"Yesterday
was a profitable one from the standpoint of discovering how our government
operates. A notice in the Post of
a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting at 10:00 A.M. aroused our curiosity....
[N]one could compared with committee chairman, Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada.
The typical Western senator, McCarran had heavy jowls, a shaggy mane of white
hair, wrinkles creased in the sagging fat of his face, and bifocal
glasses. Slouched in his heavily padded
chair at the head of the committee table, he looked like an old mother hen, his
face that is. His drooping eyelids
weren't a very accurate indication of the state of his mind. Time and again he put the more loquacious
witnesses on the spot with his carefully-framed questions."
--
Letter from my father, Washington, D.C.,
to his family, Bloomington, Kans., Sunday, April 14, 1946.
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