Primarily Political XXXVI

Senate Hearings: There was a time when the questioning of witnesses was handled almost exclusively by the Committee Counsel:
- Rudolf Halley was counsel to the Kefauver Committee in 1951 investigating organized crime and he handled most of the questioning, although Senators were free to speak as did Sen. Tobey when he challenged a witness to "be ye clean!"
-In 1952 Robert F. Kennedy was counsel to the McClellan Committee investigating corruption and he went after Jimmy Hoffa with a vengeance.  Of course this was in the early days of having cameras in the hearing room. In the current atmosphere it might be well for the eleven "R"men on the Judicial Committee to appoint a neutral questioner to avoid embarrassment. They are in a NO WIN situation.
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