American Decades
"The Checkers Speech"
Speech
By: Richard Nixon
Date: September 23, 1952
Source: Nixon, Richard. "Richard Nixon Defending His Record, Promises To Drive 'The Crooks and the Communists' Out of Washington, Los Angeles, CA, September 23, 1952." Available online at http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/r_nixon_s.html; website home page: http://www.pbs.org (accessed June 18, 2003).
About the Author: Richard Nixon (1911–1994) graduated from Duke Law School in 1934. After serving in the navy during World War II (1939–1945), he pursued a career in politics. Serving as a U.S. representative and then a U.S. senator, he eventually became the vice president under President Dwight Eisenhower (served 1953–1961). He then was elected president in 1968. Nixon will probably be best remembered for the...
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1950's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia
- Presidential Reactions to Joseph McCarthy
- NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security
- The Korean War
- Statement Upon Sentencing the Rosenbergs
- "'Old Soldiers Never Die'
- Agreements Between the United States and Japan
- "The Checkers Speech"
- Television Campaign Commercials
- "The Row of Dominoes"
- Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem
- Speech by Dwight Eisenhower to the U.S. Congress, February 22, 1955
- African American and Women Voters in the 1950s
- The Little Rock Crisis
- Creation of NASA
- "The Kitchen Debate"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
The 1950's: Primary Sources
