Publishers Weekly: Just Plain Dick: Richard Nixon’s Checkers Speech and the “Rocking, Socking” Election of 1952
Just Plain Dick: Richard Nixon’s Checkers Speech and the “Rocking, Socking” Election of 1952
For students of political history and anyone of a certain age, Richard Nixon's so-called "Checkers speech" has a special place on the continuum of campaign oratory. This was master manipulation in the ...
WSAW: This Day in History: Sept. 23, 1952 - Nixon delivers 'Checkers Speech'
This Day in History: Sept. 23, 1952 - Nixon delivers 'Checkers Speech'
CHICAGO - Lou Carrol, the "man down in Texas" who gave then-vice presidential hopeful Richard Nixon the dog that inspired the famous Checkers Speech, has died. He was 83. Carrol, a resident of the ...
Yahoo: One memorable speech can turn around a faltering campaign − how Nixon did it with his ‘Checkers’ talk
One memorable speech can turn around a faltering campaign − how Nixon did it with his ‘Checkers’ talk
News 6 WKMG: ‘Checkers Speech’ 70 years later: Looking back how Richard Nixon changed politics, arguably saved career
‘Checkers Speech’ 70 years later: Looking back how Richard Nixon changed politics, arguably saved career
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Irwin Gellman discussed the impact of Richard Nixon's Checkers Speech. The Richard Nixon Foundation hosted this event at the Nixon Presidential ...
David Dubin of Lindenhurst's Studio Theatre says it's a coincidence that he opened "Checkers," the pre-presidential Richard Nixon drama by Douglas McGrath, on June 5. That's the date, 47 years ago, ...
Richard Nixon poses with his family and their dog, Checkers, in Washington, D.C., in September 1952. Bettmann/Contributor Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political ...