And Hayes, very kindly then, would listen to this visit from Major Persons.

Then he would call me and say, Norm, come up to my office.

I have a good deal to tell you.

I would go up.

He'd tell me I've just had a visit from Major Persons,

and he wants me to break up this investigation.

So I then say, well, Wayne, what did you do? What did you say to him? He said, I just told him to

get the hell out. And he did that three times. And I got pretty proud of him in the sense that he was,

as it were, backing me up.

And we finally embarked upon hearings at Hayes request

because he wanted to get them out of the way before he went abroad the summer.

And... But why were the hearings finally terminated?

What happened to the committee?

What happened to the committee or the hearing?

The hearings.

The hearings.

Oh, the hearings were terminated.

Carol Reese was up against such a furor as Hayes through the activity of our own counsel.

Hayes became convinced that he was being double-crossed, and he put on a show in a public hearing room,

Mr. Griffin that was an absolute disgrace.

And he called Carol Reese publicly every name in the book,

and Mr. Reese took this as proof that he couldn't continue the hearings.

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