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...This silly tempest in a teapot arose because we dared to bring to light the cold, unpleasant facts about a Fifth Amendment Communist officer ... It now appears that for some reason he was a sacred cow of certain Army brass." In clear reference to General Zwicker, McCarthy said: "If a stupid, arrogant or witless man in a position of power appears before our committee and is found aiding the Communist Party, he will be exposed...
...determined crusading makes it a more logical candidate for the prizes than other papers (Publisher Pulitzer stays out of the discussion when the P-D is a candidate). P-D men have won prizes for everything from forcing a corrupt federal judge to resign and the exposure of the Teapot Dome scandals by the late Paul Y. Anderson to a series on the Depression '30s by the late Charles G. Ross, who became President Truman's press secretary after leaving the PD. The paper itself has won five "meritorious public service" Pulitzers: for exposing wholesale padding of vote...
...thanks and admiration for your objective discussion of the White Case. Your brief evaluation in a historical light had the breadth and soundness of political science, very unlike ordinary political argument . . . When hooting crowds shame the Republicans for Teapot and denounce the Democrats for Hiss and White, the true significance of all the sound and fury is that America is simply changing its mind and its attitude and finding scapegoats in the process in the usual manner of democracies . . . JOHN WISE
...politics is always conducted by using the past record to disclose and correct past mistakes. The Teapot Dome scandal lived for years as an example of Republican laxity toward corruption; it died only when the Republican leaders convinced the country that their attitude had changed. Through the 1930s, the U.S. watched a grim pageant of congressional hearings which dug into banking and brokerage practices that had contributed to the excesses of the boom years...
These investigations were partisan in nature, but they also produced some constructive results, e.g., the act setting up the Securities and Exchange Commission; As a result of both the Teapot Dome investigations of the 1920s and the money investigations of the 1930s, shining reputations were dulled and some leading citizens went to prison. It was a painful and unpleasant process, and men of good will in both parties often wished that the end would come...