Nixon at Barney Greengrass

"While the administration floundered irresolutely, wondering whether

it dared take a larger quota of refugees, Nixon dramatized the problem

by playing Santa to some four hundred children in a refugee camp and

spent an hour and a half at the Andau camp within sight of the Hungarian

secret-police watchtowers. He saw no refugees actually make the crossing,

but as he stood in the pre-dawn darkness looking eastward toward the reedy

marsh over which 145,000 had struggled toward freedom since October 28,

he told a reporter it was "the most thrilling experience of my life."

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