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{{cquote|...in that report, I specifically, number one, defined, to us, what was meant by the phrase un-American. And we defined that in our way as being a determination to affect changes in the country by unconstitutional means. We have plenty of constitutional procedures assuming that we wish to affect a change in the form of government or that sort of thing. And therefore any effort in that direction which did not reveal itself of the procedures which were authorized by the Constitution could be justifiably called un-American.}}
{{cquote|...in that report, I specifically, number one, defined, to us, what was meant by the phrase un-American. And we defined that in our way as being a determination to affect changes in the country by unconstitutional means. We have plenty of constitutional procedures assuming that we wish to affect a change in the form of government or that sort of thing. And therefore any effort in that direction which did not reveal itself of the procedures which were authorized by the Constitution could be justifiably called un-American.}}
The Carnegie Foundation and Ford Foundation were the main targets of the committee's investigation. Among the more interesting and specific subjects of the investigation included the funding by the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] for Nazi collaborator and sexual revolutionary [[Alfred Kinsey]].<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/>
The Carnegie Foundation and Ford Foundation were the main targets of the committee's investigation. Among the more interesting and specific subjects of the investigation included the funding by the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] for Nazi collaborator and sexual revolutionary [[Alfred Kinsey]].<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/>
{{cquote|We would not think of doing any such thing.}}
{{cquote|We would not think of doing any such thing.}}
[[File:Wayne Hays 1973.jpg|thumb|right|160px|Ohio representative Wayne L. Hayes attempted to derail the committee.]]
===Obstruction by Wayne Hays===
===Obstruction by Wayne Hays===
President [[Dwight Eisenhower]], who turned against [[Joseph McCarthy]] in the latter's investigations of communist infiltration, similarly worked to undermine the work of the Reece Committee.<ref name=thenewamerican>Jasper, William F. (February 6, 2017). [https://thenewamerican.com/cutting-off-the-toxic-funding-flow/ Foundations: Cutting Off the Toxic Funding Flow]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 7, 2021.</ref> He urged committee member Hays to sabotage hearings via rude behavior and damage and undermine its overall committee's reputation, which the congressman did. Hays had been appointed to the committee for such purposes by House Minority Leader [[Sam Rayburn]],<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/> who had joined the majority of Democrats in voting against the resolution to establish the committee.<ref name=rollcallvote/>
President [[Dwight Eisenhower]], who turned against [[Joseph McCarthy]] in the latter's investigations of communist infiltration, similarly worked to undermine the work of the Reece Committee.<ref name=thenewamerican>Jasper, William F. (February 6, 2017). [https://thenewamerican.com/cutting-off-the-toxic-funding-flow/ Foundations: Cutting Off the Toxic Funding Flow]. ''The New American''. Retrieved August 7, 2021.</ref> He urged committee member Hays to sabotage hearings via rude behavior and damage and undermine its overall committee's reputation, which the congressman did. Hays had been appointed to the committee for such purposes by House Minority Leader [[Sam Rayburn]],<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/> who had joined the majority of Democrats in voting against the resolution to establish the committee.<ref name=rollcallvote/>