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...President, is it true that you once characterized Richard Nixon's investigation into the Alger Hiss case as a red herring...
...didn't approve the investigation and exposure of Alger Hiss...
...didn't say that at all. I said the investigation was for the purpose of covering up the facts in legislation in which the Government was interested at the time for the welfare of the people. That's all it was intended to be. Alger Hiss was never convicted of being disloyal to the Government...
...common sense of the Republican party's leadership. Long before President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, the whispering campaign against Nixon was, under way. In fact, it was initiated about eighteen months ago by certain extremist groups which resented bitterly his exposure in 1949 of Alger Hiss. It seems odd to suggest that any one should be disqualified for high office just because he offended his political opponents, but that was the main basis for a rash of articles and broadcasts from Democratic party sympathizers who decided that the Vice-Presidency should be given "more attention...
...unsurpassedly keen observer of contemporary London life, if not a peeping Tom; and he gave us here a vivid picture of the artisan and aristocratic milieus. The finest social comedy of its age, Holiday has special appeal for us today: it presents pre-echos of the Horatio Alger story, champions the ideals of democracy (even the King proclaims that "love respects no blood, cares not for difference of birth or state"), and contains the first labor sit down strike in drama...