Speeches

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 100. Chapters: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, Cross of Gold speech, Wasteland Speech, Slavery and States' Rights, Checkers speech, Art, Truth and Politics, Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, Ferenc Gyurcsány's speech in Balatonoszöd in May 2006, Public image of Mitt Romney, Gazimestan speech, Read my lips: no new taxes, Rivers of Blood speech, List of speeches, This time the struggle is for our freedom, Ain't I a Woman?, Series of tubes, Alternative Christmas message, Vive le Québec libre, Webster-Hayne debate, Democratic response to 2006 State of the Union address, The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville, Tryst with destiny, Chocolate City speech, Letters on a Regicide Peace, April Theses, On American Taxation, The Farrer Park address, Self-Made Men, National Forensic Association, Cornerstone Speech, William Lynch speech, Sportpalast speech, The Golden Speech, Give me Liberty, or give me Death!, Speeches of Max Weber, Pound Cake speech, Gold Spoon Oration, History Will Absolve Me, The Tragedy of Today's Gays, Laudatio Iuliae amitae, Two Americas, Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Jesuit Ivy, Tenterfield Oration, The light on the hill, Lee's Farewell Address, The American Scholar, Olynthiacs, Declaration of Conscience, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace, Divinity School Address, Le bruit et l'odeur, Marburg speech, The Ireland That We Dreamed Of, Atlanta Exposition, Redfern Park Speech, I Have No Enemies, Laudatio florentinae urbis, The bomber will always get through, Keynote, Kråkerøy Speech, Rigdon's July 4th oration, The Forgotten People, Mouseland, Paper hanger, Blood and Iron, Deathless Sermon, Speakers bureau, Address to the Women of America, The Personality of the Deity, Salt sermon, Pilgrims & Pioneers: The History and Speeches of the Science Fiction Research Association Award Winners, Votes for Women, On Protracted War, I warn the Government, Quit India speech, American Infidelity, I am an African, State of the Nation, Nutuk, Fourth Annual State of Indian Nations Address, On a Wound by Premeditation, Bursting at the seams, Oração aos moços. Excerpt: The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made by Richard Nixon, the Republican vice presidential candidate and junior United States Senator from California, on television and radio on September 23, 1952. Senator Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him for his political expenses. With his place on the Republican ticket in doubt, he flew to Los Angeles and delivered a half-hour television address in which he defended himself, attacked his opponents, and urged the audience to contact the Republican National Committee (RNC) to tell it whether he should remain on the ticket. During the speech, he stated that regardless of what anyone said, he intended to keep one gift: a black-and-white dog named Checkers by the Nixon children, thus giving the address its popular name. Nixon, as he related in his address, came from a family of moderate means, and had spent much of his time after law school either in the military, campaigning for office, or serving in Congress. After his successful 1950 Senate campaign, Nixon's backers continued to raise money to finance his political activities. These contributions went to reimburse him for travel costs, postage for political mailings which he...