Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your readers remember that he was a friend of Chambers, not Hiss, when they cast their vote this fall...
...tolerance of Communist infiltration issue as a broad and continuing characteristic of the Democratic Party. Part of the Republican ammunition is the failure of Democratic leaders to make certain motions to get themselves off this hook. Secretary Acheson said that he would not turn his back on Alger Hiss. Harry Truman's last word on the Hiss case was to call it a "red herring...
This issue presents Stevenson with one of his most delicate and difficult problems. The problem is further complicated by the fact that Stevenson himself made a deposition in support of Hiss's good reputation when they were acquainted in Washington which was used by the Hiss defense. Stevenson's friends think this action can be defended, and the Republicans will doubtless try to make sure that the Democrats are kept busy defending it. So far, Stevenson has made no effort to change the Truman-Acheson line. Two weeks ago he called for resistance to Communism abroad...
Nixon says: "It's up to Stevenson. If he concedes the gravity of the domestic-Communist problem he can take the Hiss issue right out of the campaign. But if he sticks to the line [ the "phantoms among ourselves"], the Hiss case will be very much an issue. Stevenson is vulnerable, not on a basis of loyalty, but certainly on the basis of judgment...
...Senate. Largely as a result of Nixon's work on the Hiss case, a group of young California Republicans urged him to run for the Senate in 1950. Campaigning vigorously against the Democrats' Actress-Politician Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon toured the state in a station wagon, while Mrs. Douglas used a helicopter. Nixon developed a memorable ploy against her, obviously a major addition to Lifemanship.* He audibly and publicly worried about her health and, as a friend describes it, "He'd get a real sad look on his face whenever he bumped into...