school and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us. when i decided to work for this committee, i asked jim st. clair, who sits on my right, to be my first assistant. i said to jim, "pick somebody in the firm to work under you that you would like." he chose fred fisher, and they came down on an afternoon plane. that night, when we had taken a little stab at trying to see what the case is about, fred fisher and jim st. clair and i went to dinner together. i then said to these two young men, "boys, i don't know anything about you, except i've always liked you, but if there's anything funny in the life of either one of you that would hurt anybody in this case, you speak up quick."
and fred fisher said, "mr. welch, when i was in the law school, and for a period of months after, i belonged to the lawyers' guild," as you have suggested, senator. he went on to say, "i am secretary of the young republican's league in newton with the son of [the] massachusetts governor, and i have the respect and admiration of my community, and i'm sure i have the respect and admiration of the twenty-five lawyers or so in hale & dorr." and i said, "fred, i just don't think i'm going to ask you to work on the case. if i do, one of these days that will come out, and go over national television, and it will just hurt like the dickens." and so, senator, i asked him to go back to boston. little did i dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. it is, i regret to say, equally true that i fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. if it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty, i would do so. i like to think i'm a
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