Word: nixon
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...most tantalizing figures of the cold war. His 1949 trial and retrial in a Soviet-espionage case personified the explosive political and class conflicts of the time, serving as the first morality play of the red-baiting era. And the case gave one of its investigators, Congressman Richard Nixon, the national prominence he would later exploit to pursue higher office...
...assume the largely ceremonial presidency of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Hiss was serving as head of the Endowment on Aug. 3, 1948, when Whittaker Chambers, a brilliant but controversial senior editor at TIME, reluctantly appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee; one of its members was Nixon, an ambitious young California Republican. Chambers, a portly, rumpled man with a melodramatic style, had been a communist courier but broke with the party in 1938. He told the committee that among the members of a secret communist cell in Washington during the '30s was Hiss...
...rush of scientific optimism that followed the polio vaccine and the first moon walk, Richard Nixon declared war on America's second biggest killer: cancer. Twenty-five years and $35 billion later, the news from the cancer front is good...
Washington, 1948: John Kennedy and Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and Joe McCarthy and all the others were back from their war. It had shown them the world, and an apocalypse or two, and the possibilities of the new global power that would become the stuff of their careers, their medium. The new cold war was the generation's moment, its opportunity. The veterans worked the capital--a southern town enlarged to world power and wired with new political electricity--and searched for their...
...McCarthy of Appleton, Wisconsin, would turn into a household ism and be dead within a decade of a boozehound's liver; three would make it to the White House, grasping all of Washington's power for a moment. One President would be assassinated in Texas. Two (Johnson and Nixon) would be driven from office in disgrace, which was also, by the way, the fate of world communism...