NIXON, Richard M. (1913-1994), President . Typed letter signed ("Richard Nixon") to Raymond Fellows, Washington, D. C., 13 February 1950. 1 page, 4to, on House of Representatives stationery .
NIXON, Richard M. (1913-1994), President . Typed letter signed ("Richard Nixon") to Raymond Fellows, Washington, D. C., 13 February 1950. 1 page, 4to, on House of Representatives stationery . NIXON ON THE HISS CASE AND "THE STRENGTH AND SCOPE OF THE COMMUNIST THREAT TO OUR FREEDOM" "I appreciate very much your letter of February 3," Nixon writes, "and your generous comments concerning my speech in the House on the Hiss case. It is my most earnest hope that my remarks will contribute in some measure to a nation-wide understanding of the strength and scope of the communist threat to our freedom." Hiss had just been convicted in January 1950 of perjury, stemming from his false denials of espionage, made before Nixon's House Committee on Un-American activities and before a Southern District of New York Federal grand jury. Nixon was the key figure in bringing Hiss down, and it made him a national figure. America has never known such a gripping political melodrama. In 1948 Whittaker Chambers, an admitted ex-spy and now a book reviewer for Time magazine, testified before Nixon's committee that he and Alger Hiss had been Soviet spies together in the 1930s. The charge was electrifying: Hiss had been a clerk to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes a high State Department official, and now president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was a pillar of the liberal establishment, and to Nixon's fury, he seemed on the verge of getting off scot free simply because of his impeccable references. Supreme Court Justices, Felix Frankfurter and Stanley Reed vouched for Hiss, as did Secretary of State Dean Acheson. President Truman called the case a "red herring." But Hiss's claims of innocence were full of holes and Nixon exposed them in a devastating interrogation before the Committee. Hiss was put on trial for perjury and after a first trial ended in a hung jury, he was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison.
NIXON, Richard M. (1913-1994), President . Typed letter signed ("Richard Nixon") to Raymond Fellows, Washington, D. C., 13 February 1950. 1 page, 4to, on House of Representatives stationery .
NIXON, Richard M. (1913-1994), President . Typed letter signed ("Richard Nixon") to Raymond Fellows, Washington, D. C., 13 February 1950. 1 page, 4to, on House of Representatives stationery . NIXON ON THE HISS CASE AND "THE STRENGTH AND SCOPE OF THE COMMUNIST THREAT TO OUR FREEDOM" "I appreciate very much your letter of February 3," Nixon writes, "and your generous comments concerning my speech in the House on the Hiss case. It is my most earnest hope that my remarks will contribute in some measure to a nation-wide understanding of the strength and scope of the communist threat to our freedom." Hiss had just been convicted in January 1950 of perjury, stemming from his false denials of espionage, made before Nixon's House Committee on Un-American activities and before a Southern District of New York Federal grand jury. Nixon was the key figure in bringing Hiss down, and it made him a national figure. America has never known such a gripping political melodrama. In 1948 Whittaker Chambers, an admitted ex-spy and now a book reviewer for Time magazine, testified before Nixon's committee that he and Alger Hiss had been Soviet spies together in the 1930s. The charge was electrifying: Hiss had been a clerk to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes a high State Department official, and now president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was a pillar of the liberal establishment, and to Nixon's fury, he seemed on the verge of getting off scot free simply because of his impeccable references. Supreme Court Justices, Felix Frankfurter and Stanley Reed vouched for Hiss, as did Secretary of State Dean Acheson. President Truman called the case a "red herring." But Hiss's claims of innocence were full of holes and Nixon exposed them in a devastating interrogation before the Committee. Hiss was put on trial for perjury and after a first trial ended in a hung jury, he was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison.
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