Sam Tannenhaus
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I'm not saying I think he was the best president, though I think much of what he did was a lot better than what he gets credit for.
But he's my favorite one.
He's the one I identify with.
I've met a lot of people, a lot of literary people, who tell me their parents liked Nixon.
Often people from other parts of the...
other countries, because they'd say, Nixon was the outsider.
Nixon was the one they never gave a break to.
Nixon's the introvert in the extrovert's profession.
He doesn't have Trump's amazing public skills.
Although, as you know, Nixon liked Trump.
I knew Monica way back when when she was writing those books for Harry Evans.
And so Nixon begins to realize there's something very powerful about Chambers.
Remember, there are a few Quakers in this case, including Nixon and Chambers.
I didn't make that connection.
Yeah.
Wow.
Right?
Wow.
Priscilla Hiss was a Quaker.
Alger Hiss's work.