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Aha! thought Chatterbox--whoever wrote them was so worried about keeping them secret that he or she pecked them out by hand--perhaps on a replica of Alger Hiss' old Woodstock!
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Lake has two problems: 1) his (inadvertent, he says) failure to sell some energy stocks in 1993, when he became national security adviser; and 2) Republican alarm that he might be a dangerous lefty, based on his 1970 resignation from the National Security Council over Nixon's invasion of Cambodia, and on his more recent refusal to confirm that Alger Hiss was a staff Soviet spy.
That Nixon himself isn't entirely convinced is suggested by the fact that Nixon makes the point over and over, even dragging in Chambers and all but saying the man was a fool to turn in Alger Hiss.
His tale is said to transcend the simplistic views of the mogul as either Horatio Alger success story or venal monopolist.