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Witness and Friend: Remembering Whittaker Chambers on the centennial of his birth.(July 9, 2001 speech by William F. Buckley, Jr., presidential ceremony)(Transcript)
Editor's Note: The White House convened a full house (140 guests) at the Executive Office Building on July 9, to recall Whittaker Chambers. Chambers's son was present and brought in to display the Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Chambers by President Reagan in 1984. Also displayed, borrowed from the Library of Congress, was a copy of a "pumpkin paper" on which the case against Alger Hiss turned. A bizarre feature of the memorial event was that the White House excluded the press, so that the event had an aspect of a memorial ceremony in the catacombs. The speakers were introduced by presidential assistant Tim Goeglein. They were William F. Buckley Jr., Sam ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post December 11, 1996 700+ words
...central to the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers controversy and misrepresents...Barnes fails to mention that Whittaker Chambers was the only person ever to...If you don't believe Whittaker Chambers, then we {the government...
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- Magazine article from: National Review Bath, Oliver May 4, 1984 700+ words
...presumptuous. "One thinks of Whittaker Chambers," he said in the genle tone...the meaning of Communism after Whittaker Chambers." He introduced Tony Dolan...Dolan spoke of pulling Chamber's autobiography off a library...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post May 22, 1988 700+ words
...American Activities Committee, Whittaker Chambers, a self-proclaimed former...rekindle the fire when he declared Whittaker Chambers "a historical figure of transcendent...Hiss/Chambers case, not Whittaker Chambers the man, nor his farm, that...
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- Magazine article from: The Nation Wiener, Jon November 18, 1996 700+ words
...the least popular seems to be Whittaker Chambers Pumpkin Patch National Historical...landmark (officially called Whittaker Chambers Farm) in 1988 over the unanimous...the spot where, in 1948, Whittaker Chambers reached into a hollowed-out...
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- Magazine article from: National Review March 23, 1984 700+ words
...Day? THEY NEVER give up. Whittaker Chambers blew the whistle on them a...the Medal of Freedom . . . to Whittaker Chambers, the professed Soviet agent...civilian honor, to the late Whittaker Chambers, the turncoat Communist whose...