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Among the 500 Law Review alumni attending the dinner will be Abram J. Chayes '43, legal adviser to the State Department, Alger Hiss, and David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences...
...execute the Cuba plan that he had denounced as 'dangerously irresponsible.' " Last week the left-wing Nation triumphantly flushed another controversy from Nixon's book. "Richard M. Nixon," it said, "has just kicked a large hole in his -and the Government's - case against Alger Hiss." The hole: Nixon's statement that FBI agents in December 1948 had found the old Woodstock typewriter that was instrumental in establishing Hiss's guilt...
...Nixons, as the columnists used to call them, inextricably merged into a curious figure who for fourteen years climbed the political ladder of America using his crises as the rungs. His first (if we, like him, do not mention in detail the Voorhis and Douglas campaigns) was the Hiss case, in which the freshman Congressman used a seat on the Un-American Activities Committee to ensure the conviction of Alger Hiss for perjury. He built on his success a reputation for finding subversives, and so it was that General Eisenhower, who hardly knew him in 1952, chose...
...Nixon is glows in every page of his book. He pictures each crisis as a physical ordeal, before which his blood-pressure must thump at the right level and his mind work coolly, cleared for action; and after which he must not relax too soon. His questioning of Hiss, his speech on the "Nixon Fund," and his interviews with Khrushchev are prizefights; the analogy occurs again and again...
...wonders fitfully, through it all, why so many intellectuals continue to distrust him--even when they readily acknowledge his courage and skill in Moscow and Caracas. He concludes, with a truly disquieting ingenuousness, that his role in the Hiss case marked him; those who refused to believe in Hiss' guilt disliked him for convincing them they were wrong. What he does not realise is that his theory is only partly right. They dislike him largely because they do not suppose his nicer suits, quieter ties, and speeches about diplomacy rather than subversives to be evidences that he has changed very...