:37:02
But as I leave you, I wis...
I want you to know.
:37:05
Just think what you're
gonna be missing.
:37:08
You won't have Nixon
to kick around anymore.
:37:12
Kick around anymore.
:37:23
Because, gentlemen,
this is my last press conference.
:37:26
Thank you and good day.
Mr. Nixon!
:37:29
Mr. Nixon, is this the end
of politics for you?
:37:39
Here in California...
:37:41
...we can officially write the political
obituary of Richard Milhouse Nixon.
:37:45
As mall town lawyer like Lincoln,
Nixon became a representative at 33
:37:49
...and a senator at 35
:37:51
...as part of the post war Republican sweep
of the congressional elections...
:37:54
...that attacked F.D.R.'s
big-government new deal.
:37:57
Running as
a South Pacific veteran...
:37:59
...victories over Congressman Jerry Voorhis
and Senator Helen Gahagan Douglas...
:38:04
...made it clear that,
to Nixon, politics was war.
:38:06
He didn't have opponents,
he had enemies.
:38:09
Why, she's pink, right down
to her underwear!
:38:11
Nixon became one of
the leading lights...
:38:14
...on the notorious House Un-American
Activities Committee...
:38:16
...questioning labor leaders, Spanish Civil
War veterans, Hollywood celebrities.
:38:19
If I had my way, they'd all
be sent back to Russia.
:38:22
But it was the Alger Hiss case
that made Nixon a household name.
:38:25
One of the architects
of the United Nations...
:38:27
...intimate of F.D.R.
and Oliver Wendell Holmes...
:38:30
Alger Hiss was
a State Department diplomat...
:38:32
...accused by freelance journalist
Whittaker Chambers...
:38:35
...of passing secret documents
to the Soviet Union.
:38:37
Hiss is lying.
Hiss claimed he was being set up...
:38:41
...by Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover to
discredit the new deal's policies.
:38:44
I am not, and never have been,
a member of the Communist party.
:38:48
The case came down
to an Underwood typewriter...
:38:51
...and a roll of film
hidden in a pumpkin patch.
:38:54
I asked Hiss if he'd known Chambers.
:38:58
When he said no,
I knew he was lying; I knew I had him.