Sam Tannenhaus

He sees that Nixon means business here.

And he says, are you really investigating this case?

He says, what if Chambers is telling the truth?

Let's just make this weird assumption that a guy who's throwing up, throwing away a high-paying job, a senior executive at Time magazine might not make this stuff up unless he's got a good reason for it.

And that reason is he's not making it up.

He's telling the truth.

So I said, well, have you really looked at this?

Have you seen whether the things Chambers said about him make sense?

So they go out and they interview Chambers.

And they say, well, Hiss says you don't know him.

They go out to Chambers' farm in Maryland, right?

He has his little farm.

He and his wife are there, back-to-the-earth types, like old ex-socialists, right?

Only Chambers really does it.

He doesn't just talk about it.

He actually works on a farm with his kids and his wife, milks the cows himself and all this.

Because now he's a Quaker.

He's a Quaker.

He's a believing Quaker.

And he's doing that when he's not going into Time magazine.