Mr. Jenner. Toward Communist principles?
Mr. Powers. None that I recall.
Mr. Jenner. Or Marxist doctrines?
Mr. Powers. None that I recall; no, sir.
Mr. Jenner. Or did he ever discuss those subjects with you or in your presence?
Mr. Powers. I'm not sure. He didn't discuss them to any great length or to any issues that I would recall.
Mr. Jenner. Nothing to excite you?
Mr. Powers. Nothing that I would attach any political significance to.
Mr. Jenner. And what was his attitude toward discipline in the Marine Corps? Was it antagonistic? Was it different in any degree from other marines?
Mr. Powers. No; I don't think that it was. I think he was like any other marine, that he made his bed and now he was going to have to lie in it. He volunteered. A lot of complaining just as anyone else did. But nothing that you could say that was any different than any other individual. However, he, again going back to the incident that he did have, he was somewhat, if you want to call it, hostile, so to speak, to authority. He must have been—or he had something that would bother him that he would flare up once in a while.