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Nixon's "Checkers Speech" - Part 1 of 2

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Part one of Nixon's famous "Checkers Speech", delivered to a national television audience on September 23, 1952.

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  • Nixon: I'd no sooner give you this body than I would my cocker spaniel dog, Checkers

    Checkers: "Bark!"

    Nixon: "SHUT UP, DAMNIT!!!"

  • go dick!!!!!!!!!!kill the commies

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  • What a scumbag

  • And then Watergate. Tell the truth, my ass.

  • Arlene Lorenzo: [Stunned silence] Actually it was just about the dog.

    Betsy Jobs: Are you the President's dog trainer?

    John Dean: I'm John Dean, Chief White House Council.

    Betsy Jobs: Oh. That's too bad.

    Betsy Jobs: You act like you like him. But we don't think you do.

    Dick: What dog?

    Betsy Jobs: You kicked Checkers, you're prejudiced and you have a potty mouth.

    Dick: Pat, will ya stop snoring, goddamn it! My head is about to explode!

  • so bizzarre. click my username to see more in the same vein.

  • later Johnson scratched out -- work -- on his 1950s bill and it became law in 60s. Immigrant legal ? civil rights ? Woman's rights ?aid for India ?

    Sounds like Bill Clinton !

  • arooooooooooooooo

  • It was said that Pat Nixon felt humiliated as she sat there, knowing that her husband's true love was not her, but the world of politics.

  • lol @ this guy !

  • @TheForceIsMyAlly this, Nixon was a great leader. But he was attacked. I like this man. I would attack him to the end of the earth. I think he would defend himself to the ends of the earth.

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