Sam Tannenhaus

Hiss in what's now the Grand Hyatt, the first Trump hotel.

Back in those days, it was a hotel Commodore.

And they call Hiss and Chambers in for meetings.

Again, off the record now.

Executive session.

Yeah.

And, you know, the story goes, and other HUAC guys said this later, Nixon was the only one who really nailed the communists, who really got the guy.

You should see the letter Nixon wrote me by hand before my book came out, the Chambers book, back in the 90s when I was writing first op-ed pieces.

I did one in The Times, which Nixon didn't read, but he did read the one in The Wall Street Journal.

And he wrote me a letter by hand.

Who is the guy, I'm drawing a blank, who wrote that great recent biography of Nixon?

Ferling?

No, the guy who also did, he's a friend of mine.

I'm feeling embarrassed about this.

It's a senior thing.

He wrote a biography about Tip O'Neill, Jack Farrell, John Farrell.

Yeah, Jack Farrell.

He quotes that letter.

Yeah, really good biography.

And he quotes the letter that Nixon wrote to me because I put it in the Hoover Archive back when archives were interested in my stuff and they're not anymore.