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650 Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy
Senator Lucas: Wasn’t he [Greaves] “the Republican National
Committee research man in the campaign of 1944”?
Mr. Greaves: I was with the Republican National Committee
up until the end of last year [1944].
Senator Lucas: Th is is a nonpartisan hearing.
Chairman Barkley: In view of that information, would it be
out of place to inquire who has compensated Mr. Greaves for
the services he has rendered to Senator Brewster or Senator
Ferguson?
Ferguson: He is not rendering any services for me.
Lucas: Not much!
Barkley: He has been sitting by the Senator from Michigan
[Ferguson] during these whole hearings and apparently
prompting the Senator in the interrogatories he has addressed
to the witnesses. Maybe that is not a service to the Senator
from Michigan and the Senator will have to be the judge of
that, but it has been a matter of common observation that that
has transpired ever since we began the hearing.
Barkley said he did not object personally; he didn’t care “how
many assistants any member of this committee may have, or
desire, or need.” But he thought it was
not out of place that the committee know who it is who is
compensating anybody who is assisting any Senator. . . [and
that] the public would be interested in knowing whether there
is any partisan compensation being paid to anybody who is
employed by a member of this committee.
Ferguson said that Barkley would have to talk with Brewster
about that. 118
118 Ibid., p. 1373 (December 11).