party caucus broke up in total disagreement about what should be done. Capitol Hill Democrats, meanwhile, were gloating quietly, smiling at Harold Talbott, while skillfully leading him-with substantial help from Talbott-to the chopping block...