This week, after a brief vacation at a La Jolla, Calif, resort (where his visit coincided, as it did last year, with that of J. Edgar Hoover), Joe McCarthy returned to Washington to face the Watkins investigation of his past deeds, and to hear the Mundt committee's verdict on his scrap with the Army. The verdict was not clear-cut.
The Mundt committee's seven Senators had agonized day after day over shadings of opinions. In the end they settled on two reports: a majority report, signed by the four Republicans, a minority report, signed by the three Democrats....
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