: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.
:41:03
But it all came to a crashing end
against Kennedy in 1960
:41:06
...and Pat Brown
in California in '62.
:41:09
And thus ends a great
American political story.
:41:12
The truth is, we never knew who
Richard Nixon really was...
:41:16
...and now that he is gone
we never will.
:41:26
Poor little Tricia.
Her daddy couldn't get a job...
:41:31
...in this city
when he got out of Duke.
:41:33
Every white-shoe lawyer firm turned
me down. Didn't have the right look.
:41:36
I couldn't even get into the F.B.I.
Hi! How are ya?
:41:39
Did you catch that picture of you
in the news last week, Dick?
:41:42
You were standin' on Fifth Avenue.
Oh, yeah.
:41:45
You were lookin'
Straight ahead...
:41:47
...and everyone else was lookin' the other
way, like you just farted or somethin'.
:41:50
It said-It said...
:41:52
Who remembers
Dick Nixon?
:41:55
Unbelievable.
I was screamin'.
:41:58
Yeah, that was hilarious,
Martha.