Viewed through the prism of Nixon's roller-coaster career, the speech resonates today largely because of a single passage: the mention of Nixon's family dog, Checkers. The audience was the largest ever assembled. At stake was Nixon's place as General Dwight Eisenhower's running-mate on the Republican national ticket.
Sunday marks the 60th anniversary of one of the 20th century's most significant public addresses - Richard Nixon's much-praised, oft-scorned " Checkers Speech." Delivered by then-Senator Nixon on the evening of September 23, 1952, in a dramatic attempt to answer charges that he abused a political expense fund, the half-hour address was the first American political speech to be televised live for a national audience and was watched or heard by some 60 million people. process and share your data so that we and third parties may serve you with personalized ads, subject to your choices as described above and in.The first-ever nationally televised address both saved and scarred young Richard Nixon, opening a new communications era and upending conventional political imagery. transfer your data to the United States or other countries and. Even if you choose not to have your activity tracked by third parties for advertising services, you will still see non-personalized ads on our sites and applications.By clicking continue below and using our sites or applications, you agree that we and our third party advertisers can. You can find much more information about your privacy choices in. To avoid personalized advertising based on your mobile app activity, you can install the. Those advertisers use tracking technologies to collect information about your activity on our sites and applications and across the Internet and your other apps and devices.You always have the choice to experience our sites without personalized advertising based on your web browsing activity by visiting the, the, and/or the, from each of your browsers or devices. To bring you the best content on our sites and applications, Meredith partners with third party advertisers to serve digital ads, including personalized digital ads.
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