text: Chambers developed increasing reservations in his later years about the direction the American right was taking , distancing himself first from Joe McCarthy , then from Richard Nixon , and even from William Buckley Jr . ' s National Review . But Chambers ' importance lies , finally , not in his politics but in his romantic penchant for the extremes of the psychic and political undergrounds .
  
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  Chambers developed a closer bond to McCarthy and Nixon , during his later years .