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	Checkers speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "Checkers speech" was given by Richard Nixon on September 23, 1952, when he was the Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency.
		The speech is nevertheless often the subject of ridicule.
		Checkers' gravesite is at the Bide-a-Wee Pet Cemetery, on Beltagh Ave, Wantagh, New York, across the street from Wantagh High School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Checkers_speech (594 words)

	Checkers - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Checkers, family of games played by two people on a checkered board.
		In checkers, as it is known in the United States (or draughts, as it is known...
		Spelling Checker, in computer science, an application program that employs a disk-based dictionary to check for misspellings in documents.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Checkers.html (109 words)

	Podcast.net - The Podcast Directory
		Speech requesting the declaration of War with Japan, Dec 8, 1941.
		Senator Richard Nixon's "Checkers" Speech from Spetember 23, 1952.
		Senator Richard Nixon's âCheckersâ Speech from September 23, 1952.
	www.podcast.net /show/83061 (377 words)

	Famous Speeches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Critics Corner features Richard Nixon's Checkers' Speech, as well as background information, and links within the speech to explain the context of specific words or terms used in the speech.
		If you watch excerpts of Presidential speeches on tape, you should have students try Could You Be A Politician, where they get a chance to read from a mock teleprompter while looking honest, sincere, and trustworthy.
		Women's Speeches from Around the World- is dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches made by influential contemporary women.
	mcreynoldsms.org /speech.htm (188 words)

	TV ACRES: Dogs - Cocker Spaniels - Checkers (Richard Nixon)
		Of course, the well planned speech aimed at the heartstrings of American animal lovers, helped clear Nixon of all charges.
		Checkers (1952-1964) is buried in plot No. 5 at the Bide-A-Wee Pet Cemetery Memorial Park in Wantagh, New York on Long Island.
		It was a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate that he had sent all the way from Texas.
	www.tvacres.com /dogs_cocker_checkers.htm (265 words)

	News 8 Austin \| 24 Hour Local News \| TOP STORIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was a salesman for board-game maker Milton Bradley in Texas in 1952 when he heard that Nixon, who was then a California senator, was looking for a dog for his two daughters.
		He sent Checkers, the spotted cocker spaniel puppy, to Nixon on a whim, he said.
		The speech about his integrity stopped President Dwight D. Eisenhower from bumping Nixon from the Republican ticket as his running mate.
	www.news8austin.com /content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=162161 (175 words)

	PetPlace.com - Article: Famous Dogs in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But the famous speech will forever be known as the “Checkers speech,” the name of the fl and white, spotted cocker spaniel his daughter owned.
		Checkers was one of those donations, Nixon said.
		Though the speech was noted at the time for Roosevelt's own mud-slinging (he compared the tactics of his opponents to those of Hitler's), that part was soon forgotten.
	www.petplace.com /articles/artPrinterFriendly.asp?conID=22461 (1153 words)

	A Different Drummer: Nicholas Stix
		While growing up during the 1960s and 1970s, I was led to believe by establishment media and scholars, that Nixon's "Checkers" speech was a pathetic exercise in evading the central question of Nixon's honesty that, if anything, proved that Nixon was a crook.
		The Checkers speech was the most successful speech ever given by an American politician, in terms of the obstacles it had to overcome.
		With "Checkers," Nixon said, 'I'm one of you, a hard-working, devoted husband and family man, and I'm not a crook, though my opponents may themselves be crooks.' And amazingly, in view of the official Nixon story, and the endlessly caricatured, older, paranoid, President Nixon, millions of Americans liked the man they saw:
	www.geocities.com /nstix/conditii.html (2898 words)

	2005 Conference Proceedings
		Though spell checkers have been found to aid students in the correction of their spelling errors, research has also documented the limitations of spell checkers in both their ability to identify misspellings and to suggest correct spellings (MacArthur, 1996, 1999, 2000; MacArthur et al., 1996).
		Though spell checkers have limitations in their use for students with learning disabilities they can be taught strategies to overcome those limitations (MacArthur, 1999a.
		Students receiving speech feedback, under either condition, were more accurate on measures of word recognition than students in the control group receiving no feedback.
	www.csun.edu /cod/conf/2005/proceedings/2131.htm (2744 words)

	TIME.com: Why The Speech Will Live In Infamy -- Aug. 31, 1998 -- Page 1
		The Checkers speech was a defiant and manipulative statement that saved a career.
		The speech did not elicit sympathy because he was not tough on himself.
		There was no trust in his speech, no sense that he knew he could trust the compassion of the people he leads.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,988990,00.html (819 words)

	Nixon's Checkers Speech - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
		Nixon's Checkers Speech - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
		Under attack for having used a secret campaign fund for his personal expenses, Richard M. Nixon, then a California senator and vice presidential candidate, made this famous speech on national television.
		The speech has come to be named the Checkers Speech, because of a reference to the Nixon family's dog, Checkers.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /sidebar_761594748/Nixon's_Checkers_Speech.html (86 words)

	Checkers Biography (Dog) — Infoplease.com
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	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/checkers.html (193 words)

	Writing 125: Nixon's Famous Speeches
		In a bid to destroy rumors of corruption and win the votes of Americans at the beginning of his political career, Senator Nixon gave the Checkers Speech in 1952 (The Speeches of Richard M. Nixon).
		Although many flaws in the speech are obvious to a modern viewer, this effective combination of rhetorical and television devices eventually swayed the Republican Party to keep Nixon on the ticket with his presidential running mate, Dwight Eisenhower.
		As he had done in the Checkers Speech, Nixon uses emotional and patriotic appeals to gain the audience’s sympathy in the Resignation Speech (American Presidents: Life Portraits).
	www.wellesley.edu /Writing/Nixon/nixon_speeches.html (407 words)

	Will Clinton's Speech Do for Him What Checkers Did for Nixon?
		Nixon's appearance was a defining moment not just in that presidential campaign, but also in the use of a televised speech as a political life preserver.
		And despite similarities, the distance between the Checkers and the Clinton speeches may be even more revealing, suggesting how drastically the political and television landscape has changed.
		But the true importance of the Checkers speech existed in the way it shifted Nixon's image: from on-the-ropes politician to family man and political survivor.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/politics/081898clinton-nixon.html (1012 words)

	Presidency Videos - Truman to Clinton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Next is the most important speech Kennedy ever gave, at least in the judgment of his brother and campaign manager, Robert: the Houston Ministers Speech which dealt with the religious issue.
		You'll note in the last speech he is showing his age, but though he falters at the start, he picks up steam and shortly has the crowd in the palm of his hand.
		Though he could give a pretty good speech when he had to, he did not place much stock in the rhetorical dimensions of the office, unlike, say, Gerald Ford who was never a highly effective speaker but who accepted the notion that the chief executive has a rhetorical function.
	ustudies.semo.edu /ui320-75/course/videos.asp (2478 words)

	ABC News: Obituaries in the News
		Checkers was central to a speech that Nixon, then a candidate for vice president, made in 1952.
		In the speech, Nixon denied wrongfully accepting money from supporters, but admitted that he accepted one gift "a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate," sent from Texas.
		The speech helped generate sympathy for Nixon and convinced President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was about to bump Nixon from the Republican ticket, to keep him on.
	abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=1966560 (472 words)

	Richard Nixon Checkers Speech
		Nixon, however, in a brilliant political maneuverer, took his case directly to the American people via the new medium of television in a nationwide hookup.
		Although it would forever be known as Nixon's "Checkers Speech," it was actually a political triumph for Nixon at the time it was given.
		Eisenhower requested Nixon to come to West Virginia where he was campaigning and greeted Nixon at the airport with, "Dick, you're my boy." The Republicans went on to win the election by a landslide.
	www.historyplace.com /speeches/nixon-checkers.htm (3923 words)

	Speeches of Richard Nixon
		See Speeches By And About Richard Nixon and American Experience The Presidents Richard M. Nixon PBS for these, including the Vietnamization/'Silent Majority' speech of 3 November 1969 and "Peace with Honor" in 1973.
		The 1974 resignation speech is at the History Channel.
		Speech Writing: Speech Writing in the Nixon and Ford White Houses from Craig R. Smith covers the several important speech writers who crafted Nixon speeches.
	cstl-cla.semo.edu /Renka/Modern_Presidents/nixon_speeches.htm (3364 words)

	Entertainment Weekly \| The 100 Greatest Moments in Television \| 1950s, p. 2
		During the 1952 presidential race, the scandal-plagued VP nominee went on air to deny allegations that he misused political contributions from wealthy California execs.
		After an exhaustive defense of his financial dealings, Nixon did admit to accepting one personal donation, for his children, a cocker spaniel named Checkers -- a gift he insisted he had no intention of returning.
		With its mixture of defiance and humility, the broadcast reduced viewers to tears and arguably salvaged Nixon's political career.
	www.ew.com /ew/fab400/tv100/50s_p2.html (375 words)

	Watergate.com's Nixon Era Times: The Official Publication of the Nixon Era Center at Mountain State University
		With the Republican campaign in trouble and the eventual likelihood that presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower would drop Nixon as his running mate, Senator Nixon appealed to 60 million members of the American public on September 23, 1952.
		During the televised speech, Nixon explained his financial condition, his personal history and explained that his wife Pat did not have a mink coat, but rather a respectable Republican cloth coat.
		Entertainment Weekly ranks the "Checkers Speech," as 29 in the top 100 moments of television history.
	www.watergate.com /stories/checkers.asp (141 words)

	watergate.info - The Scandal That Destroyed President Richard Nixon (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		By 1952, Nixon had been chosen as Dwight Eisenhower's vice-presidential running mate, but not before he was embroiled in a scandal that led to the infamous Checkers Speech.
		Later that year, he delivered his 'Silent Majority' speech on the Vietnam War, articulating his belief that the bulk of the American people supported his policies and programs.
		Perhaps the politically most difficult speech was the one on April 29, 1974, in which Nixon released partial transcripts of the White House tapes.
	www.watergate.info.cob-web.org:8888 (938 words)

	Context Preview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The day after the speech, Eisenhower announced that his admiration for Nixon remained great and he was determined to retain the Senator as his Vice Presidential running mate.
		The Eisenhower-Nixon ticket went on to defeat the Democratic candidates, Adlai Stevenson and John Sparkman, with 34 million popular votes to the Democrat's 27.3 million; the vote in the Electoral College was 442 to 89.
		As you read Nixon's speech, pay close attention to his argument and to the structure of the speech.
	www.com.washington.edu /Program/courses/s04/com436/nixon_checkers.html (809 words)

	Fifties Web Pop History - Richard Nixon's Checkers speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nixon claimed the fund was used for normal politcal expenses, and Eisenhower stood by him.
		The only political "gift" he received was this cocker spaniel, Checkers.
		Thus the nationally televised address in which Nixon proclaimed his innocence was dubbed the "Checkers" speech.
	www.fiftiesweb.com /pop/nixon.htm (166 words)

	The University of Memphis: University Libraries - Uncle Sam - Historically Speaking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A little dog named Checkers; a day that will live in infamy; give me liberty or give me death; are just a few of the familiar phases from famous political speeches.
		Inaugural Speeches of U.S. Presidents from Re: Quest dot Net.
		Samples of an extensive collection of speeches, performances and interviews.
	exlibris.memphis.edu /resource/unclesam/speech.html (236 words)

	nixoncheckersspeech
		Do you think, for example, when I or any other Senator makes a trip to his home state to make a purely political speech that the cost of that trip should be charged to the taxpayers?
		It was a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate that he'd sent all the way from Texas.
		And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep it.
	englishscholar.com /nixoncheckers.htm (3782 words)

	Checkers by Richard M. Nixon on MP3 Digital Download - Free Audio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Checkers by Richard M. Nixon on MP3 Digital Download - Free Audio
		Now, the usual political thing to do when charges are made against you is to either ignore them or to deny them without giving details.
		Say what you will about Watergate, but Nixon had some great speeches.
	www.learnoutloud.com /Free-Audio-Video/History/Speeches/Checkers/7315 (240 words)

	LINGUIST List 2.779: Grammar Checkers
		One major difference is how many truly syntactic errors they can catch and correct (which requires a sophisticatd parser) and how much they focus on "style" (which is usually little more than a list of cliches and easy to implement).
		In my view, a product that is predominatly a "style" checker can be rather annoying since it tends to send inappropriate messages.
		And third: A Grammar checker should have, as its first routine, a very good spelling checker.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/2/2-779.html (638 words)

	Quote DB :: Speeches :: Richard Nixon :: Checkers Speech
		Quote DB :: Speeches :: Richard Nixon :: Checkers Speech
		Quote DB :: Speeches :: Richard Nixon :: Checkers
		I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as a man whose honesty and integrity has been questioned.
	www.quotedb.com /speeches/nixon-checkers (3753 words)

	Richard Nixon's Checkers Speech [September 23, 1952]
		I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as a man whose honesty and integrity have been questioned.
		One other thing I probably should tell you because if we don't they'll probably be saying this about me too, we did get something-a gift-after the election.
		And remember, folks, Eisenhower is a great man. Believe me. He's a great man. And a vote for Eisenhower is a vote for what's good for America.
	www.watergate.info /nixon/checkers-speech.shtml (3804 words)

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