[First day of Senate Committee hearings]
Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster:
Mr. Hughes, it is the intention of this committee...
Noah Dietrich:
Mr. Hughes has a statement.
Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster:
All right. All right. You may-- you may proceed With this, uh, statement, Mr. Hughes.
[beat as Howard is still silent]
Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster:
Mr. Hughes, do you have a statement?
Howard Hughes:
I'm gonna... I'm gonna attempt to be honest here. I mean, my reputation's being destroyed, so I might as well lay all the cards on the table. Senator Brewster, if you hadn't gone too far overboard, if you hadn't have put the red-hot iron in my side, I might have been willing to take a shellacking in this publicity spree of yours. I might have been willing to sit back and take a certain amount of abuse, simply because, well...
[chuckles]
Howard Hughes:
Well, I am only a private citizen. Whereas you are a Senator, with all sorts of powers. But I think this goddamn circus has gone on long enough!
Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster:
[cracks his gavel]
That's quite sufficient, Mr. Hughes.
Howard Hughes:
You have called me a liar, sir, in the press!
[begins pounding on a stack of newspapers on the table]
Howard Hughes:
You have called me a liar, and a thief, and a war profiteer!
Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster:
The witness will restrain his...
[Howard suddenly stands and everything goes quiet]
Howard Hughes:
Why not tell the truth for once, Senator? Why not tell the truth that this investigation was really born on the day that TWA first decided to fly to Europe? On the day that TWA first invaded *Juan Trippe's* territory?
Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster:
[sternly]
Sit down, Mr. Hughes?
Howard Hughes:
[still standing]
On the day that TWA first challenged the generally accepted theory that only Juan Trippe's great Pan-American Airways had the sacred right to fly the Atlantic!
[the crowd goes crazy; cameras are flashing]
Sen. Ralph Owen Brewster:
[cracking gavel again]
I asked for silence! I asked for quiet in this room and we are going to have quiet!
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