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The Power Of Words - President Richard Nixon - Checkers Speech (With Dr. Robert Dallek)

WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Published June 11, 2021 at 11:32 AM EDT

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On this program, WAMC's Alan Chartock and Historian Dr. Robert Dallek discuss President Richard Nixon's Checkers speech. In addition, listeners will have an opportunity to actually hear the speech as it was delivered on September 23rd, 1952.