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...week long, Republican Senate leaders worked behind Arthur Watkins' back toward a "compromise" agreement on McCarthy's censure. They made a series of telephone calls to Joe, trying to get him to 1) apologize to New Jersey's G.O.P. Senator Robert Hendrickson for the famed "without brains or guts" remark, and 2) stay quiet and keep out of trouble for awhile. The matter of apology became moot when Hendrickson said on the Senate floor that no apology would change his mind about Joe; that it was not the affront to him but the affront to the Senate...
Chamber Music. Next morning, Arthur Watkins took the floor to deliver a dry, seven-page explanation of his committee's findings, including the censure recommendation (one of two) for McCarthy's having called New Jersey's Republican Senator Robert Hendrickson a "living miracle without brains or guts." When McCarthy heard the quote, he grinned, went over to slap Hendrickson on the back, and whispered: "Bob, you've got both brains and guts, and I'll put it in writing." But McCarthy would make no public apology...
...vigorously denying that it was in any way responsible for juvenile delinquency. During two days of hearings in Washington before the Senate Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee, children's TV programs were roundly damned and defended. Richard Clendenen, executive director of the committee, told New Jersey's Senator Robert Hendrickson and a jampacked hearing room that grammar-school children spend from 22 to 27 hours a week looking at TV. Then excerpts from TV films shown in an average Washington week were thrown on the screen. Some highlights in the nontelevised proceedings...
...investigators as "Captain") insisted that his program "was meticulous to the point of not even using the word 'kill.' " His Video Rangers use "stun guns" that are not even painful, and captured villains are brainwashed at a "rehabilitation center" rather than dispatched to graveyards. Questioned by Senator Hendrickson about the good taste of tromping on an enemy's hands, Captain Video explained that it would only be done in self-defense to disarm...
...special election to fill Case's seat, the Sixth Congressional District-which Case had carried by a record margin-went Democratic for the first time since it was remapped in 1932. Before long, G.O.P. state leaders, who had decided that U.S. Senator Robert Hendrickson could not be reelected, were urging Vote-Getter Case to move back into politics. At their urging, Case resigned the $40,000-a-year Ford job last March to make the race...