<Dd> McCarthy . As I said, I think you may be an authority on what a pixie is . </Dd> <P> At least a portion of the Army's allegations were correct . Roy Cohn did take steps to request preferential treatment for Schine, going so far on at least one occasion to sign McCarthy's name without his knowledge on a request for Schine to have access to the Senators' Baths; a pool and steam room reserved exclusively for senators . </P> <P> The exact relationship between Cohn, McCarthy and Schine remains unknown . Cohn and Schine were certainly close, and rather than work out of the Senate offices, the two rented nearby office space and shared bills . McCarthy commented that Cohn was unreasonable in matters dealing with Schine . It is unclear if Schine ever had a romantic or sexual relationship with Cohn, who was a closeted homosexual . (Three years after the hearings, Schine married and eventually had six children .) Some have also suggested that McCarthy may have been homosexual, and even possibly involved with Schine or Cohn . </P> <P> In what played out to be the most dramatic exchange of the hearings, McCarthy responded to aggressive questioning from Army counsel Joseph Welch . On June 9, 1954, day 30 of the hearings, Welch challenged Cohn to give McCarthy's list of 130 subversives in defense plants to the office of the FBI and the Department of Defense "before the sun goes down". In response to Welch's challenge, McCarthy suggested that Welch should check on Fred Fisher, a young lawyer in Welch's own Boston law firm whom Welch had planned to have on his staff for the hearings . McCarthy then mentioned that Fisher had once belonged to the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), a group which Attorney General Brownell had called "the legal bulwark of the Communist Party". </P>

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