“I’m not a quitter.”—Nixon in Checkers speech, tonight 1952
“I have never been a quitter.”—Resignation speech, 1974
A year after quitting, Nixon with wet suit trousers and bare feet, San Clemente beach, August 1975: #AP
Barefoot Nixon makes friends on beach, San Clemente, August 1975:
Nixon lands on Nantucket, September 1980. As someone yells, "Where's Checkers?" he replies, “Checkers died in 1964. Cocker spaniels don’t live long, you know.” #Holmes
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Jackie Kennedy watches 1st JFK-Nixon debate at home (with future Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox at left): #Chaplis
JFK, Nixon and moderator Howard K. Smith at first debate, Chicago, tonight 1960:
Year after premiere of “North by Northwest” (1959), which showed Cary Grant at Ambassador East in Chicago, JFK coincidentally stayed at same hotel and studied note cards on its roof to prepare for first TV debate tonight 1960 against Nixon:
President Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock to keep peace as Black students attended high school, sixty-five years ago today:
Nine Black students had been prevented from attending Little Rock Central High School by Arkansas National Guard under Governor Orval Faubus, sixty-five years ago this month: #Miller
“Urgent”--Little Rock Mayor “pleading” with President Eisenhower to send federal troops to help avert violence as Little Rock Central High School is integrated, today 1957: “Situation Is Out Of Control And Police Cannot Disperse The Mob."
Amid charges about personal political fund, Richard Nixon gives live TV speech mentioning "Checkers," dog given to his daughters by a stranger -- seventy years ago tonight. Pat was on camera at his side.
Afterwards Nixon hated it when it became known as "the Checkers speech."
In case you'd like to see a Kinescope of Nixon's Checkers speech of seventy years ago tonight, here it is: