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|colspan="7"|<div style="text-align:center; font-size:120%">'''<b>U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt<br>Foundations and Comparable Organizations, 82nd Congress</b>'''</div><hr>

|colspan="7"|<div style="text-align:center; font-size:120%">'''<b>U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt<br>Foundations and Comparable Organizations, 82nd Congress</b>'''</div><hr>

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Although there was a 4–3 Democrat majority, Cox was a part of the [[Conservative Coalition]], thus allowing for a simultaneous 4–3 conservative majority on the committee;<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/ 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 September 21, 2021.</ref> the other three Democrats, Hays, Forand, and O'Toole, were mostly liberal-leaning [[New Deal]]ers.

Although there was a 4–3 Democrat majority, Cox was a part of the [[Conservative Coalition]], thus allowing for a simultaneous 4–3 conservative majority on the committee;<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/ 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 September 21, 2021.</ref> the other three Democrats, Hays, Forand, and O'Toole, were mostly liberal-leaning [[New Deal]]ers.

===Confusion between Wayne Hays and Brooks Hays===

===Confusion between Wayne Hays and Brooks Hays===

A number of sources covering the Cox Committee make it unclear as to whether "Hays" referred to Brooks Hays or [[Wayne Hays]]. Although some sources cite the latter as a member who was acting chairman and filled the place of Cox,<ref name=libertyuniversity>Samson, Steven Alan. [https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1291&context=gov_fac_pubs Charity For All: B. Carroll Reece and the Tax-Exempt Foundations]. ''Liberty University''. Retrieved September 22, 2021.</ref> the final report states that Brooks Hays was the acting chairman.<ref name=finalreportpageii/> The two are unrelated.

A number of sources covering the Cox Committee make it unclear as to whether "Hays" referred to Brooks Hays or [[Wayne Hays]]. Although some cite the latter as a member who was acting chairman and filled the place of Cox,<ref name=libertyuniversity>Samson, Steven Alan. [https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1291&context=gov_fac_pubs Charity For All: B. Carroll Reece and the Tax-Exempt Foundations]. ''Liberty University''. Retrieved September 22, 2021.</ref> the final report states that Brooks Hays was the acting chairman.<ref name=finalreportpageii/> The two are unrelated.

==Investigation and report==

==Investigation and report==

#Do foundations recognize that they are in the nature of public trusts and are therefore accountable to the public or do they clothe their activities in secrecy and resent and repulse efforts to learn about them and their activities?

#Do foundations recognize that they are in the nature of public trusts and are therefore accountable to the public or do they clothe their activities in secrecy and resent and repulse efforts to learn about them and their activities?

#Are foundations being used as a device by which the control of great corporations are kept within the family of the foundation's founder or creator?

#Are foundations being used as a device by which the control of great corporations are kept within the family of the foundation's founder or creator?

#To what extent are foundations being used as a device for tax avoidance and [[tax evasion]]?}}

#To what extent are foundations being used as a device for tax avoidance and [[tax evasion]]?|||Final Report Of The Select Committee To Investigate Foundations And Other Organizations}}

The committee in 1952 sent all major foundations questionnaires which requested information about their operations and activities.<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/> Although it conducted hearings which amount to hundreds of pages in transcripts, the Cox Committee's investigation was not in-depth. Congressman Reece missed most of the sessions due to family illnesses.<ref name=libertyuniversity/>

The committee in 1952 sent all major foundations questionnaires which requested information about their operations and activities.<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/> Although it conducted hearings which amount to hundreds of pages in transcripts, the Cox Committee's investigation was not in-depth. Congressman Reece missed most of the sessions due to family illnesses.<ref name=libertyuniversity/>

Cox died in December 1952 prior to the conclusion of the committee's work and report's release.<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/> The 15 page-long<ref name=thenewamerican/><ref group=note>The report length is technically fifteen pages long, although the main text only spans fourteen pages due to the last one being "Appendix A."</ref> final report contained little substance and did not declare major foundations to have been subversive. It asserted on the second and third points:<ref>''Final Report'', pp. 7–8. Retrieved October 4, 2021.</ref>

Cox died in December 1952 prior to the conclusion of the committee's work and report's release.<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/> The 15 page-long<ref name=thenewamerican/><ref group=note>The report length is technically fifteen pages long, although the main text only spans fourteen pages due to the last one being "Appendix A."</ref> final report contained little substance and did not declare major foundations to have been subversive. It asserted on the second and third points:<ref>''Final Report'', pp. 7–8. Retrieved October 4, 2021.</ref>

{{quotebox|Our investigation, ''hurried by lack of time'', indicates that very few actual Communists or Communist sympathizers obtained positions of influence in the foundations. However, there are some unhappy instances where the committee is convinced infiltration occurred. There remains the ugly unalterable fact that [[Alger Hiss]] became the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. And this despite the fact that his nomination and election came about through the efforts of men of proven loyalty and broad experience in public affairs.

{{quotebox|Our investigation, ''hurried by lack of time'', indicates that very few actual Communists or Communist sympathizers obtained positions of influence in the foundations. However, there are some unhappy instances where the committee is convinced infiltration occurred. There remains the ugly unalterable fact that [[Alger Hiss]] became the president of the [[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]. And this despite the fact that his nomination and election came about through the efforts of men of proven loyalty and broad experience in public affairs.

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#Foundations were not asked why they did not support projects of a pro-American type.

#Foundations were not asked why they did not support projects of a pro-American type.

#Extensive evidence was not used.

#Extensive evidence was not used.

#The [[Ford Foundation]] was not investigated.}}

#The [[Ford Foundation]] was not investigated.|||The Dodd Report to the Reece Committee on Foundations}}

==References==

==References==