Nixon’s formula for destroying an innocent man: ‘I had to leak stuff’

THOUGH he had never met him, Richard Nixon hated Alger Hiss. Nixon was a young Congressman who had struggled against poverty all his life.

From a poor background and with a law degree from an unknown university, Nixon had pulled himself up by his bootstraps.

He was elected to Congress for the Republican Party just after World War II, when the Democrat Harry Truman was president, and it was said even then that the campaign Nixon ran in California against his Democratic opponent was one of the dirtiest ever seen.