Real Richard Nixon: PAT (4) - Bad Guy Image & Checkers Speech

-Clip 4-
The Real Richard Nixon
Vol. 2: "Pat"
Interview with Frank Gannon

In this interview/documentary segment, President Richard Nixon discusses his wife Pat Nixon's reaction to the Checker's Speech that he gave as Dwight Eisenhower's vice presidential running mate during the Fund Crisis in 1952. He also talks about his image as the bad guy of American politics, including the negative political cartoons of Herblock (cartoonist pen name of Herbert Block), and how his portrayal by the press and by Democrats turned Pat Nixon off of politics. The election of 1960 against John F. Kennedy is also covered.

The video clip comes from 38 hours of interviews that Nixon did with Frank Gannon in 1983 during eight days of interviews spread out over several months. Gannon used to work for Nixon and was well acquainted with the former president. Subsequently, Nixon is more at ease and open here than in most of his recorded interviews.

Originally there here had been no clear intention to create a documentary on Pat Nixon when the interviews took place. The segments on Pat came from different days, originally interspersed among a variety of topics.

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[nicky6293]

Nixon was the BEST!!!!!!!

[racer500gp]

What a truly great man he was. He is missed and needed today more than ever.