In the closing days of the campaign, the long-simmering “softness to Communists” issue finally came to full boil. Two weeks before, the Republicans had opened an all-out attack with a nationwide TV ...

Alger Hiss holds up a photo of then-Rep. Richard Nixon on July 31, 1975, holding up one of the “Pumpkin Papers” film strips Nixon had brought to New York Federal Court on Dec. 13, 1948. (Getty Images) ...

It’s probably a safe bet that there are not many in today’s world beyond historians and political geeks (ahem!) who know about Alger Hiss. For those in that audience, an explanation. In the day (the ...

“Of course I knew Jerry Voorhis wasn’t a communist,” Richard Nixon said. The young congressman was musing over his recent campaign with his defeated opponent’s adviser over lunch in 1947. “But … I had ...