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 ...

It�s 1952. A young Richard Nixon is campaigning as his party�s candidate for Vice-President, his wife Pat proudly at his side, when an accusation of financial impropriety almost ends his promising ...

David Dubin of Lindenhurst's Studio Theatre says it's a coincidence that he opened "Checkers," the pre-presidential Richard Nixon drama by Douglas McGrath, on June 5. That's the date, 47 years ago, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Sept. 24, 1952, wrapping up the televised speech Richard Nixon gave ahead of the ...

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 ...