Summary Of Six Crises By Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon the thirty-seventh president of the United States in 1962 published his memoir “Six Crises” narrating his role in six major political stages in his life. Nine years after in May 26, 1971 he sent the “Top secret – eyes only” document to republican lawyer William P. Rogers, who was secretary of state under President Richard M. Nixon and attorney general in the Eisenhower administration. In that “secret document” Richard M. Nixon shares his thoughts about the Mideast conflict between Israel and Egypt. According to his memoirs “Six Crises” it is easy to assume that Richard M. Nixon deeply trusted William P. Rogers, because he accompany and helped Nixon through his main political situations in his career. Mr. Rogers and Mr. Nixon had

Rogers have been involved in a narrow circle of proxies and served in Eisenhower administration a long time before Nixon came to power. Their first spark of trust appeared during the “Hiss Case” that have been described in Nixon memoirs. William P. Rogers had encouraged Richard Nixon to pursue Alger Hiss, a former State Department official who had become president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. When Mr. Nixon was going after suspected Communists in the late 1940's, he seeks for Mr. Rogers’s advice: Should he believe Whittaker Chambers, a former communist and espionage agent, who had accused a State Department official, Alger Hiss, in spying for Moscow during his State Department years and giving secret documents to the Communists? After analyzing what Mr. Chambers had said, William P. Rogers told Richard Nixon that the account was detailed enough to be credible. In 1950, after two years of investigations, charges and denials, Hiss was convicted of perjury and sentenced to prison. The episode was a landmark of the early Cold War years, and it made Nixon's national reputation. Thus Mr. Nixon persisted the committee to consider accusations that Alger Hiss, a high-ranking United States Department of State official, was a communist spy for the Soviet Union, and finally In 1950, after two years of investigations, charges and denials, Hiss was convicted of perjury and sentenced to prison. The “Hiss Case” was one of the most sensational cases of the century in early Cold War years. It made Nixon's national reputation and helped him to be elected to the Senate in