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...sale in the morning. Occasionally she would catch shoplifters, but, instead of turning them over to the police, she would give them a little sermon, always aware that the disgrace of an arrest would hurt their families. Her son reflects that feeling. "Even when I was convinced that Hiss was a traitor," says Nixon, "I couldn't help thinking of his family and his friends, and how hard this was on them...
Opportunity came a year and a half later, when a man called Whittaker Chambers testified before the committee that a man called Alger Hiss was a Communist...
...Remembering that Richard M. Nixon was one of the men who helped unearth the data in the Alger Hiss matter reminded me very much of my high-school days when we read Cicero's Orations in Latin, and how Cicero castigated Catiline for electing to betray Rome rather than use his talents to further the Roman State. The same is so aptly true about these two men. Another interesting angle is that both of them are of the Society of Friends ... It would seem that of the two, Hiss had by far the greater advantages in influence and training...
Liabilities: 1) The Alger Hiss Case...
...worked with or around Hiss in the U.S. Agricultural Adjustment Administration in 1933, in the State Department in 1945, at the United Nations Conference in San Francisco that year, at the United Nations General Assembly in London in 1946, and in New York a year later. In 1949, he signed a deposition that Hiss had a good reputation for loyalty, which became part of Hiss's defense. His opponents contend that this was a positive act in Hiss' defense, after the essential facts of Hiss's disloyalty had been revealed by Whittaker Chambers before the House...