The Arrogance of Power (37 page)

10.
Mobster Mickey Cohen
(left).
He met with Nixon and, he claimed, raised money from the criminal fraternity in two election campaigns.

11.
Meyer Lansky
(right)
. “If you were Meyer, who would you invest in? Some politician named Clams Linguini? Or a nice Protestant boy from Whittier, California?”

12.
Alger Hiss. A Communist traitor who committed perjury, or the victim of a frame-up?

13.
After the Pumpkin Papers were produced, Nixon made a dramatic return from a sea cruise. The Hiss case gave him national prominence.

14.
In 1950, on the way to a seat in the U.S. Senate.

15.
Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker, the Park Avenue psychotherapist. Nixon's people obscured the truth about their relationship.

16.
Nixon at ease. Bebe Rebozo's home territory, on Key Biscayne, became the site of the “Florida White House.”

17.
Best friends to the end. Nixon said Rebozo was a man of “great character.”

18.
The Checkers speech, in 1952—a plea to the nation to believe he was innocent of financial wrongdoing.

19.
Nixon weeps on a senior colleague's shoulder on learning that he will remain Eisenhower's running mate.

20.
Nixon with Ike—he became vice president at forty.

21.
A close call in Caracas. Nixon narrowly escaped a leftist mob.

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With Cuban dictator Batista, 1955. “He admires the American way of life.”