: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.
:39:01
After two trials, Hiss was convicted
not of spying but of per jury.
:39:05
To some, Nixon was a hero
and a patriot.
:39:07
But to many, he was
a shameless self-promoter.
:39:10
Eleanor Roosevelt
angrily condemned him.
:39:12
Nixon continued to tear into Truman,
Acheson and the Democratic party...
:39:16
...for losing mainland China
in 1949
:39:19
...and blamed the Korean War
on a weak foreign policy.
:39:22
I promise to expose and
to continue to expose...
:39:25
...the people that have sold
this country down the river!
:39:27
His speeches, if more subtle than those
of his Republican all Joe McCarthy...
:39:32
...were just as aggressive.
:39:35
The direct result of Truman's decision
is that China has gone Communist!
:39:39
Mao is a monster!
Why?
:39:42
Who in the State Department
is watching over American interests?
:39:45
Who has given the Russians
the atomic bomb?
:39:48
The Soviet Union is an example of
a slave state in the ultimate development.
:39:53
Driven by demons that seemed
more personal than political...
:39:56
Nixon became Eisenhower's
vice presidential candidate in 1952.