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===Cox Committee===
===Cox Committee===
Goodwin was a member of the 1952 '''[[Cox Committee]]''', the [[Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations]] during the 82nd Congress. It is named after its chair, [[Democrat]] [[segregation]]ist [[Eugene E. Cox]].
Goodwin was a member of the 1952 '''[[Cox Committee]]''', the [[Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations]] during the 82nd Congress. It is named after its chair, [[Democrat]] [[segregation]]ist [[Eugene E. Cox]].
The committee sent questionnaires to foundations and conducted hearings, although the scope of the investigations was relatively shallow.<ref name=fascinatingpolitics>FascinatingPolitics (December 22, 2019). [https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2019/12/22/the-reece-committee-on-foundations-conspiratorial-nonsense-or-an-expose-of-a-threat-to-the-nation/comment-page-1/ The Reece Committee on Foundations: Conspiratorial Nonsense or an Expose of a Threat to the Nation?]. ''Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History''. Retrieved August 7, 2021.</ref> Cox died in December 1952, having only read and approved what became the first half of the final report. The subsequent report whitewashed subversive activities among tax-exempt foundations.
A member of the select committee, conservative Republican congressman [[B. Carroll Reece]] of Eastern [[Tennessee]], expressed discontent with the limited time and scope of the investigation, stating:<ref>January 1, 1953. Final Report Of The Select Committee To Investigate Foundations And Other Organizations (Pursuant to H. Res. 561, 82d Cong.), p. 1. Retrieved October 6, 2021.
Final Report, pp. 14. Retrieved October 4, 2021.</ref>
{{cquote|As pointed out and stressed in this report, the select committee has had in sufficient time for the magnitude of its task. Although I was unable to attend the full hearing I feel compelled to observe that, if a more comprehensive study is desired, the inquiry might be continued by the Eighty-third Congress with profit in view of the importance of the subject, the fact that tax-exempt funds in very large amounts are spent without public accountability or official supervision of any sort, and that, admittedly, considerable question able expenditures have been made.}}
===Reece Committee===
===Reece Committee===
On July 27, 1953, the House of Representatives voted to re-enact the Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations at the request of Rep. Reece, who believed that the Cox Committee conducted an insufficient job in the previous congressional session.<ref name=fascinatingpolitics>FascinatingPolitics (December 22, 2019). [https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2019/12/22/the-reece-committee-on-foundations-conspiratorial-nonsense-or-an-expose-of-a-threat-to-the-nation/comment-page-1/ The Reece Committee on Foundations: Conspiratorial Nonsense or an Expose of a Threat to the Nation?]. ''Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History''. Retrieved August 7, 2021.</ref> Goodwin was part of the forty-nine GOP representatives who voted against the resolution.<ref name=rollcallvote>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/83-1953/h61 H RES 217. RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO CON- DUCT A FULL AND COMPLETE INVESTIGATION AND STUDY OF EDUCA- TIONAL AND PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS AND OTHER COMPARABLE ORGANIZATIONS WHICH ARE EXEMPT FROM FED. INCOME TAXATION.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved August 8, 2021.</ref>
On July 27, 1953, the House of Representatives voted to re-enact the Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations at the request of Rep. Reece, who believed that the Cox Committee conducted an insufficient job in the previous congressional session.<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/> Goodwin was part of the forty-nine GOP representatives who voted against the resolution.<ref name=rollcallvote>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/83-1953/h61 H RES 217. RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO CON- DUCT A FULL AND COMPLETE INVESTIGATION AND STUDY OF EDUCA- TIONAL AND PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS AND OTHER COMPARABLE ORGANIZATIONS WHICH ARE EXEMPT FROM FED. INCOME TAXATION.]. ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved August 8, 2021.</ref>
Notwithstanding his vote, Goodwin was placed onto the select committee (known as the '''[[Reece Committee]]''') along with Michigan conservative Republican [[Jesse Wolcott]], who supported the resolution.<ref name=rollcallvote/> He ultimately signed the final Dodd report and proved to be vital in approving it,<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/> though expressed disagreement over the conclusions, submitting a differing assertion in which he expressed a concurrence for the report of the previous Cox Committee.
Notwithstanding his vote, Goodwin was placed onto the select committee (known as the '''[[Reece Committee]]''') along with Michigan conservative Republican [[Jesse Wolcott]], who supported the resolution.<ref name=rollcallvote/> He ultimately signed the final Dodd report and proved to be vital in approving it,<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/> though expressed disagreement over the conclusions, submitting a differing assertion in which he expressed a concurrence for the report of the previous Cox Committee.