Witness and Friend: Remembering Whittaker Chambers on the centennial of his birth.(July 9, 2001 speech by William F. Buckley, Jr., presidential ceremony)(Transcript)
From: National Review
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Date: 8/6/2001
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 ...
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