Do you think if they asked a man if he was a Democrat or a Republican that he would refuse to answer on the grounds that his answer might incriminate him? The very fact that this man pleaded his constitutional privilege–that is his admission that he is not talking about politics. If you believe that the Communist party is in the same category as the Democrat party or Republican party, then I think I can answer you in this way: We are not fighting Democrats or Republicans in Korea.
— Howard Hughes Contemporary

Billionaire, extreme OCD recluse

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Statement during RKO hearings, equating silence with guilt and making a politically charged comparison.

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Late 1940s-early 1950s

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2005/02/howard-hughes-last-hurrah-daniel-gordis/

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