by Richard Nixon Foundation | Sep 23, 2016 | 1952 Campaign, News, The Nixons, Vice President Nixon
September 23 marks the anniversary of one of the most consequential and precedent-setting speeches in U.S. history: Richard Nixon’s much-famed Checkers Speech. Not only did this speech ensure 39 year-old Senator Nixon’s place on the 1952 Republican presidential ticket...
by Jim Byron | Sep 21, 2013 | 1952 Campaign, News, The Nixons, Vice President Nixon
September 23 marks the 61st anniversary of one of the most consequential and precedent-setting speeches in U.S. history: Richard Nixon’s much-famed Checkers Speech. Not only did this speech ensure 39 year-old Senator Nixon’s place on the 1952 Republican presidential...
by Richard Nixon Foundation | Sep 23, 2012 | 1952 Campaign, News
Exclusive to Nixonfoundation.org, Lee Huebner, former Nixon Speechwriter and current George Washington University Professor of Media and Public Affairs, has written an essay about then Senator Richard Nixon’s seminal Checker’s Speech given 60 years ago on...