ON a sweltering day in Washington last summer Reporter Clark Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register strolled into the offices of the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to see the chief counsel, Robert Francis Kennedy. Things were kind of quiet around town, said Mollenhoff: there must be something worth investigating. Asked Kennedy: "Have you any ideas?" Mollenhoff, who had been writing stories about corruption and abuses in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters for six years, indeed had an idea: the Teamsters. He showed Kennedy some of his clippings, and emphasized the national significance of what newsmen had been...
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