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Hoey Sex Per. One
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
July 7, 1950
S.I So
MEMORANDUM FOR STEPHEN J. SPINGARN:
Dear Steve:
I have been thinking over your memorandum of June 29th and
have come to the conclusion that the opening testimony ought to be
public, if possible.
There has been too much tendency to distort the facts.
Closed sessions on the policy part of the hearings would, I think,
tend to accentuate this distortion.
While there is some risk of unfavorable publicity being
directed toward irrelevant parts of the problem, I think, nevertheless,
that it would have a healthy effect to bring out into the open some
clear statements on the psychiatric and security aspects of
homosexuality.
After the initial hearings, I think that all the sessions
ought to be executive, in order to protect the reputations of
individual persons, whose names may be brought up in completely
innocent context, and yet be wrongly identified through association.
PHILLEO NASH
This is only white House staff new
in yours I public hearings (P. Ford of Justice,
however, has expressed The same new). Opposed are
Charles murpy, Don Dawsma Matt Camelly, Joe Feeney,
Dave Bell ,Dair Lland, sick neusTast, Frank Parks,
Here malety, George Elsey; also Sugen general School
to advan Fisher of State.
S.J.S.
7/8/50
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