:39:01
After two trials, Hiss was convicted
not of spying but of per jury.
:39:05
To some, Nixon was a hero
and a patriot.
:39:07
But to many, he was
a shameless self-promoter.
:39:10
Eleanor Roosevelt
angrily condemned him.
:39:12
Nixon continued to tear into Truman,
Acheson and the Democratic party...
:39:16
...for losing mainland China
in 1949
:39:19
...and blamed the Korean War
on a weak foreign policy.
:39:22
I promise to expose and
to continue to expose...
:39:25
...the people that have sold
this country down the river!
:39:27
His speeches, if more subtle than those
of his Republican all Joe McCarthy...
:39:32
...were just as aggressive.
:39:35
The direct result of Truman's decision
is that China has gone Communist!
:39:39
Mao is a monster!
Why?
:39:42
Who in the State Department
is watching over American interests?
:39:45
Who has given the Russians
the atomic bomb?
:39:48
The Soviet Union is an example of
a slave state in the ultimate development.
:39:53
Driven by demons that seemed
more personal than political...
:39:56
Nixon became Eisenhower's
vice presidential candidate in 1952.
:40:01
Then came the Checkers crisis. Nixon was
accused of hiding a secret slush fund.
:40:06
About to be kicked off the ticket by Ike,
he went live on national television...
:40:09
...in an unprecedented
appearance.
:40:11
I'm going to give to this television
audience a complete financial history.
:40:15
Everything I've earned, spent,
The list included their house...
:40:18
...their Oldsmobile, Pat's cloth coat.
everything I own.
:40:21
And lastly, in what was
to become history...
:40:24
...a sentimental gift
from a Texas businessman.
:40:26
You know what it was?
It was a little cocker spaniel dog...
:40:29
...in a crate that he'd sent all the way
from Texas...black and white, spotted.
:40:32
And our little girl Tricia,
the six-year-old, named it Checkers.
:40:37
58 million people saw it.
And like all kids, they love the dog.
:40:41
It was shameless it was manipulative
I just wanna say right now...
:40:44
...regardless of what they say about him,
we're gonna keep him.
:40:47
It was a huge success.
:40:49
He stayed on the national scene...
:40:52
...serving two terms as vice president
under Eisenhower.
:40:55
Against Khrushchev
at the Kitchen Debate in Moscow...
:40:57
...and stoned by Latin mobs
in Venezuela...
:40:59
Nixon once again became
a national hero.