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...Fighting Bob." Army Secretary Stevens wrote McCarthy an appeasing letter which confessed the Army's bungling in the Peress case and pledged correction of the procedures which brought it about. Unappeased, McCarthy .called Brigadier (General Ralph Zwicker, commander of Camp Kilmer, N.J., where Peress had been stationed, to the stand. Zwicker, trying to protect his superiors, gave some answers that were less than candid. McCarthy, lashing out, made the outrageous suggestion that Zwicker, an officer with a line combat record, was "not fit to wear that uniform." Zwicker had been insulted, although not publicly pilloried; the hearing was closed...
Secretary Stevens, getting from Zwicker an affidavit of what had happened at the closed hearing, was enraged by Zwicker's story of McCarthy's abuse. Without waiting for a transcript of the testimony. Stevens publicly ordered Zwicker not to testify at the next hearing and announced that he would appear in Zwicker's place. McCarthy, warming up, accepted the challenge. Stevens' statement was so worded as to give many the impression that he would shield all Army officers from questioning by McCarthy. Such a position would have scant legal basis and would be unacceptable...
...Stevens and South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt, a member of the McCarthy committee, were due at Valley Forge, Pa. to receive Freedom Foundation awards. Stevens offered Mundt a ride in his Army plane. In flight. Senator Mundt cautioned Stevens to get and read the transcript of Zwicker's testimony before he went any further in counterattacking McCarthy. The angry Stevens replied that the transcript might have been altered. Mundt assured him that the stenotype notes could be read by an expert...
...that when Stevens entered the room, he was "like a goldfish in a tank of barracuda." Meeting No. 4 featured fried chicken, peas, french fries, head-of-lettuce salad and Joe McCarthy. Also present: Dirksen, and later, Potter. Stevens started with a complaint about McCarthy's abuse of Zwicker. Retorted McCarthy: How could the Army explain the court-martialing of "a poor, brainwashed G.I."* in contrast to the honorable discharge it handed to a "Fifth Amendment Communist"−Peress...
...words forecast the kind of slugging tactics that McCarthy might use on Stevens in an open hearing. Fighting Bob barked back: "I'm not going to have my officers browbeaten." McCarthy snapped back with another attack on Zwicker: "I'm not going to sit there and see a supercilious bastard sit there and smirk...