Professor Nicole Hemmer
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first heard Apr 2025
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Ja, sehr, sehr. Das ist eine tolle Art, es darzustellen. Und er ist so schnell in Erinnerung, weil er in die Haustür kommt, als das große Thema des Tages der Koldauer ist. Ja. Und diese steigende Angst vor Kommunismus. Und Nixon sieht das Land. Und er positioniert sich, um einer der Top-Red-Hunters im Kongress zu sein. Und in diesem Fall, er darstellt einen sehr dramatischen Moment.
Es ist der Pumpkin Papers-Inzidenz. Where one of the suspected communists reaches into a pumpkin in a vegetable garden and pulls out microfilm that shows the spying that was going on. And Nixon is part of that process and becomes a household name because of all of the coverage of these hearings about potential communist spies in the United States.
Being an anti-communist, even a fervent anti-communist, was not that unusual by the time you get to the late 1940s, in part because the United States already had this history of being fervently anti-communist. There had already been a Red Scare in 1919 and 1920. And up until the point that the US allies with the Soviet Union,
The United States approach to what was turning into World War II was that there were two major evils, Nazism and Communism. That kind of takes a break because of the exigencies of the war. But as soon as the war is over and the Soviet Union begins to expand, there is a very easy return to anti-Communism. And Nixon, you know, specifically grows up in a home where his father is Very anti-communist.
And he imbibes those politics and brings them with him when he goes to the House.
I don't know if there was one particular relationship, but it is something that he figures out very early on, right? He figures out how to sort of pink scare against his opponent when he's running for office. And there is, I think, a sense that there are opportunities to be made if you join something like the House Un-American Committee.
So I think it's both in his case, both a sincere commitment to anti-communism and an understanding that this small House Committee could actually be a place where where a junior member of Congress could really begin to make his name.
His was actually somebody who was working with the Soviet Union during his time in office. And he had that sort of impeccable pedigree that both made him somebody that Nixon was very eager to take down and also somebody who was able to glide by a lot of suspicion in the 1930s and 1940s.
It's actually Whitaker Chambers, who is somebody who had been a communist and who had worked for the Soviet Union, who outs Alger Hiss and provides evidence to the committee. You know, at the time, there was still some uncertainty and a lot of that was down to Alger Hiss's reputation, his closeness to Franklin Roosevelt.
But in subsequent years, it was revealed that he did have these close ties to the Soviet Union.
Eine faszinierende Persönlichkeit und würde Teil des post-World-War-II-Kold-War-Konservative-Movements werden. Jemand, der sehr nah mit National Review gearbeitet hat und nur ein Charakter. Es gibt eine tolle Biografie von ihm, wenn Leute von Sam Tannenhaus interessiert sind, die sich in all seine kleinen Schwierigkeiten befindet.
Es ist definitiv ein Fall von intensiven Vorstellungen. Das würde natürlich das Cover-Up werden, ein großer Teil von Nixons Geschichte, wenn er Präsident ist. Aber an der Zeit, wie wiederum, ist es das Opportunismus. Es ist, dass man kann, dass man kann, dass man kann, dass man kann, dass man kann. Ich bin zurück mit mehr amerikanischer Geschichte nach diesem kurzen Break.
Vielen Dank.
Absolut. Und wenn Sie den Weg von Nixon nachschauen, wie wir ihn machen werden, werden Sie sehen, wie der Cold War-Konservatismus, der noch in 1952 ein außerirdischer Bewegung war. So viel des Cold War-Konservativen-Bewegungs würde Eisenhower ausdrücken, weil er fühlte, als würde er nicht weit genug gehen.
Aber wenn Sie Nixon im Büro sehen, sehen Sie einen viel stärkeren, viel mehr tiefen, in den Republikanischen Partei-Konservativen-Bewegung. Und Nixon ist dafür verantwortlich. He's chosen in many ways in 1952 because of his red-baiting credentials, because he's seen as somebody who's more to the right than Eisenhower is.
And over the course of his career, he's going to chart a path through a more conservative Republican Party and arguably by the 1970s, a more conservative country.
Sure. So Nixon had this slush fund, had this fund. He's being called to account for it. And it's one of those things that the Eisenhower campaign was sailing along so smoothly. And here comes Nixon mucking things up. And Eisenhower looks around. He's like, I don't need this. I can just replace this guy. And Nixon is aware that he is at real risk of being thrown off this ticket.
And if he's thrown off this ticket, his political career is basically done at that point. Und so macht er etwas sehr Wissenswertes, nämlich er geht um Eisenhower herum und geht direkt an die amerikanischen Leute, um seinen Fall zu machen. Und es ist faszinierend, dass er Fernsehen benutzt. Es ist 1952. Nicht so viele Amerikaner haben Fernsehen an diesem Zeitpunkt. Es wird auch auf Radio gedreht.
Aber es ist ein Set, auf dem er sitzt und seine Frau Pat ist da. Und er sitzt da und er fängt einfach an, seine Finanzen durchzuführen. You can imagine, even today, somebody sitting there going through their finances is a little uncomfortable. In the 1950s, this is not something that you talked about. But he talks about it and he's like, we're not rich. We don't spend a lot of money on things.
Look at my wife, Pat. She doesn't wear a mink coat. She wears a respectable Republican cloth coat. And then he tells this story about the one thing that he did get that he didn't report. Which is that a supporter, while they were traveling on the campaign trail, had given him a little black and white dog. And his daughters had named it Checkers.
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