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Mr. Nixon was a persuasive fellow—for the first half hoar. He was a youngish man with a small "bald spot, a faultlessly tailored suit gray shepherd's plaid, light horn-rim eyeglasses, and t genuine gift of gab.
He said that the average working man today earns so little in terms of what inflated dollars will bay that he can afford a new auto every 17 years and a new kitchen stove every 100 years. He and his family barely get enough to eat, Nixon continued.
It was here that Rep. Burr PHarrison (D., Va.) used his Southern accent gently to interrupt him.
"You're a neighbor of mine in Arlington county, Mr. Nixon,” he began. “And are you here representing workers or some foreign powers?”
“The workers, of course,” snap-* ped Mr. Nixon.
‘1 mean are you a member of the Communist Party?” demanded Rep. Harrison. . - . “No sir,” said Mr. Nixon. > ,
“Have you ever been?”
Mr. Nixon refused to answer - that. He said he was talking about taxes; not testifying before the Un-American Activities Committee.
“But your union was excluded from the CIO because it was Com-" munist-dominated,” Rep. Harrison insisted. . ■' ■■ “We’ got out of the CIO,” Mr. Nixon replied.
"*Tf this man is a Communist, I don’t want to bear him,” interjected Rep. Thomas Jenkins (R., 0.).
“Do you work for a Communist” asked Rep. Richard M. Simpson <R., Pa.). “I work for a union,” retorted Mr. Nixon. ’
“Well, would you work for a. union, some of whose officers wave Communists?” Rep. Simpson queried.
Mr. Nixon said that wouldn't • matter to him, if the union, itself, was loyal. .
The chairman, Rep. Robert L. Doughton (D., N.C.) asked if he was through. Mr. Nixon said no, he was not; he had more to say about taxing the people into poverty.
This seemed to be a mistake. Mr. Nixon now talked to congress, men who were paying no attention. Rep. Doughton chatted with his neighbor on the Republican side. The reporters stopped taking notes. And the statement of Mr. Nixon that began so eloquently wound up like a Hollywood face on the cutting room floor.
t Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Taylor and.... their family of Dunn Loring, spent the'week end at “Unger ' Longer” their country home near Sperryville. %
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