Irv Gellman on Vice President Nixon and the Hungarian Refugee Crisis

On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we’re talking the Hungarian Revolution and Refugee crisis of 1956, then Vice President Nixon’s visit to the Austro-Hungarian border that December, and his work on the Federal response to the crisis. Our guest again is Irwin Gellman. He’s a historian, and the author of two major Nixon biographies, “The Contender: Richard Nixon, The Congress Years, 1946-1952,” and the President and the Apprentice: Nixon and Eisenhower, 1952-1961.” Interview by Jonathan Movroydis. Photo: Portrait of Frederic Daday's "Nixon at Andau" depicting then Vice President Nixon's visit to the Austro-Hungarian border in December 1957. (Richard Nixon Foundation)