. >> liberal intellectuals,no, but adlai stevenson comes in later in the story. but adlai stevenson was the kind of person, one of the campaign arguments against him, not made by eisenhower by the way, he was not appraised anti-communist crusader at all, but one of the arguments made against stevenson by the right in 1952 was that he had been insufficiently condemnatory of alger hiss. >> now to whitaker chambers to see what looks like and sounds like from the same era. >> i was very fond of alger hiss. >> very fond of temple >> indeed i was. he was perhaps my closest friend. certainly the closest friend i ever had in the communist party. i don't hate mr. hiss. we were close friends. caught in the tragedy of history. mr. mihiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting and i am fighting. i testified against him with remorse and pity. >> the logo in the corner for american writers was eight years ago is that is why it's there. but go ahead. >> that clip says it all. chambers looks overwrought, almost undone, sounds overwrought almost undone.

. >> the adlai stevenson. >> liberal intellect chals? -- a liberal intellectuals? no. but adlai stevenson comes in later in the story but he was the kind of person who was one of the campaign arguments against him, not made by eisenhower, by the way, who was not a crazed anti-communist crusader at all, but one argument made against stevenson by the right in 1952 was that he'd been insufficiently condemn in aer to of hiss. -- insufficiently condemnatory of hiss. >> let's go to whitaker chamber, so we can see what he looks like and sounds like. it's from the same hearing. >> i was very fond of mr. hiss. >> you were fond of him? >> indeed, i was. he was perhaps my closest friends. mr. hiss. certainly the closest friends i had in the communist party. i don't hate mr. hiss. we were close friends. but we are caught in a tragedy of history. mr. hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting and i am fighting. i've testified against him with remorse and pity. >> by the way that logo in the corner from "american writers," that's a program we did eight yea

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that was 1952 when the republicans nominated dwight eisenhower and democrats adlai stevenson. they called him anchorman and that stuck ever since. we were extraordinarily fortunate that he was the first. he was the paradigm, he was the example th has come down through the years for all of us. because he had such solid training. he was trained in the wire service way of reporting, the basic, you know who, what, why, where, when. he came along when there was not the flash and dash there is in television now. it was basically walter sitting behind a desk. and he just did it right. his compass was absolutely on point and he understood that it was about the news. it wasn't about him, although people cale to trust him. it was about the news and that is something i think that all of us keep in the back of our minds all the i'm. >> well, he was known as so objective but there was that moment that we just showed a moment ago, in 1968 when he came out and basically said he was against the vietnam war. was that a turning point at all? >> well, it was something of a big deal when he added