Episode #395: Richard Nixon #8: Back-to-Back Defeats (1960-1962)

Episode #395: Richard Nixon #8: Back-to-Back Defeats (1960-1962)

Richard Nixon #8: Back-to-Back Defeats (1960-1962); Topics covered include: 1960 president election, Republican National Convention, relationship between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, religion in the campaign, the first televised presidential debates, outcome of the election, Nixon returns to the law and writes his first memoirs, the Bay of Pigs, Nixon runs for Governor of California and loses, and Nixon's "final" press conference Key people include: Nelson Rockefeller, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Theodore White, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Robert Kennedy, Earl Adams, Alger Hiss, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Tom Dewey, Edmund Brown, and Herb Klein Correction at 12:51. After the 1960 election, the Nixons moved to Los Angeles (not San Clemente). For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Episode #394: Richard Nixon #7: One of the More Consequential Vice Presidencies (1953-1960)

Richard Nixon #7: One of the More Consequential Vice Presidencies (1953-1960); Topics covered include: Inauguration of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, Nixon's primary roles as VP, trip to Asia/Middle East, 1954 midterm elections, Eisenhower's heart attack, election of 1956, Eisenhower's illnesses, trip to Latin America, facing Communist protestors in Peru and violent Communist protestors in Caracas, Venezuela, 1958 midterm election, and Nixon's trip to Moscow including the "Kitchen Debate" with Nikita Khrushchev Key people include: Dwight Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, Murray Chotiner, John Foster Dulles, James Haggerty, Adlai Stevenson, Vernon Walters, John Sherwood, Nikita Khrushchev, and Harrison Salisbury For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

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/