Sam Tannenhaus
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He's some kind of anti-communist fanatic.
Or he seems to come in at strange hours.
I think he's out drinking all the time.
So they start spreading all these lies about him.
So what about this?
Why are you going after Alger Hiss?
Why have you chosen to persecute this man?
And Chambers then says, what you would expect him to say now is what we hear President Trump and people around say, F-U, right?
But that's not what Chambers does.
Chambers says, in testifying against Mr. Hiss...
People are saying that I'm acting out of some grudge or personal animosity toward him.
He said, I'm not.
I knew Mr. Hiss and I liked him.
I still like him.
But he and I are caught in a tragedy of history.
And so help me, God, I have no choice but to testify now.
And Steve, you know your religious history.
He says, I can't do otherwise.
He's doing Martin Luther, right?
Ich kann nicht anders.