Word: wiley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chairman Russell ruled that Bradley, as a confidential adviser, did not have to reveal confidential conversations with the President. Wiley protested. The committee broke into angry wrangling. Democrats pointed out that precedents running back to George Washington had protected the right of Presidents to privacy in their communications with confidential advisers. As a matter of most recent precedent, when General MacArthur declined to reveal his private conversations with President Truman at Wake Island, no one had questioned his refusal. Texas' Tom Connally rumbled: "How could a President do anything...
Sprung Trap. Some of Wiley's fellow Republicans privately accused him of blundering; he had, they told favored newsmen, triggered a trap which they had set for Secretary of State Dean Acheson. The plan had been to make unpopular Dean Acheson the chief G.O.P. target, ask him pointed questions about his discussions with the President, then try to cite him for contempt if he refused to answer. Even if they couldn't make the charge stick, Republicans hoped to keep the case in the courts and before the public until...
...Wiley had spoiled the strategy by trying it on Omar Bradley, a man as widely respected as Acheson is disliked. Even among his Republican colleagues, Wiley got only partial support...
When the vote was taken, the committee backed Russell's ruling 18-8. The Republicans themselves split 6-6. Unabashed, Wiley cried: "It is the committee majority which has been partisan in its frantic desire to cover up and whitewash." While his colleagues kept a pained silence, Wiley declared that the committee should subpoena Harry Truman himself. This was too much for Chief Republican Strategist Robert A. Taft, who disowned it as something that "constitutionally couldn't be done...
Wisconsin's Wiley put the inevitable question: "How would you visualize decisive results will be achieved under the present program in Korea...