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...committee could be given the power to issue subpoenas and grant immunity from prosecution. There is precedent for Nixon to refuse to cooperate with a committee on grounds of Executive privilege. In 1953, President Truman cited the privilege in turning back a subpoena from the House Un-American Activities Committee. But the committee was investigating one of his appointments as President, and not his involvement in a well-documented criminal conspiracy, as is the case with Nixon...
...exact effects of American strategy overseas may never be completely known. World War III-which 74% of Americans once believed would inevitably occur within a decade after 1947-has not occurred. But who can say for sure if that was the result of courageous U.S. policy, Russian prudence or sheer chance? What the cold war did to the U.S. can be more easily measured, especially since the partisanship that once labeled as un-American any evenhanded inquiry into the subject has now faded...
...stocky, amiable Mundt applied his oratorical talents to the cause of American isolationism before Pearl Harbor awakened him to international concerns. A supporter of the United Nations and sponsor of the bill creating the Voice of America, he became a tough postwar antiCommunist. As acting chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, he helped young Richard Nixon push the investigation of Alger Hiss. Elected to the Senate in 1948, Mundt reluctantly chaired the McCarthy-Army hearings six years later. After suffering a stroke in 1969, he refused to resign and in February 1972, he became the first Senator ever...
...Before his first term was out, he had become a national figure for his role in the investigation of the attractive, patrician Alger Hiss as a former Communist courier. The House Un-American Activities Committee was ready to abandon its probe, but Nixon persevered until a plainly damaging case had been made against Hiss, largely on the witness of Whittaker Chambers, a brilliant and enigmatic writer and editor who, before he joined TIME in 1939, had been a Communist for 15 years...
...Party member who quit because of the party's doctrinaire artistic strictures-may have been, as he later said, a naive radical. But the play's point is, if simple, nonetheless vibrant and valid for the historical moment which inspired it and for today. As Odets told the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, it wasn't Communism that made him hate poverty...