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Title Card: "Truman-Brownell - The Big Debate" "Highlights of the verbal battle growing out of the Harry Dexter White case..." / WS newsstand, people walk past / CU newspapers with headlines about Herbert Brownell / CU rear shot man reads NY Post, headline "Brownell on Stand" / Rear shot two women read NY Herald Tribune / CU rear shot man reads NY Journal-American, headline "Brownell Says FBI Data Show Truman Lax on Spies" / VS CU newspapers with headlines about FBI and Brownell: Cleveland News, Denver Post, Boston Daily Globe, Daily Mirror / VS CU newspapers with Truman headlines: Chicago Daily and Sun Times, Miami Herald, NY Post // [Kansas City, MO] CU SOT former US Pres. Harry Truman: "The Attorney General of the US has not only degraded his office, he has deceived his Chief as to do what he proposed to do. And saying Harry Dexter White was known to be a Communist spy by the very people who appointed him. He lied to the American people"; he discusses timeline of events // Title: "Washington DC" superimposed over hearing in progress / WS Senate committee hearing / Herbert Brownell Jr., US Attorney General, takes his seat / Photographers take photos / side view committee / TV and newsreel cameras / SOT Brownell: "… It has been said that I imply the possibility that the former president of the United States has been disloyal. I intended that no such inference be drawn. It is a blunt fact from which there is no escape that in the teeth of Nov 8 warning from the FBI the developing evidence indicated a substantial spy ring operating within the govt and involving Harry Dexter White." / cameramen / CU Brownell SOT: "…the documented report delivered to the White House on 12/4; some 6 weeks later, Pres. Truman on 1/23/1946 then publicly announced his nomination of Harry Dexter White for appointment to the International Monetary Fund. I just don't understand this. It still seems completely incredible to me" / Brownell gets up, leaves hearing, reporters take notes