http://thevillager.com/villager_206/atalgerhissconference.html
The above link deals with the case of Alger Hiss: A history thing. The article and the case involves espionage, treason, and homosexuality. In the history of the case various individuals have made a host of conflicting assertions.
White said he found the Hiss case a “tragedy for the nation because you
could believe Hiss was
guilty without having to support McCarthyism.”
A professor of the Virginia Law School, G. Edward White, quoted in the article, makes the above assertion. I find the assertion tragic. The question of Hiss's guilt does not concern me. The fact that the people of our country could produce a mad man like Joe Mc Carthy strikes me as tragic. Their willingness to swallow the poison that oozed from the sup·pu·rating wound that we call Richard Nixon meets and exceeds any definition of tragic. His election twice to the office of president: Tragic.
But to continue electing the same crowd of war crazed monsters in the form of Ronald Ray-Gun, George H. W. Bush ( 41 ), and George W. ( can't run a baseball team so I'll run the country ) Bush ( 43 ) goes beyond tragedy. It speaks to our decline in integrity.
