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What Happened to Whittaker Chambers?
Chambers lost his job; his publisher at Time thought he was too controversial to be associated with the maga2ine. He went back to his farm in Maryland and worked on his autobiography, Witness. It became a best-seller when it was published in 1952. Shortly after publication, he suffered his third heart attack. In 1957 he got a job on the National Review, an anticom-munist, conservative political magazine. His health continued to deteriorate, and in 1958 he had another heart attack. Two years later he resigned from the National Review. On July 9, 1961, he suffered another heart attack and died. Posthumously Chambers received the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan. His farm was designated a National Historic Landmark.
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