THIS WAS BURTON K. WHEELER’S second DOJ scalp: William Patrick Maloney back in 1943, before he could bring his sedition indictments to trial; and now Maloney’s successor, O. John Rogge, before he could release his DOJ report on sedition to the public. Attorney General Francis Biddle acceded to Wheeler’s demands the first time. Now it was Attorney General Tom Clark, as well as President Truman. Whatever else there is to say about Montana’s senior senator, the man had pull.
