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　　Richard M. Nixon: "Checkers"

　　My Fellow Americans,

　　I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice

Presidency and as a man whose honesty and integrity has

been questioned.

　　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. I believe we've had enough of

that in the United States, particularly with the present

Administration in Washington, D.C. To me the office of

the Vice Presidency of the United States is a great

office, and I feel that the people have got to have

confidence in the integrity of the men who run for that

office and who might obtain it.

　　I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer

to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts

is to tell the truth. And that's why I am here tonight. I

want to tell you my side of the case. I'm sure that you

have read the charge, and you've heard it, that I,

Senator Nixon, took $18,000 from a group of my

supporters.

　　Now, was that wrong? And let me say that it was

wrong. I am saying it, incidentally, that it was wrong,

just not illegal, because it isn't a question of whether

it was legal or illegal, that isn't enough. The question

is, was it morally wrong? I say that it was morally wrong

-- if any of that $18,000 went to Senator Nixon, for my

personal use. I say that it was morally wrong if it was

secretly given, and secretly handled. And I say that it

was morally wrong if any of the contributors got special

favors for the contributions that they made.

　　And now to answer those questions let me say this:

not one cent of the $18,000 or any other money of that

type ever went to me for my personal use. Every penny of

it was used to pay for political expenses that I did not

think should be charged to the taxpayers of the United

States. It was not a secret fund. As a matter of fact,

when I was on "Meet the Press"-- some of you may have

seen it last Sunday -- Peter Edson came up to me after

the program, and he said, "Dick, what about is fund we

hear about?" And I said, "Well, there is no secret about

it. Go out and see Dana Smith who was the administrator

of the fund." And I gave him [Edson] his [Smith's]

address. And I said you will find that the purpose of the

fund simply was to defray political expenses that I did

not feel should be charged to the Government. And third,

let me point out -- and I want to make this particularly

clear -- that no contributor to this fund, no contributor

to any of my campaigns, has ever received any

consideration that he would not have received as an

ordinary constituent.

　　I just don't believe in that, and I can say that

never, while I have been in the Senate of the United

States, as far as the people that contributed to this

fund are concerned, have I made a telephone call for them

to an agency, or have I gone down to an agency on their

behalf. And the records will show that, the records which

are in the hands of the administration.

　　Well, then, some of you will say, and rightly, "Well,

what did you use the fund for, Senator? Why did you have

to have it?" Let me tell you in just a word how a Senate

office operates. First of all, a Senator gets $15,000 a

year in salary. He gets enough money to pay for one trip

a year, a round trip, that is, for himself, and his

family between his home and Washington, D.C. And then he

gets an allowance to handle the people that work in his

office to handle his mail. And the allowance for my State

of California, is enough to hire 13 people. And let me

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RichardM.Nixon:"Checkers"　　RichardM.Nixon:"Checkers"　　MyFellowAmericans,　　IcomebeforeyoutonightasacandidatefortheVicePresidencyandasamanwhosehonestyandintegrityhasbeenquestioned.　　Now,theusualpoliticalthingtodowhenchargesaremadeagainstyouistoeitherignorethemortodenythemwithoutgivingdetails.Ibelievew...

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