Ol' Joe McCarthy was an alchy and he hit his wife in front of HL Hunt and Clint Murchison at a Palm Sprins conservative gathering.
Hunt, Cullen and the other Texans dumped the wife smackin' booze hound , having made excuses for his sodden antic for sometime prior, and presumable, sick of it.
"“If you have erred, the error can be laid to the intensity of purpose and not to the desire to hurt any innocent people,” Murchison wrote McCarthy. “I am trying to play the role of a good Samaritan who is trying to join the hands of two noble citizens. May God and others be with you, my boy, to the bitter end—including me.
Sincerely, Clint.”
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/murchison-clinton-williams-jr
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/texans-helped-create-joe-mccarthy/