Search This Blog

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Nixon: No illegal campaign contributions, but will keep dog

Here's a YouTube video of one of the earliest speeches on TV: vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech from 1952. Here's a link that explains what it's all about, for those of you who don't remember these things.

This was one of the first times TV was used by a political leader to directly address the country.

No comments: