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40.McCarthy-Welch Exchange: "Have You No Sense of Decency"

McCarthy: (Mr. Chairman) ...in view of Mr. Welch's request that the
information be given once we know of anyone who might be performing any
work for the Communist Party, I think we should tell him that he has in
his law firm a young man named Fisher whom he recommended, incidentally,
to do the work on this Committee, who has been, for a number of years, a
member of an organization which is named, oh, years and years ago, as the
legal bulwark of the Communist Party, an organization which always springs
to the defense of anyone who dares to expose Communists.

Knowing that, Mr. Welch, I just felt that I had a duty to respond to your
urgent request that "before sundown," when we know of anyone serving the
Communist cause we let the agency know.? Now, we're now letting you know
that your man did belong to this organization for either three or four
years, belonged to it long after he was out of law school.? And I have
hesitated bringing that up, but I have been rather bored with your phony
requests to Mr. Cohn here, that he, personally, get every Communist out of
Government before sundown. Whether you knew that he was a member of that
Communist organization or not, I don't know.? I assume you did not, Mr.
Welch, because I get the impression that while you are quite an actor, you
play for a laugh, I don't think you have any conception of the danger of
the Communist Party. I don't think you, yourself, would ever knowingly aid
the Communist cause.? I think you're unknowingly aiding it when you try to
burlesque this hearing in which we're attempting to bring out the facts.
Welch: Mr. Chairman....
Mundt: The Chair may say that he has no recognition or no memory of Mr.
Welch recommending either Mr. Fisher or anybody else as counsel for this
Committee.
McCarthy: I refer to the record, Mr. Chairman...to the news story on that.

Welch: Mr. Chairman.? Under these circumstances, I must myself have
something approaching a personal privilege.
Mundt: You may have, sir --
Welch: Senator McCarthy, I did not know, Senator -- Senator, sometimes you
say may I have your attention --
McCarthy: I'm listening....
Welch: May I have your attention?
McCarthy: I can listen with one ear and talk with --.
Welch:? No, this time, sir, I want you to listen with both.? Senator
McCarthy, I think until this moment --
McCarthy: -- Good.? Just a minute.? Jim, Jim, will you get the news story
to the effect that this man belongs to the -- to this Communist front
organization....
Welch: I will tell you that he belonged to it.
McCarthy: Jim, will you get the citation, one of the citations showing
that this was the legal arm of the Communist Party, and the length of time
that he belonged, and the fact that he was recommended by Mr. Welch. I
think that should be in the record....
Welch: Senator, you won't need anything in the record when I finish
telling you this.?Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really
gauged your cruelty, or your recklessness. Fred Fisher is a young man who
went to the Harvard Law School and came into my firm and is starting what
looks to be a brilliant career with us. When I decided to work for this
Committee, I asked Jim St. Clair, who sits on my right, to be my first
assistant.? I said to Jim, "Pick somebody in the firm to work under you
that you would like." He chose Fred Fisher, and they came down on an
afternoon plane. That night, when we had taken a little stab at trying to
see what the case is about, Fred Fisher and Jim St. Clair and I went to
dinner together.? I then said to these two young men, "Boys, I don't know
anything about you, except I've always liked you, but if there's anything
funny in the life of either one of you that would hurt anybody in this
case, you speak up quick."
And Fred Fisher said, "Mr. Welch, when I was in the law school, and for a
period of months after, I belonged to the Lawyers' Guild," as you have
suggested, Senator. He went on to say, "I am Secretary of the Young
Republican's League in Newton with the son of [the] Massachusetts
governor, and I have the respect and admiration of my community, and I'm
sure I have the respect and admiration of the twenty-five lawyers or so in
Hale & Dorr." And I said, "Fred, I just don't think I'm going to ask you
to work on the case.? If I do, one of these days that will come out, and
go over national television, and it will just hurt like the dickens." And
so, Senator, I asked him to go back to Boston. Little did I dream you
could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. It is, I
regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar
needlessly inflicted by you.? If it were in my power to forgive you for
your reckless cruelty, I would do so. I like to think I'm a gentle man,
but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me.
McCarthy:? Mr. Chairman, may I say that Mr. Welch talks about this being
cruel and reckless.? He was just baiting.? He has been baiting Mr. Cohn
here for hours, requesting that Mr. Cohn before sundown get out of any
department of the government anyone who is serving the Communist cause.
Now, I just give this man's record and I want to say, Mr. Welch, that it
had been labeled long before he became a member, as early as 1944 --
Welch:?Senator, may we not drop this?? We know he belonged to the Lawyers'
Guild.?
McCarthy: Let me finish....
Welch: And Mr. Cohn nods his head at me.? I did you, I think, no personal
injury, Mr. Cohn?
Cohn: No, sir.
Welch:? I meant to do you no personal injury.
Cohn: No, sir.
Welch: And if I did, I beg your pardon.? Let us not assassinate this lad
further, Senator.
McCarthy: Let's, let's --
Welch: You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long
last?? Have you left no sense of decency?
McCarthy: I know this hurts you, Mr. Welch.
Welch: I'll say it hurts!
McCarthy: Mr. Chairman, as point of personal privilege, I'd like to finish
this.
Welch: Senator, I think it hurts you, too, sir.
McCarthy:? I'd like to finish this.?I know Mr. Cohn would rather not have
me go into this. I intend to, however, and Mr. Welch talks about any
"sense of decency." I have heard you and everyone else talk so much about
laying the truth upon the table.?But when I heard the completely phony Mr.
Welch, I've been listening now for a long time, he's saying, now "before
sundown" you must get these people "out of government." So I just want you
to have it very clear, very clear that you were not so serious about that
when you tried to recommend this man for this Committee.
Welch: Mr. McCarthy, I will not discuss this further with you.?You have
sat within six feet of me and could ask -- could have asked me about Fred
Fisher.? You have seen fit to bring it out, and if there is a God in
heaven, it will do neither you nor your cause any good.? I will not
discuss it further.? I will not ask, Mr. Cohn,?any more witnesses. You,
Mr. Chairman, may, if you will, call the next witness.

 

 


 


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