- Senator Jenkins (leading the hearing) addresses John G. Adams, Counselor for the Army, getting the specifics about Roy Cohn's demands for preferential treatment for Schine.
- Jenkins really wants to know if Cohn cursed during their discussions.
- Adams alleges that Cohn was verbally abusive, that it was like nothing he'd ever experienced before in his life. There were periods of normal convo followed by ordering ice cream, but then Roy would go off again. He had to miss two trains because Cohn would not shut up.
- (You just have to love the detail about the ice cream.)
- Just to gauge his reaction, Adams asked Cohn what would happen if Schine were sent overseas.
- Adams testified that Cohn said it would be all over for Secretary Stevens.
- Adams couldn't believe he said that, so he asked again, and Cohn threatened to "wreck the Army."
- Cohn insinuated that they had a congressional committee that would go after big shots in the Army. They could instigate a never-ending investigation because they had a lot of dirt on the Army.