Typed letter, signed Dick Nixon . 5 x7 on U.S. Senate stationery, dated October 9 1952. ##### Responding to a burgeoning scandal about his personal finances, 1952 vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon went on national television to deliver his Checkers speech, one of the most famous speeches in American political history. Nixon s innovative use of television to make an emotional defense of his personal integrity, complete with maudlin references to his wife s respectable Republican cloth coat and his childrens cocker spaniel Checkers literally saved his career overnight. ##### Wit... View More...
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