John Meyer testifies about his publicity work for Howard Hughes, discusses entertaining Col. Elliott Roosevelt

CU SOT John W. Meyer, Publicity Director for Howard Hughes, testifies before the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program: "Public relations is a nebulous statement; you do a lot of things." Voice of Sen. homer Ferguson: "What were your duties? You must have had a conversation about what your duties consisted of." Meyer: "I would do whatever Mr. Hughes asked me to do." Voice: "Your job was really to do what Mr. Hughes asked you to do." Meyer: "That is right." Voice: "And did that consist of entertaining any Army officers?" Meyer: "That consisted of doing most of the things that Mr. Hughes would not have time to do." Voice: "Well, my question is now, did you - was one of your duties t entertain Army officers?" Meyer: "Yes." Voice: "And Navy officers." Meyer: "Right." Voice: "And other public officials." Meyer: "Right." / CU SOT Meyer: "Basically every Navy officer." / MS Committee sitting around table / MS Meyer listening voice of Sen. Ferguson saying: "Colonel [Elliott] Roosevelt and this group of Army officers wanted to go through movie studio, is that what -" / CU SOT Meyer: " I assume they did." Voice: "Did you take them through a movie studio?" Meyer: "I don't remember, but I presume that I did." Voice: "All right, go ahead now. Do you want to answer further?" Meyer: "The fact that you now refresh my mind, I think I took them through a Warner Bros. Studio." / CU SOT Meyer: "Because I introduced her to him." Voice: "Oh. That is first-hand knowledge. You introduced Miss Emerson [Faye Emerson, Roosevelt's wife] to Roosevelt." Meyer: "That is right." Voice: "Where was that and when?" Meyer: "I believe, it was, you asked me earlier if he had gone through a studio. I think she met him in the commissary of Warner Bros. Studio." / Note: exact day not known