Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department." There is some dispute about whether or not McCarthy actually gave the number of people on the list as being "205" or "57". In a later telegram to President Truman, and when entering the speech into the Congressional Record, he used the number "57.") On March 10, 1948, Robinson testified before the Chenoweth committee about his association with Robert Talbot Miller III, No. 12 on the Lee List. Miller had been best man at Robinson's wedding. (Later that year, coincidentally, Elizabeth Bentley would name Miller as one of her sources for intelligence gathered for the Soviets.) On March 13, 1948, President Truman ordered all federal departments to withhold personnel security and loyalty files from Congress. On March 25, 1948, Representative Fred E. Busbey questioned Robinson's competence and loyalty during a public hearing. He called Robinson "incompetent." He related the fact that "a second cousin of his had gone to Moscow in 1934 and studied Russian." Assistant Secretary of State Peurifoy enabled this line of query by allowing the Busbey to see the Federal Bureau of Investigation file on Robinson (against the orders of President Truman). Adding to the controversy was a refusal only days before by U.S. Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman to turn over loyalty files of NIST chief Edward Condon to the U.S. Senate Atomic Energy Committee. The Washington Post pilloried Busbey's accusation: "Busbey's tenuous" indictment of the State Department's premier purification expert as a security risk because he has a suspect second cousin could be dismissed as a rather healthy reduction to absurdity of the whole loyalty extravaganza if it did not entail an issue of vital principle. Later life In 1948, Robinson became vice president and treasurer of the Foreign Service Educational Foundation, which supported the School of Advanced International Studies (now part of the Johns Hopkins University; he served in this capacity until 1952. In 1962, he joined the investment banking firm of Alex Brown & Sons. Personal and death Robinson first married Elizabeth Case, who died in 1940; they had three children. He then married Nancy B. Robinson; they had three children. Robinson died age 76 on October 12, 1986, following a heart attack at his home in Washington. See also Robert E. Lee (FCC) Bert Andrews (journalist) Fred E. Busbey John E. Peurifoy Sullivan & Cromwell John Foster