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z SA a ued, Sines. LF le A BOT ie yc, uo 11 Med gat a "Truntan Denounces Senator McCarthy as ' Character Assassin By the Associated Press President ‘Truman today ¢e-. nounced Senator McCarthy. Re! publican, of Wisconsin as patho- Jogical and asa character assassin The President let go at the Wisconsin Senator at a news conference in response {fo ques- tions about Senator McCarthy's Benate speech Tuesday on Philico Nash, a special White House assistant, ma Senator McCarthy @m. Mr ' Nash, a special assistant con- | cerned wih minority problems had close associations with Com-/ yaunists in the 19405, Mr. Nasl| denied it. | Snapping back, the President referred to the Wisconsin Senator as the pathological Mr. MeCarthy.: Same Kind of Altack. He said the attack on Mr. Nash was the same Kind of attack Ben- O-1F Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin__ Nichols_ Rosep____ Tracy _ Harbo_ Alde ee Laughlin Mohr Tele. R- Neane__ Gandy _ ator McCarthy has made on al / af As 7 po]. | A Government workers he does not like. A reporter recalled Senator Mc-: Carthy had said FBI reports linked Mr. Nash with Communist associ- ates and asked the President if the FBI did have such reports. Mr. Truman responded with a question: Does he (McCarthy) | ever tell the truth? And he added | bnat if McCarthy does, he (the; President) does not know it. ‘Mr, Truman went an to say nat Senator McCarthy docs not need! information to be a character as-| sassin—thal's his business. And, with an edge in his voier. the President said he himself was uf not talking with immunity. ~ | \ Senator Has Immunity. Senator McCarthy, as a Sen-! \ ator, is immune irom lawsuits. / growing out of his remarks on the Genate floor. The President y speaking on such an occasion as a news conference, does not have such specifically defined immu- nity. The President would not five permission for reporters to put in quotation marks his words character assassin or the waid 4 pathological. vy News conference rules forbid ats direct quotation of the President 4 without his permission. ‘ His comment today was the . most caustic he has directed at . Y the Wisconsin Senator by name ( Wy although he has denounced Sen. Meferthy by impligstion many t Se CORDED tip 7 1982 ro, 2 Times-He Wash, Pc Yash. Ne Wash. § N.Y. Mi th fe Date: .