Sam Tannenhaus
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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You have to find it yourself.
Well, what happened was... And we're in 1940... 1948.
1948.
Summer of 1948, there's an election coming.
And the Republicans think they might lose the House in 48.
So here's their chance.
Yeah.
And, you know, the Republicans don't have the strongest candidate in Tom Dewey.
And Truman's actually a good campaigner.
So who knows what's going to happen?
And you have coattails and you're swept out of power.
So Alger Hiss makes his appearance and he's incredibly suave and debonair.
And so there's a key moment.
And New Dealer, right?
You know, he came to the New Deal.
He worked in a lot of the key departments involved, as we said before, in the United Nations founding that.
the Alta conference summit, all this.
Now he comes to the front, very polished, smooth guy.
And he seems kind of amused by it all.
Oh, Mr. Hiss, you know, so Whitaker Chambers is, you know, he's a senior writer at Time Magazine.