Ohio University professor Mattson (When America Was Great) looks back at Nixon as a whistle-stop “political salesman” in this panoramic exploration of egghead politics, Hollywood films, television ...
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 ...
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Sean Munger on MSNOpinion
Richard Nixon’s rise and paranoia, from a modest California childhood to the mindset that enabled Watergate
From Yorba Linda to the White House, this chapter traces how Nixon’s insecurity, ambition, and Cold War worldview hardened into a politics of suspicion. It follows the pivotal moments, from the ...
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 ...
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