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"Intemperate & Unworthy." After it had inspected the record, questioned McCarthy and considered the case, the Watkins committee reached a firm conclusion: "The failure of the junior Senator from Wisconsin to accept repeated invitations . . . to appear was obstructive of the processes of the Senate . . . It is the opinion of the Select...
Here, the Watkins committee paused to take particular note of McCarthy's denunciation of New Jersey's Senator Hendrickson, a member of the Privileges and Elections Subcommittee. When he learned that Republican Hendrickson had joined Democrats Thomas Hennings of Missouri and Carl Hayden of Arizona in signing the...
To the Watkins committee this was the worst kind of abuse: "Any Senator has the right to question . . . or condemn an official action of the body of which he is a member, or of the constituent committees which are working arms of the Senate, in proper language. But he has...
"Contumacious" Conduct. In addition to reaching down to an individual member, McCarthy's misconduct toward the Hennings-Hayden-Hendrickson committee extended to the Senate as a whole, the Watkins committee found. Said the report: "The conduct of Senator McCarthy has been contumacious toward the Senate by failing to explain...
With a sharp reminder of the Senate's prerogatives, the Watkins committee disposed of McCarthy's argument that it had no right to investigate the Hennings-Hayden-Hendrickson affair, because the people of Wisconsin had re-elected him in 1952 after it occurred. After pointing out that the...