Sam Tannenhaus

And he has a great word.

He says, there's something mouthy about Hiss.

He says, he's talking too much.

right?

There's this thing where somebody asks you the question, give them the answer.

Don't make the joke about the chairman of the committee.

And something sticks in Nixon's head.

Also, he is talking to Robert Stripling, the very smart investigator who's been interviewing these communists for years.

And he says to Nixon,

He's saying he doesn't know a guy by the name of Whitaker Chambers.

Chambers isn't going to call himself by his real name when he's an underground agent.

He's going to go by an alias, right?

So maybe if we look closely at his transcript, he's not answering the questions.

He's evading them.

So then...

a journalist, a guy named Burt Andrews, a very smart journalist for the Herald Tribune in New York.

The Herald Tribune was the Republican establishment's New York Times.

It was like Time Magazine.

But they had a smart journalist there named Burt Andrews who'd been covering these investigations.

And he calls Nixon aside.