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Roy Marcus Cohn and Everett McKinley Dirksen

Roy Marcus Cohn and Everett McKinley Dirksen
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Artist
George Tames, 1919 - 1994
Sitter
Roy Marcus Cohn, 20 Feb 1927 - Aug 1986
Everett McKinley Dirksen, 4 Jan 1896 - 7 Sep 1969
Date
1954
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 26.7 × 38.5 cm (10 1/2 × 15 3/16")
Sheet: 39.9 × 49.8 cm (15 11/16 × 19 5/8")
Topic
Home Furnishings\Furniture\Table
Interior\Courtroom
Equipment\Smoking Implements\Cigarette
Equipment\Camera
Everett McKinley Dirksen: Male
Everett McKinley Dirksen: Law and Crime\Lawyer
Everett McKinley Dirksen: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer
Everett McKinley Dirksen: Politics and Government\US Senator\Minority Leader
Everett McKinley Dirksen: Politics and Government\US Senator\Illinois
Everett McKinley Dirksen: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Illinois
Roy Marcus Cohn: Male
Roy Marcus Cohn: Law and Crime\Lawyer
Roy Marcus Cohn: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Professor\University
Roy Marcus Cohn: Politics and Government\Powerbroker
Portrait
Place
United States\District of Columbia\Washington
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Frances O. Tames
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Copyright
© George Tames/The New York Times/Redux
Object number
NPG.94.149
Exhibition Label
Roy Cohn, chief counsel for the Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, and subcommittee member Senator Everett Dirksen were both allies of Senator McCarthy. The circumstances surrounding the confrontation captured in this photograph are unclear, but emotions often reached a fevered pitch during the high-stakes proceedings of the Army-McCarthy hearings—even among those on the same side.
After the hearings ended on June 17, 1954, and McCarthy was discredited, Dirksen tried to forge a compromise to prevent his colleague’s censure by the Senate. Those efforts failed and on December 1, 1954, the Senate voted 67 to 22 to censure the senator. The following year, Dirksen broke permanently with McCarthy over his claim that the Eisenhower Administration was soft on Communism.
Roy Cohn, abogado principal del Subcomité Permanente de Investigaciones, y el senador Everett Dirksen, miembro del subcomité, eran aliados del senador McCarthy. Las circunstancias de la confrontación que capta esta fotografía no están claras, pero los ánimos se caldearon muchas veces durante las trascendentales audiencias Ejército-McCarthy, incluso entre un mismo bando.
Al terminar las audiencias el 17 de junio de 1954 con la desacreditación de McCarthy, Dirksen trató de forjar un acuerdo para evitar que el Senado emitiera una censura contra su colega. No obstante, el 1 de diciembre de 1954 el Senado votó 67 a 22 para censurar al senador. Al año siguiente, Dirksen rompió para siempre con McCarthy por este acusar al gobierno de Eisenhower de ser blando con el comunismo.
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Exhibition
20th Century Americans: 1930-1960
On View
NPG, South Gallery 321