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Staff Notes on Senator Joseph McCarthy
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Staff Notes on Senator Joseph McCarthy
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White House Office, Office of the Staff Secretary: Records of Paul T. Carroll, Andrew J. Goodpaster, L. Arthur Minnich, and Christopher H. Russell
L. Arthur Minnich's Files
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CONFIDENTIAL
DuightDi
THE Light
7/29/53
McCARTHY, Sen. Joseph
In connection with the resignation of Mr. J. B. Matthews from Senator
McCarthy's subcommittee, the press gave the President much credit for
forcing the situation by his telegram of July 9, 1953, to the National
Conference of Christians and Jews.
There was some good fortune for the White House in the sequence of
events, for there was a large probability that Matthews' resignation
would have occurred as the result of a protest vote by the majority
of McCarthy's committee. The President's statement, however, was com-
pleted and released prior to any break on the Hill, thus allowing some
credit to accrue to the President.
The text of the President's message to the clergymen was drafted at a
lengthy session in which Governor Adams, General Persons, Mr. Hagerty,
and Mr. Hughes participated. There was full agreement that the President
should make a statement but some discussion as to the exact wording.
The President, when the draft was presented to him, had no reservations
about making it.
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Minnich
DETERMINED TO BE AN
ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING
E.O. 12065, Section 1
CONFIDENTIAL
By Rs NLE, Date 7/13/79