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Then, for more than six hours, the committee's questioners tried to pin Alger Hiss down to fine details. Lawyer Hiss, a Harvard Law School graduate and a onetime secretary to Oliver Wendell Holmes, was not an easy man to pin down. He was cool, deliberate and professional, at times tripping up and correcting his questioners, at all times insisting on giving a precise answer. Knowing better than anyone that a possible perjury charge hung on his every word, he almost never offered a flat yes or a flat no. His favorite phrase, as he fenced tediously with...
...California's Congressman Richard Nixon. A good example of his testimony was his reply to the question: Had he ever been in Henry Collins' apartment in St. Matthews Court? This, Chambers had testified, was the Washington meeting place of the elite Communist group, of which he said Hiss was a member. Had Hiss ever been there when Lee Pressman, John Abt or Charles Kramer were there...
...Hiss: I may have been in one or another place of Mr. Collins' abode when one or another or more than one of the other people you have referred to may have been present. If so, it was on some social occasion-dinner, cocktails, something of that sort...
Stripling: I believe you have testified, Mr. Hiss, that to your knowledge none of these people were members of the Communist Party...
...Hiss: I did not testify that to my knowledge they...