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There could be little question about Nixon's abilities-yet they earned him almost as many enemies as admirers. He came to national attention as the House investigator who caught Alger Hiss; for that very achievement, he was to suffer much abuse. As Vice President, he served with energy and dignity, often representing the U.S. abroad with courage beyond the call of duty. In his 1960 drive for the presidency, he began as the candidate of experience, but his once-sure political touch left him and he ran a bad campaign. His worst enemies agreed that he was capable...
...specific, let us take the example which the CRIMSON itself notes: the Alger Hiss Case. Mr. Schwarts refers to Hiss as a "victim" of Mr. Nixon. Well, so he was, in the sense that any criminal is the victim of the men who apprehend and prosecute him. But one gets the impression that something more than this was intended in the choice of that word "victim," one gets the impression that one is to feel sympathy for Hiss, that he was guilty only of providing a stepping stone for the career of an ambitious man. Lest it be forgotten...
...that Mr. Nixon's remarks to the press were ill-advised; certainly they were out politically sagacious, although under the circumstances I think they were more than understandable. However, what are these but minor objections compared to the ABC "Political Obituary of Richard Nixon," which saw Alger Hiss himself displaying the unbelievable presumption of sitting in judgment of Mr. Nixon. As Senator Thomas Dedd of Connecticut, a liberal Democrat, commented in a protest telegram to ABC and the FCC, "It seems to me incredible that millions of viewers who tuned in to see a Veterans Day program about our armed...
...taken what seemed the most promising route to Washington, sitting and waiting for a chance to come his way. When it came, he took it, boldly and without a second thought, like the hero of a perverse version of the American success story. The victim of his success, Alger Hiss, was not simply being kind on that television show when he said of Nixon, "He was responding to a situation in this country, an ugly period, an ugly time, and riding it rather than actually creating it, I think. If it hadn't been Mr. Nixon, perhaps someone else would...
Bergson & Bosch. If Cancer was an old world debauch, Capricorn is a kind of New World Sinphony. an account of Author Miller's coming of age in New York City (1900-23). Incredibly garrulous and grotesque, the book is a disordered Horatio Alger story: escape from a poor Brooklyn boyhood, as it might have been written by Harpo Marx and Hieronymus Bosch working together. Wild philosophic maunderings sprinkled with a self-taught man's self-conscious display of highfalutin' acquaintances (Bergson, Nietzsche. Whitman) proclaim Miller's belief in the sovereignty of the heart over the mind...