Post Tagged with: "Richard Nixon"

As reporters, analysts, and scholars continue to debate the underlying logics of this current U.S. presidential elections, historical comparisons have taken center stage. Most recently, Republican nominee Donald Trump claimed that he was inspired by Richard Nixon’s 1968 Republican National Convention (RNC) acceptance speech. The claim echoed a number of […]

By Corinne Colbert  In his famous “Checkers” speech, Richard Nixon—then a senator from California and Dwight Eisenhower’s troubled running mate in the 1952 presidential election—downplayed his connection to a cabal of extremely wealthy donors. He portrayed himself as a middle-class guy whose wife wore “a respectable Republican cloth coat” and […]