Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hiss. Then Hiss, unaware of what Chambers testified, was asked about certain details of his own life. His facts and Chambers' fell together like tumblers in the lock of a safe...
Nixon reasoned that if Chambers had known Hiss as well as he said he did, he would know details of Hiss's life and habits that a stranger would not know. In secret session, Nixon drew from Chambers a mass of detailed information about...
Most startling was the case of the prothonotary warbler. Chambers remembered that Hiss's hobby was bird watching, and that Hiss had once told him he had seen a prothonotary warbler. Hiss was asked if he had ever seen one. He said he had, and the incident fitted well with Chambers' previous testimony. This was the turning point of the Hiss case. From then on, most of the committee members were convinced that Hiss was lying. After Chambers had produced the microfilms of State Department documents from his famed pumpkin and the Justice Department was fighting with...
Writes Chambers in Witness: "To [my children] he is always 'Nixie,' the kind and the good, about whom they will tolerate no nonsense. His somewhat martial Quakerism sometimes amused and always heartened me. I have a vivid picture of him in the blackest hour of the Hiss case, standing by the barn and saying in his quietly savage way (he is the kindest of men): 'If the American people understood the real character of Alger Hiss, they would boil...
...American people really "understand" about Hiss and about the profound implications of the Hiss case? On this question the man of ordinary common sense may be less confused than many an "intellectual." There is no question that Communists did infiltrate the Government of the U.S., and exercised influence there as well as elsewhere in American life. It is part of Nixon's job to show that if Americans want to rid themselves of Communism and left-wingism at home, they must throw the Democrats...