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...National Presbyterian Church, not far from the house where Hoover was born, Richard Nixon did him the additional honor of delivering the funeral eulogy. The two men had had a mutual admiration ever since the days when Nixon, a freshman Congressman from California, had begun his pursuit of Alger Hiss and "the Communist conspiracy." Hoover, said Nixon, "was one of the giants, a man who helped keep steel in America's backbone and the flame of freedom in America's soul...
...Harrisburg Seven eagerly claimed a moral victory, hugging one another and raising their fingers in the peace sign. Though they elected not to testify in their own behalf, the defendants' cause was stridently reiterated in the Easter week demonstrations in Harrisburg that attracted speakers ranging from Alger Hiss and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy to Daniel Ellsberg and Congresswoman Bella Abzug. "We have a feeling that we are celebrating something of a victory," said Sister Elizabeth. Eqbal Ahmad, a Pakistani scholar and the only non-Catholic defendant, announced to cheering supporters: "My plans are to get out of here...
...lights." Buckley eventually suggested in print that some slight was also intended because Chou drank "to the health" of President Nixon instead of toasting him directly. Of Nixon's performance he snapped, "I would not have been surprised if he had lurched into a toast of Alger Hiss...
...checkered career of the unsinkable Richard M. in an indefatigable attempt to discover what makes this public man run. There is the 1964 congressional campaign in which the Bank of America quietly assists young Richard in his smear attacks on Congressman Jerry Voorhis: Nixon's prosecution of Alger Hiss, along with his clever use of closed congressional hearings ("I am holding in my hand a microfilm of very highly classified secret documents."); the 1950 Senatorial campaign with its "pink sheet" attacks on Helen Gahagan Douglas; the side-splitting Checkers speech in which every cheap rhetorical device which Nixon would later...
...collapse of Chiang Kai-shek gave them an excuse. Exploiting a confused and distressed public, Senator Joseph McCarthy seized the issue to denounce the "Red Dean" and demand his resignation. Illustrating what Halle called a "moral courage that sometimes amounted to recklessness," Acheson came to the defense of Alger Hiss, the onetime State Department official who was exposed as a Soviet agent. "I will not turn my back on Alger Hiss," he told a stunned press conference...