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Even before Under Secretary of Agriculture Charles Murphy had a chance to speak for himself, six Democratic Senators, like so many John Aldens, leaped up to defend him. Oregon's Wayne Morse went so far as to solicit an opinion from Harry Truman. Said Morse: "Mr. Truman authorized me...
Against charges that he had shown "favoritism" toward Billie Sol, Murphy vowed that he had only met the fellow once in his life. Moreover, the only gift he had ever received from Estes was a couple of crates of cantaloupes. Upon receiving them, Murphy said, he sent Estes a little...
Testifying in the Billie Sol Estes investigation, former Agriculture Department Official Emery ("Red") Jacobs spoke a classic bit of bureaucratese. "The state to which the situation has been definitized," he said, "is uncertain."
"Anybody Else?" To Subcommittee Chairman John McClellan, such testimony seemed persuasive. Some high Agriculture Department official, he said, must have made the decision that helped Estes.
McClellan appeared only slightly less certain after Jacobs testified that Freeman's executive assistant, Thomas R. Hughes, had been in on department discussions of the Estes case as early as January. Hughes denied it at once, but Jacobs had at least raised some question about previous evidence that Freeman...