Sam Tannenhaus

Yeah, Hiss is lying.

We know it now.

We can call him up in front of a committee again and say, did you know Whitaker Chambers?

And he might have to say, well, maybe his memory had slipped, but he'd known him.

So what?

And so there's a great confrontation there.

This is one that brings tears to grown men's eyes.

They have a big public meeting now in the caucus room, House caucus room.

Television cameras there, Steve, 1948.

At that point, 10,000 people in America owned TVs.

Yeah, bars have them.

So they go in there and watch, and there's Hiss again, and he's denying he knows Chambers, and he looks at him.

Chambers is sitting there, and Hiss looks at him with this kind of contempt.

And then they bring chambers up and they said, look what he's saying by you saying that, uh, the insinuations are out there that they're not, they don't say this publicly, what the insinuations are, but the press world knows what they are.

The media establishment, very small in Washington, much smaller town.

Everybody knows the communists and liberals they respect

are saying, well, I knew Chambers at Time Magazine.

The guy's a total paranoia.

My copy would come in from China.

He'd turn it upside down.