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...charge-that the Eisenhower Administration has not handled the Communist-at-home issue properly-Nixon again compared past and present. "This Administration," he said, "recognizes the danger of Communist infiltration . . . We don't agree with Mr. Truman in kissing off that danger by calling it a 'red herring.' Nor do we agree with Mr. Stevenson, referring as he did to the investigations of that danger as 'chasing phantoms' . . . We know . . . that men like Alger Hiss and Harry White turned over secret papers to the Communists . . . We know that our atomic experts said that the Russians...
...that Fanfani would prove to be the mouthpiece of the new, active spirit of the Catholic left," he said, "but instead, he reveals in the most stupefying and offensive way his conception of the corporate and paternalis tic state. Fanfani, your government is ... as dead as a sad smoked herring...
...press conference on Aug. 5, 1948 (the. day Alger Hiss swore to the Un-American Activities Committee that he had never been a Communist), Truman was asked: "Mr. President, do you think the Capitol Hill spy hearings are a good thing, or do you think they are a red herring to divert attention from the anti-inflation program?" Mr. Truman's reply: the hearings are a red herring. Then & there he made an exception to the rule banning direct quotes from presidential press conferences. Said Mr. Truman: "Yes, you can quote me. I said they are simply...
Former President Truman, on a filmed television program with Columnist Drew Pearson last week, gave his version of the famed "red herring" crack about congressional spy hunts in 1948. Said Harry Truman: "The facts of the case are that, in a press conference one morning, some young man . . . asked me if the action of the House Un-American Activities Committee was not in the form of a red herring to cover up what the Republican Administration in the 80th Congress had not done, and I said it might...
...never made any statement that there was a red herring, although the Republicans when they're in power always try to cover up their mistakes by attacking somebody or some institution...