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YouTube: The Political Career of Richard NixonThis forum post is dated 07/12/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. Maryland - Communist Party
| YouTube: The Political Career of Richard Nixon Film footage courtesy of Turin Film Corp.: www.youtube.com Due to his anti-communist stance, the 39-year-old Nixon was selected by Republican party nominee General Dwight D. Eisenhower to be the Vice Presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention in July 1952. In September, the New York Post published an article claiming that campaign donors were buying influence with Nixon by providing him with a secret cash fund for his personal expenses. Nixon responded by saying that the fund was not secret, and the campaign commissioned an independent review which showed that it was used only for political purposes. Republicans, including those within Eisenhower's campaign, pressured Eisenhower to remove Nixon from the ticket, but Eisenhower realized he was unlikely to win without Nixon. Nixon appeared on television on September 23, 1952, to defend himself. He mentioned the independent third-party review of the fund's accounting, along with a summary of his personal finances. The speech became better known for its rhetoric, such as when he stated his wife Pat did not wear mink, but "a respectable Republican cloth coat, " and that, although he had been given an American Cocker Spaniel named Checkers in addition to his other campaign contributions, he was not going to give the dog back because his daughters loved it. This speech became known as the "Checkers speech." It resulted in much support from the Republican party base and from the general public, and helped keep him <b>...</b> |
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