Episode #393: Richard Nixon #6: The Fund Crisis and Checkers (1952)

Episode #393: Richard Nixon #6: The Fund Crisis and Checkers (1952)

Richard Nixon #6: The Fund Crisis and Checkers (1952); Topics covered include: Newspapers break the story of the Nixon Fund, rhetoric against Nixon builds, no one listening to his explanations, Dwight Eisenhower suggests he go on TV to explain everything, Nixon agrees and delivers the "Checkers Speech", reaction to the speech, and victory for Eisenhower and Nixon in the 1952 election Key people include: Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Dana Smith, Pat Nixon, Milton Berle, Thomas Dewey, Mamie Eisenhower, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, and Franklin Roosevelt For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #392: Richard Nixon #5: "Tricky Dick" on the Rise (1950-1952)

Richard Nixon #5: "Tricky Dick" on the Rise (1950-1952); Topics covered include: California Senate campaign (1950), Nixon cruises to Republican nomination, after rough primary campaign Helen Gahagan Douglas emerges as Democratic nominee, Nixon links Douglas to Communism ("The Pink Sheet", Nixon wins senate seat, newcomers: close friend Charles "Bebe" Rebozo and new personal secretary Rose Mary Wood's, birth of Julie Nixon, Nixon attacks Harry Truman Administration, Dwight Eisenhower wins the Republican nomination for President (1952), and Nixon receives the Republican nomination for Vice President Key people include: Sheridan Downey, Earl Warren, William Knowland, Kyle Palmer, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Manchester Boddy, Vito Marcantonio, Murray Chotiner, Charles "Bebe" Rebozo, Rose Mary Woods, Pat Nixon, Tricia Nixon, Julie Nixon, Harry Truman, Thomas Dewey, Herbert Brownell, Dwight Eisenhower, and Robert Taft For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #391: Richard Nixon #4: Taking Down Alger Hiss (1948-1950)

Richard Nixon #4: Taking Down Alger Hiss (1948-1950); Topics covered include: House Un-American Committee (HUAC), hearing with Whitaker Chambers who accuses Alger Hiss of being a Communist, Hiss denies the accusation, Nixon leads a subcommittee to investigate, evidence revealed, follow-up hearings, Chambers reveals new evidence implicating Hiss as a Soviet spy, the "Pumpkin Papers," Hiss convicted of perjury, and the case puts Nixon the national political map but also draws the enmity of Eastern elites who supported Hiss Key people include: Whitaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentley, Alger Hiss, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Franklin Roosevelt, John Foster Dulles, Robert Stripling, Pat Nixon, and James Forrestal For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #390: Richard Nixon #3: The Political Journey Begins (1945-1948)

Richard Nixon #3: The Political Journey Begins (1945-1948); Topics covered include: Campaigns for Congress, birth of Tricia Nixon, Attacks incumbent Congressman Jerry Voorhis as being aligned with Communists, wins congressional election, opposes Harry Truman administration on domestic policies but supports on foreign policy, serves on the Herter Commission, supports the Marshall Plan, and wins re-election Key people include: Herman Perry, Pat Nixon, Tricia Nixon, Lou Cannon, Murray Chotiner, Jerry Voorhis, John Kennedy, Harry Truman, George Marshall, and Christian Herter For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #389: Richard Nixon #2: Marriage and War (1937-1945)

Richard Nixon #2: Marriage and War (1937-1945); Topics covered include: Passes the Bar, attorney for Wingert & Bewley, meets Patricia Ryan, courts her, eventually marries her, start of World War II, gets a job in Washington, D.C. with the Office of Price Administration, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the U.S. enters World War II, Nixon resigns from the OPA to join the Navy, requests combat duty, assigned to the South Pacific Air Transport Command in the Solomon Islands, serves honorably, learns cursing and poker (good at both), rotates home in July 1944, and the end of World War II Key people include: Thomas Bewley, Patrician Ryan, Adolf Hitler, and Franklin Roosevelt For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/