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Free [download] [epub]^^ The Enemy Within Robert F. Kennedy (Ebook pdf)Free [download][epub]^^ The EnemyWithin Robert F.Kennedy (Ebook pdf)DescriptionWritten right on the firing line in one of the hottest sectors of the fight for law and order, this bookis a no-holds-barred report on the work of the McClellan Committee. Covering also the methodsevolved by Committee investigators to dig out the facts; the threats, dodges and pressures used tobalk them; the strains within the Committee itself, and within the staff, and the significant factors ofpress and public opinion, it is illuminated by firsthand knowledge and charged with the force ofabsolute honesty and the fire of personal conviction. Every member of the McC1ellan Committeeknew he might be digging his political grave, but they all went ahead and uncovered a shockingstory of venality, greed, corruption and mania for power in the ranks of both labor andmanagement. Over the course of three years, hearing fifteen hundred witnesses and takingfourteen million words of testimony, the Committee proved that in a frightening number of caseslabor leaders. management, the underworld and public officials, sometimes in combination,sometimes separately, had worked to cheat the rank-and-flle union members. Focusing on someof the highlights of the investigation, Kennedy tells, for example: how an anonymous telephone callsparked a major investigation and led to the exposure of a huge swindle; how a tip from the "friendof a friend" led to the downfall of Dave Beck; why Roy Underwood shot himself; how "democracy"actually operates in Hoffa's captive unions and what happens to the men who dare to stand up tohim; how a reluctant witness was persuaded to testify; how two earlier Congressional committeesdropped their investigations of the Teamsters Union; how Hoffa was tried on charges of attemptingto plant a spy in the McClellan Committee: why an investigator crawled under a bed and anotherwore a postman's uniform; how unions are bought and sold - and sometimes stolen; howunderworld racketeers infiltrate a union; how, to take the Fifth Amendment by proxy; why honestunion leader refused to testify; what mistake the author made with a witness once, but neveragain; what lay behind the “get Reuther” investigation - and why it fizzled. Kennedy discusses too,with illustrative and fascinating anecdotes, such basic matters as how an investigating committeegoes about getting its facts: how a case is prepared for hearing; why it is difficult to assemble agood investigative staff on Capitol Hill; the procedures that in his opinion an investigatingcommittee should follow and what happens when it doesn't; whether a witness should be permittedto hide behind the Fifth Amendment; and how far - and when it is permitted to dig into a man'sprivate life. Writing crisply, with indignation but also with humor, Kennedy has told a crackling storyof the committees work and of the revelations that not only toppled some important union leaders
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