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Jun 15, 2022 · We also hear from members of President Richard Nixon's reelection campaign who recall a secret slush fund used for break-ins and dirty tricks. Revisit the infamous scandal that took down...
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Richard Nixon's "Checkers speech" of 1952 was a somewhat successful effort to dispel a scandal concerning a slush fund of campaign contributions. Years later, Nixon's presidential re-election campaign used slush funds to buy the silence of the " White House Plumbers ".
The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952, by Senator Richard Nixon (R-CA), six weeks before the 1952 United States presidential election, in which he was the Republican nominee for Vice President.
Dec 9, 1974 · WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—Two tape‐recorded allusions by Richard M. Nixon to an apparent “slush fund” gathered from campaign contributions has been described by Watergate investigators as a central...
Richard M. Nixon, then a U.S. senator from California and the Republican vice presidential nominee, was accused of maintaining a hidden political fund of about $18,000 collected from home-state...
May 17, 1974 · In the summer of 1972, after arrests in the Watergate burglary, Herbert W. Kalmbach, President Nixon's personal lawyer, became the chief fundraiser for the burglars.
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Jul 8, 2024 · Facing an uproar over use of a private fund to cover expenses, vice presidential candidate Sen. Richard Nixon invoked the family dog, Checkers, to salvage his political career in 1952.
