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Harold Talbott, Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, wiped his lips on a fresh white handkerchief, picked up a typewritten statement, and began to read. Arkansas' Democratic Senator John McClellan, chairman of the Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, leaned forward in his chair, draping himself over his desk. Newsmen tensed, ready to spring for the nearest telephones. By that moment last week it was clear that Talbott had misused his position as Secretary of the Air Force to solicit business for Paul B. Mulligan & Co., the Manhattan clerical-efficiency firm in which he was a partner. Almost everyone in the subcommittee...
...stick and waved his grey Homburg at the welcoming crowd. With the caution of great age, he stepped to the ground to be greeted by Vice President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Then he shuffled to a battery of microphones and, as he read from typewritten notes, the Churchillian tones sounded strong and clear...
Penciled out of the typewritten McCarthy text was another line: "Far too much wind has been blowing from high places in defense of this Fifth Amendment Communist Army officer." And some two hours after reading his statement for television, McCarthy sent another deletion around to newsmen. The word "now," he said, should be omitted from the sentence: "Apparently the President and I now agree on the necessity of getting rid of the Communists." It was just arrogant Joe's way of stressing the innuendo-and of sinking the blade a little deeper in the area between the shoulder blades...
...Leonard E. Mins thoughtfully provided newsmen with a typewritten translation of Latin quotations which he read to McCarthy from a black, loose-leaf notebook. Mins, described by McCarthy as a veteran Communist writer who had access to classified radar information in 1943, was asked if he had ever engaged in espionage for Russia. He answered: "Nemini delatorum fides abrogata."* Then he added wryly: "My answer also includes a citation from the Fifth Amendment." McCarthy, who knows a good performer when he sees one, was almost tolerant of Mins...
Lynch, reluctantly took the scroll to the office of College Dormitories where an administrative decision was quickly handed down: the scroll would be sent to the archives and replaced with a typewritten copy...