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23 Cards in this Set
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John Foster Dulles
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-Eisenhower’s Secretary of State (1953-1959)
-Worked closely with VP Nixon -Worked largely with NATO countries to try and defeat Communism |
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George Crosley
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-The pseudo name used by Whittaker Chambers
-Alger Hiss had always said he did not know a man by the name of Chambers -This convinced Nixon that he was correct |
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Wallace Newman
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-Nixon’s Football Coach at Whittier College who taught him a lot about competition
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Ola Florence Welch
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-Nixon’s first crush during his years at Duke
-Met while acting in a play in high school and dated for six years |
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Thomas E. Dewey
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-Governor of NY who was a major supporter of Nixon as Veep
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Dana Smith
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-Friend of Richard Nixon who helped him fundraise
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Dean Acheson
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-SOS under Truman (1949-1953)
-Nixon believed he was covering for communists at the DOS |
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Herter Committee
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-Foreign policy committee that Nixon first served on
-Gave him the opportunity to travel extensively and formulate his worldview -Ideas lead to the Marshall Plan and Truman Docterine |
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Paul Smith
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-Richard Nixon's professor of history at Whittier College
-Nixon points out as having a significant effect on his life |
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Joseph Martin
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-Speaker of the House who gave Nixon many of his plum committee assignments
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Whittaker Chambers
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-Member of the Communist Party
-Gave testimony during the Hiss Case that lead to Alger Hiss’s conviction on perjury |
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HUAC
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-The House Un-American Committee
-Richard Nixon was asked to serve on because he would smarten it up -Politically dangerous move -Nixon did not want to take action on an “anyone and everyone” policy like McCarthy -Nixon Stayed away from accusing those in Hollywood -Ultimately payed off by taking the lead in the Hiss Case |
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The Prothonotary Warbler
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-In his testimony, chambers said Hiss was a bear watcher and knew about this bird
-Hiss confirmed that he had indeed seen this bird along the Potomac and proved that the two men knew each other |
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The Pink Sheet
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-Nixon used this line in his senate campaign against Helen Douglas
-Instead of her having a “red sheet” like the men he said that her record was like a “pink sheet” |
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Green Island
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-Military base off of Papua New Guinea where Richard Nixon was stationed during his time in the navy
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The Pumpkin Papers
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-Documents of secret DOS cables that were had written by Hiss
-Found because Chambers had taken photos of the 10 year old documents and hid them in pumpkins in his yard -Took investigators out to the patch to show them |
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Joseph McCarthy
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-Senator from Wisconsin
-Led the hunt for communists in the government that Nixon followed -Said he had a list of people working in government that were Communist -Ended up being censured |
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Tom Wicker
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-Reporter who was on Nixon’s enemies list
-Worked for the New York Times |
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Jerry Voorhees
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-Democratic congressman who Nixon ran against and beat when nobody thought he could in 1946
- Was on the HUAC and people respected his anti-Soviet credentials - Nixon somehow managed to paint Vorhees as an unpatriotic American - Shows Nixon’s brutal campaigning techniques |
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Murray Chotiner
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-Nixon’s closest political advisor throughout his carrer
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Thelma Catherine Ryan
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-Richard Nixon’s wife Pat
-Asked to marry her the first night |
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“The New Look”
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-Headed by secretary of state John Foster Dulles
-Believed that we not only needed to contain Communism, but we had to roll it back -Build up nuclear arsenal by multiples -Opened up a dialogue with Stalin’s predecessor, Nikita Khrushchev |
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A “Red Herring,”
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- A Red Herring is a logical fallacy (an argument that does not hold up). It is when someone twists he facts around to divert the attention away from one topic to another. Though all the facts may be true, the attention is directed to an argument that the arguer is improbable to lose.
- I am guessing that Nixon used this when campaigning at one point to make someone look unpatriotic or like a communist. |
