Correspondence. Date: November 28, 1954; From: John L. Hitchings; To: Richard Nixon, Vice President; Contents: Reports to Nixon that in a letter to Hitchings, Senator Smathers expressed the opinion that he agreed with the decision of the Watkins Committee to censure McCarthy even though McCarthy had yet to speak in his own defense. Expresses the view that the decision to censure McCarthy was Communist fomented and Constitutionally wrong.