September 16, 2025 • 45 mins
Why are the media & Hollywood so obsessed with Richard Nixon? In Part Two, we follow Nixon as he battles the media while the GOP is on the brink of extinction. We also hear from the Ann Coulter, purveyor of the Unsafe Substack.
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Previously on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Richard Milhouse Nixon was born in nineteen thirteen.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Democratic presidents. Before Nixon, they were taping journalists.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
To soothe his broken heart, he turned to hard work
at the family market.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
He proposed the first night he met her.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
He excelled at everything.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Commoner's Party of the United States is a fifth column,
if they ever was one.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
We will not knowingly employ a communist.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The battle between Whittaker, Chambers and Algeris, I don't think
there's been anything like it.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I am holding in my hand a microfilm, a very
highly confidential secret.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And Richard Milhouse Nixon was the one that uncovered them.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
It's an electric moment. It proves that Algeris has been lying.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Why are Hollywood in the media so obsessed with Nixon.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I'm Patrick Carelchi and I'm Adrianna Cortez.
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And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
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This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We are all about telling stories.
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Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
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The media marks stories about everyday Americans of the globalist ignore.
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You could think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we've promised only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. We're at part two of our series
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of episodes entitled The Fighter. You've probably heard part one,
but if you haven't, stop and go back and listen
from the beginning, we're looking for the answer to the
question why are the media and Hollywood so obsessed with
Richard Nixon by telling the often ignored story of his life.
So to pick up where we left off in the
sensational Alger Hiss Soviet spy hearings, Congressman Richard Nixon pulled
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a rabbit out of his hat. He produced microfilms proving
that Alger Hiss was lying to the House American Activities
Committee about working as a Soviet operative. It was an
electric moment, and the finding made the young congressman from
Yor Belinda a national hero among Republicans. He was the
quintessential anti communist crusader that never gave up. In nineteen fifty,
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the Hollywood Ten were hauled off to prison. Alger hisss
was found guilty of perjury. He would serve forty four
months in jail. The turn of events created a clear
path for Richard Nixon to seek national office, but he'd
also acquired new enemies in Hollywood and the liberal media.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
In the wake of his success, Richard decided to run
for the Senate. His opponent would eventually become California Democrat Helenkhagen.
Douglas an actress and wife of actor Melvin Douglas. She
was popular in Hollywood, but to rank and file Democrats
she was a bit too left wing. During her primary campaign,
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a Democrat senator accused her of giving quote comfort to
Soviet tyranny, labeling her the pink Lady who was quote
pink right down to her underwear, a suggestion that Helen
was aligned with the communist and other Democrats feared her
candidacy as well, including a budding Democrat dynasty. At the time.
The Kennedy family shared a concern with Richard Nixon. They
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were deeply troubled by the communist threat. John F. Kennedy,
the young congressman from Massachusetts, had even voted to continue
funding the House on American Activities Committee. To hear jfk today,
you'd think he was a conservative. He warned of the
quote ever expanding power of the federal government. So when
Nixon faced off against Helen Khagen Douglas, the Kennedy family
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took a surprising position. The nineteen fifteen Nixon Douglas race
was considered.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
A toss up.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
People were pouring into California and no one was sure
how these new residents would vote, so the Kennedy's made
a move to help tip the scales. One day, JFK
strolled into Nixon's office and delivered a check for one
thousand dollars from his father. It was a donation to
defeat Nixon's Democrat opponent, Helen Douglas. Years later, famed Massachusetts
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Congressman Tip O'Neill claimed that JFK's father had contributed one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to Nixon's nineteen fifty campaign.
Robert F. Kennedy, then a law student, also contributed an
unspecified amount to Nixon's campaign. In the decades that followed,
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Hollywood and the media successfully rewrote history, claiming that Nixon
ran a dirty, slash and burn, anti communist smear campaign
against Helen Douglas. But the truth is that even the Kennedys,
practically Democrat royalty, threw their support behind Richard Nixon's efforts
to defeat the Pink Lady. That was the level of
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fear at the time many had of the communist threat.
Helen Douglas looked to come up with her own Nixon nickname.
The actress branded him Tricky Dick. It stuck. The mainstream
narrative machine has used it ever since. Nearly sixty years later,
CNN used it as the title of their Nixon documentary. Nevertheless,
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the nickname didn't change the race. Come election night nineteen fifty,
even with her major Hollywood backing, Richard Nixon soundly defeated
the Pink Lady. He became the Senator from California, and
the national debate was about to shift to Nixon's strength.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Communism was on the move across the globe. Just a
few years earlier, the United States, working with Great Britain,
cracked Moscow's telegraph code. The secret project known as Venona,
uncovered a Soviet spirring in America hell bent on acquiring
the plans for the atomic bomb. The spiring was led
by the husband wife team Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. In
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early nineteen fifty one, their massive trial was under way.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
One of the greatest peacetime spy dramas in the nation's history,
reaches its climax as Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobol, convicted
of revealing atomic secrets to the Russians, enter the Federal
Building in New York to hear their doom. Another of
the spy ring, Missus Ethel Rosenberg, who with her husband
was convicted of actually transmitting the secrets to Russia through
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Soviet diplomatic channels. It is a stern jurist they face
in Judge Irving Kaufman, after administering a tongue lashing in
which he charged them with the indirect death of thousands
of men in Korea, he sentenced both Rosenberg's to death
in the electric chair and Sobol to thirty years in prison.
It is the first time in peace time that such
a death penalty has been handed down.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
The fear of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union
was real, and by nineteen fifty two Americans wanted proven
steady hands to deal with the threat. The Republican Party
called on the near mythic figure that defeated Japan and
Germany in World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
During the past seven years, the grave economic, social, and
military problems begotten of two World Wars have been intensified
by the announced and implacable hostility of the powerful communist dictatorship.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Ike as he was known, saw the communist threat as
the paramount concern of the time.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
It has been a global threat manifesting itself from the
parties to Europe in outward extensions throughout the vast referee
of the Soviet domain.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
At the nineteen fifty two Republican National Convention in Chicago,
a split began to appear in the Republican Party. Senator
Taft of Ohio was the favorite among the conservative faction.
He'd lose, causing a fissure that would come to a
head a decade later.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
A tumultuous convention greets the nomination of the General who
has become mister Eisenhower following his resignation from the army.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
A second ovation.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Follows when Senator Noland of California a tribute to the
vice presidential nominee, and.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
I wish to say to you that I know of
no person who could have been selected for this high
position and high honor by the Republican Party of the nation.
Then my junior colleague, Senator Richard Nixon of California.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Ike was the steady old hand Richard Milhouse. Nixon was
the young up and comer who is a relentless anti communist.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Senator Richard Nixon is only thirty nine. The vice presidential
nominee who was the nemesis of alger Hins receives the
accolade Supreme from his attractive wife. But the high moment
of the convention approaches as Hike, accompanied by Missus Eisenhower,
strides toward the speaker's stamp to make his acceptance speech.
Speaker 10 (09:51):
And before I've both seen.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
With the thought that I should like to address briefly
to you, May I have the tamarity to congratulate this
convention on the selection.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Of their nominee for Vice President.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
A man who has shown states when my quality is
in many ways, but as a special talent, an ability.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
To ferret out any.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Kind of subversive influence wherever it may be found, and
the strength and persistent to get rid of it. Ladies
and gentlemen, you have summoned me, on behalf of millions
of your fellow Americans, to lead a great crusade.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Or freedom in America and freedom in the world.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
I know something of the solemn responsibility of leading a crusade.
Speaker 11 (10:47):
I have led one.
Speaker 12 (10:49):
I take up this task.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Therefore, in the spirit of deep obligation, mindful of its
burdens and of its decisive importance, I accept your summons.
Speaker 11 (11:01):
I will lead this.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
For the first time he stands before the American public
as a civilian seeking the highest political office.
Speaker 13 (11:10):
In the land.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Republican candidate for Vice President California, thirty nine year old
Senator Richard Nixon introduces his family to America. Nixon, who
made a national reputation with his work in investigating communist
activities and government corruption, protects a sweeping victory for the
GOP team.
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to red Pilled America. So the nineteen fifty two Republican
presidential ticket of Eisenhower Nixon was a bit of an
outsider brand. Eisenhower never held political office, Nixon wasn't part
of the elite Washington DC set. Their opponent at the
top of the Democrat ticket was Illinois Governor Adelais Stevenson,
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and the contrast couldn't have been starker. Adelaide was a
character witness for Alger Hisss, the Soviet spy taken down
by Richard Nixon. Adelaide testified that the reputation for hiss
for integrity, loyalty, and veracity was good. The communist friendly
candidate didn't stand a chance.
Speaker 10 (13:18):
Ladies and gentlemen, our guest on Meet the Press as
Senator Richard Nixon, Republican of California.
Speaker 14 (13:24):
I predict that millions of Democrats this year, both north
and South, are going to put their country above their
party and vote for General Eisenhower. And I believe that
that's going to be the decisive factory in an Eisenhower victory.
Speaker 15 (13:36):
Sigh for President, Thie for President, Heige for President.
Speaker 12 (13:39):
He thought President, you liked Pi.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Everybody li Siglore President.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Wednesday, I do Washington.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
The duo seemed poised to easily march into the White House,
but less than two months into their campaign, they faced
a major roadblock. The New York Post ran a front
page story claiming Nixon had a secret eighteen thousand dollars
slush fundun for personal expenses paid by millionaire backers. The
headline read quote secret rich men's trust fund keeps Nixon
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in style far beyond his salary end quote. The accusation
was that Richard was personally benefiting from campaign funds. The
gears of the media narrative machine began painting Nixon as
a crook. The were calls for him to be dropped
from the ticket. The young anti communist crusader appeared to
be on the ropes, so his camp came up with
a novel defense. They arranged for a half hour TV
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broadcast for Nixon to plead his case directly to the
American people.
Speaker 16 (14:39):
You are about to hear a report from Senator Richard Nixon,
nominee for the office of Vice President of the United States.
The senator was interrupted as nationwide campaign to or to
be with you tonight for this important message.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Nixon was facing the test of his life. It was
nineteen fifty two. There were only three networks, so the
entire country's eyes were on him. His speech could either
save him or sink him. From behind the desk with
his wife seated just a few feet away, the Urbilenda
native went to work.
Speaker 16 (15:07):
Ladies and gentlemen, Senator Richard Nixon.
Speaker 13 (15:10):
My fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a
candidate for the vice presidency and as a man whose
honesty in integrity has been questioned. And the usual political
thing to do when charges are made against you is
to either ignore them or to deny them without giving details.
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I believe we've had enough of that in the United States,
particularly with the president 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.
And that's why I'm here tonight. I want to tell
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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 eighteen thousand dollars from a group of
my supporters. Let me say that not one cent of
the eighteen thousand dollars or any other money of that
type ever went to me for my personal use. Every
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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.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
He argued that the fund was not secret, there was
nothing illegal about it. Contributors received no special considerations. It
was purely a fund to pay for campaign expenses.
Speaker 13 (16:31):
Do you think when a senator makes political television broadcasts
radio or television, if the expense of those broadcasts should
be charged to the taxpayers? Why know what your answer is.
It's the same answer that audiences give me whenever I
discussed this particular problem. The answer is no, the taxpayers
shouldn't be required to finance items which are not official business,
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but which are primarily political business.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Nixon confessed he wasn't a rich man. He could not
just write a check to pay for campaign related expenses.
Speaker 13 (17:08):
And so I felt that the best way to handle
these necessary political expenses of getting my message to the
American people, and the speeches I made, the speeches that
I had printed, for the most part, concerned this one
message of exposing this administration, the communism in it, the
corruption in it. The only way that I could do
that was to accept the aid, which people in my
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home state of California who contributed to my campaign and
who continued to make these contributions after I was elected,
were glad to.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Make as proof that everything was on the up and up.
Richard explained that he had a third party auditor review
the expenses and they concluded that there was no wrongdoing.
Then Nixon did what was at the time unthinkable for
a politician.
Speaker 13 (17:56):
And so now what I am going to do, and incidentally,
this is unprecedented in the history of American politics. I
am going at this time to give to this television
and radio audience, a complete financial history. Everything I've earned,
everything I've spent, everything I owe.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
He went on to give a complete accounting of his
expenses and meager personal wealth, how much he'd made over
the years, what debts he owed. It was the kind
of information that almost everyone would like to keep private.
Speaker 13 (18:27):
We lived rather modestly for four years. We lived in
an apartment in Park Fairfax in Alexandria, Virginia. The rent
was eighty dollars a month, and we saved for the
time that we could buy a house. I have just
four thousand dollars in life insurance. I have no life
insurance whatever on Pat. I have no life insurance on
our two youngsters, Tricia and Julie. I own a nineteen
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fifty olds mobile car. We have our furniture. We have
no stocks and bonds of any time.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
And his wife Pat wasn't spared either.
Speaker 13 (18:59):
I should say this that Pat doesn't have a min coat,
but she does have a respectable Republican cloth cope, and
I always tell her that she'd look good in anything.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Nixon's daughter Julie would later recount the humiliation felt by
her mother.
Speaker 15 (19:14):
My father had to lay bare their whole financial picture
all that. My mother's so private and so it was
so painful to have everything that they owed listed their
life insurance, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
It was a question of.
Speaker 15 (19:26):
There in integrity that she's never gotten over.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Richard then used storytelling to drive home his common man message.
Speaker 13 (19:34):
One other thing, I probably should tell you, because if
I don't, they'll probably be saying this about me too.
We did get something a gift after the election. A
man down in Texas heard Pat and the radio mention
the fact that our two youngsters would like to have
a dog. And believe it or not, the day before
we left in this campaign trip, we got a message
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from the Union station Baltimore saying they had a package
for us. We went down to get it. You know
what it was. It was a little Cocker Spaniel dog
and a crate that he'd sent all the way from Texas,
black and white, spotted, and our little girl, Tricia, the
six year old named Checkers, and you know the kids,
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like all kids, love the dog. And I just want
to say this right now that regardless of what they
say about it, we're gonna keep them.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Richard Nixon viewed the whole affair as a media smear campaign.
And this speech included a hint to his disdain for
the narrative machine.
Speaker 13 (20:35):
In spite of my explanation the night, other smears will
be made. Others have been made in the past, And
the purpose of the smears, I know, is this to
silence me, to make me let up.
Speaker 17 (20:46):
Well, they just don't know who they're dealing with.
Speaker 13 (20:48):
I'm going to tell you this. I remember in the
dark days of the his kids, some of the same columnists,
some of the same radio commentators who are attacking me
now and misrepresenting my position, were violently opposing me at
the I was after alger Hiss, but I continued to
fight because I knew I was right. And I can
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say to this great television and radio audience that I
have no apologies to the American people for my part
in putting alger Hiss where he is today, and as
far as this is concerned, I intend to continue to fight.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
He then made a plea to the American people. He
wanted them, not the media, to decide his fate.
Speaker 18 (21:30):
I don't believe that I ought to quit, because I'm
not a quitter.
Speaker 13 (21:34):
And incidentally, Pat's not a quitter. After all, her name
was Patricia Ryan and she was born on Saint Patrick's Day,
and you know the Irish never quit. But the decision,
my friends, is not mine. I would do nothing that
would harm.
Speaker 18 (21:47):
The possibilities of Dwight Eisenhower to become President of the
United States. And for that reason, I am submitted to
the Republican National Committee tonight through this television broadcast the
decision which it is theirs to make. Let them decide
whether my position on the ticket.
Speaker 17 (22:06):
Will help for her.
Speaker 13 (22:07):
And I'm going to ask you to help them decide.
Whire and write the Republican National Committee whether you think
I should stay on or whether I should get off,
And whatever their decision is, I will.
Speaker 19 (22:19):
Abide by.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Telegrams flooded the RNC. The checker's speech, as it came
to be known, saved Richard VP spot. His opponents acquired
an acute case of Nixon derangement syndrome because the speech
was effective with the common man.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
At Wheeling, West Virginia, General Dwight D. Eisenhower welcomes his
running mate, Senator Richard M. Nixon. It's their first meeting
since the Republican vice presidential candidate defended himself from charges
of profiting from a fund of eighteen thousand dollars raised
by well wishers at Wheeling City Island Stadium. Ike expresses
his confidence that Senator Nixon has been completely vindicated.
Speaker 19 (23:02):
My colleague in this political campaign has been subject to
a very unfair and vicious attack. So far as I
am concerned, he is not only completely vindicated, I feel
that he acted as a man of courage and of honor,
and so far as I am concerned, stands higher than
ever before.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Come election day in nineteen fifty two, the duo was unstoppable.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
Electric signs slash the news Mike's in and bedlam breaks
out amongst the Republican supporters as they hear of their
landslide victory. Dwight Eisenhower becomes presidents by the greatest popular
vote ever given a White House candidate.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
As did most vps at the time, Nixon took a
back seat in the Iike administration. That is, until one
fateful day in nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Astan nation hears that its president is stricken with a
heart attack at the Denver home of his mother in law,
missus John Dowd, the Chief executive ending his vacation, is
rushed to Fitzsimmons Hospital, where he is immediately placed in
an oxygen Vice President Nixon, upon whom a heavy burden
has fallen. These for emergency meetings and sums up what
is in the hearts of all Americans.
Speaker 20 (24:13):
I have been asked a number of questions as to
the political and other implications of the President's illness. My
answer to all these questions is to express the concern
I share with all of the American people for the
early and complete recovery of the President. Compared with this,
all other questions are not worthy of comment. In the meantime,
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the business of government will continue as usual under an
administration which has been organized by the President to operate
effectively in his absence, and the people of America the
people of other countries can be sure that the United
States will continue to go forward under the Eisenhower foreign
and domestic policies.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Ike was hospitalized for seven weeks and Nixon handled the
entire higher ordeal With the poise of a future president.
The Iike Nickson ticket would go on to an even
bigger win in the nineteen fifty six election rematch against
Adleigh Stevenson. They were on top of the world, but
Richard was about to receive perhaps one of the most
consequential lessons of his political career. Do you want to
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to red pilled America. As vice President for a second term,
Richard was perfectly poised for a future run at the
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White House. He traveled to Caracas, Venezuela, where his anti
communist legend would grow.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Further on another continent. Forty six hundred and fifty miles away.
In Venezuela, the news concerns the Vice President of the
United States and his wife, arriving by Plaine and Caracas
to conclude a tour of South America. Apparently unperturbed by
warnings of a minority but strongly resentful anti American sentiment,
mister Nixon pursues the whirlwind schedule which typified his eighth
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nation Latin American tour. Hostility rears its vilifying head. The
vice president of a good neighbor is Lampoon Brewing is
the most violent attack ever perpetrated on a high American
official while on foreign soil.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
As as motorcade traveled through the city, it was attacked
by a communist mob.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Vice President's car is leading a motorcade our route to
a reflaying ceremony. The traffic is heavy and the motorcaid
forced to slow down. Then begins the barad rocked aged dbris.
Several in the party are injured as both the Vice
presidents and Missus Nixon's cars are pelted and spat upon.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
At one point, the crowd attempted to tip over his vehicle.
Fearing for Nixon's life, agents from his twelve persons secret
Service detail drew their weapons and were about to fire
on the crowd when Nixon told them to hold their
fire and shoot only on his orders. No shots were
fired and they made it out safely.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
At the American embassy, mister Nixon meets the press. Speaking
of the attack, he says it is not easy to
endure the kind of activity his party went through.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
The event almost caused an international incident. President Eisenhower actually
mobilized forces for a potential invasion of Venezuela if Nixon
were attacked again.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
A visit to Venezuela is cut short. Vigilant guards set
up a formidable protection shield, but always the Vice president
replexed calm rather than concern. After his turbulent experience, Missus
Nixon too, wins friends with her demeanor. Las ends a
South American tour which made many headlines.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Nixon returned to a hero's welcome of ten thousand people,
but on his return he received perhaps one of the
most consequential lessons of his political career. In nineteen fifty eight,
a House subcommittee investigated a Boston textile manufacturer for Federal
Trade Commission violations. In the process, they found some dirt
on President Eisenhower's chief of Staff, Sherman Adams.
Speaker 12 (28:17):
One of the Capitol's hottest and touchiest political controversies is
set off with the charge of the House Investigating Committee
and that White House Chief of Staff Sherman Adams improperly
received gifts from Boston industrialists for no goal.
Speaker 10 (28:29):
Five.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Said Adams on his own behalf.
Speaker 10 (28:32):
I can only say to this committee with a clear conscience,
that in the five and a half years that I
have been at my post, I have never permitted any
personal relationship to effect in any way any actions of
mine and matters relating to the conduct of my office.
But I, upon the contrary, I have in any way
so conducted myself as to cast any semblance of doubt
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upon such conduct. I can only say that the era
was one of judgment and not of intent.
Speaker 12 (28:59):
At his next press conference, I anticipated reporters questions, where
they prepared statements in which he admitted that Adams had
been imprudent, but added in his.
Speaker 8 (29:08):
Defense, I believe that the presentation made by Governor Adams
to the Congressional Committee yesterday truthfully represents the pretinent facts.
I personally like Governor Adams. I admire his abilities. I
respect him because of his personal and official integrity.
Speaker 10 (29:27):
I need him.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
As the investigation into Adams intensified, I had to make
a tough decision. Nixon later recalled the time.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
Finally Eisenhower decided, after months of indecision on it, he
stood up for him and press conferences over and over again,
and haggard he did.
Speaker 21 (29:45):
He decided he had to go.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Nixon felt that firing Sherman based on the allegation was wrong.
He thought Sherman should have been given a chance to
prove his innocence, but Ike had a different conclusion.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
Eisenhower called me in and asked me to talk to Sherman.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I directed Nixon to ask for Sherman Adams re. In
the end, Sherman was never prosecuted for anything and went
on to run a ski lodge. Nixon saw the whole
affair as an injustice that he wouldn't repeat as a leader.
As the nineteen sixty election cycle approached, Richard Nixon went
abroad to the Soviet Union and famously debated with charismatic
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Soviet leader Nikita Krushev over capitalism versus communism. It came
to be known as the Kitchen Debate, and Krushev claimed
the Soviets communism was a superior system. He believed they'd
easily leave American capitalism in the dust. Nixon handled the
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exchange diplomatically, as.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Far as mister Kruschev's comments just now, and they are
in the tradition we learned to expect from him speaking
extemporaneously and frankly whenever he has an opportunity, and I
am glad that he did so on our color television.
This mister Krushchev is the one of the the most
advanced developments in communication that we have, at.
Speaker 13 (31:08):
Least in our country.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
It is color television of cars, as you will see
in a few minutes, and we will see the very
picture of your speech and of my comments that has
been transmitted. It's one of the best means of communication
that has been developed. And I can only say that
if this competition which you have just described so effectively,
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in which you plan to outstrip us, and particularly in
the production of consumer goods, if this competition is to
do the best for both of our peoples and for
people everywhere, there must be a free exchange of ideas.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
The trip underscored Nixon's effectiveness on the global stage against communism,
with Nixon being the clear favorite to win the Republican nomination.
It was this success as an anti communist crusader that
the Democrat Party needed to answer in the nineteen sixty
and they found it in one of Nixon's former campaign donors.
Speaker 22 (32:07):
Let me say first that I accept the nomination of
the Democratic Party. I accepted without reservation and with only
one obligation, the obligation to devote every effort of my
mind and spirit to lead our party back to victory
and our nation to greatness.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
John Fitzgerald Kennedy traveled a familiar political road, just like Nixon.
After a short stint as a congressman, he became an
ambitious senator. But unlike Nixon, the Massachusetts native was born
into wealth. JFK was the perfect match. He better represented
a new beginning. Kennedy was four years younger than Nixon,
who'd been on the national stage for over a decade,
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and JFK had a similar view of the communist threat.
Speaker 22 (32:52):
Communist influence has penetrated Indu Asia. It stands in the
Middle East and now fested some ninety miles off the
coast of Florida. The harsh actually the matter that we
stand at this frontier, at a turning point of history.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
We must prove all over again.
Speaker 22 (33:11):
To a watching world, as we sit on a most
conspicuous stage, whether this nation, conceived as it is, whether
it's freedom of choice, it's breadth of opportunity, its range
of alternatives, can compete with a single minded advance of
the communist system.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Just weeks after JFK clinch the nomination, Nixon followed suit.
Speaker 13 (33:32):
One hundred years ago, Abraham Lincoln was asked, during the
dark days of the tragic war between the States whether
he thought God was on his side. His answer was,
my concern is not whether God is on our.
Speaker 23 (33:48):
Side, but whether we are.
Speaker 13 (33:51):
On God's side.
Speaker 23 (33:55):
My fellow Americans, may that ever be our prayer for
our country, And in that spirit, with faith in a man,
with faith in her ideals and in her people, I
accept your nomination for President of the United States.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
It was game on, and Nixon began to play up
as anti communism bona fides in national TV spots.
Speaker 13 (34:26):
Mister Nixon, what is the truth about our ability to
fight the growing menace of communism?
Speaker 21 (34:31):
Well, first, we must recognize communism for what it is.
Mister Khrushchev understands only strength and firmness. To apologize to
him just means weakness. When mister Krushchev says our grandchildren
will live under communism, we must answer his grandchildren will
live in freedom.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
But after just four weeks on the campaign, Nixon was
hospitalized for a knee injury. The media took advantage of
the opportunity, juxtaposing the young, energetic JFK traveling the country
with images of Nixon recovering in a hospital bed. A
few weeks after leaving the hospital. Nixon faced off with
JFK in the first nationally televised presidential debates.
Speaker 16 (35:12):
The candidates need no introduction, the Republican candidate Vice President
Richard M.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Nixon and the Democratic candidate Senator John F.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Kendidate JFK gave the first opening statement.
Speaker 24 (35:23):
In the election of eighteen sixty, Abraham Lincoln said, the
question was whether this nation could exist half slave or
half free.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
In the election of nineteen sixty, and with the.
Speaker 24 (35:33):
World around us, question is whether the world will exist
half slave or half free, whether it will move in
the direction of freedom, in the direction of the road
that we are taking, or whether it will move in
the direction of slavery.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Nixon was up next.
Speaker 17 (35:51):
The things that Senator Kennedy has said many of us
can agree with. There is no question but that this
nation cannot stand still because we are in a deadly competition,
a competition only with the men in the Kremlin, with
the men and peaking. We're a hit in this competition,
as Senator Kennedy I think is implied. It should have.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Been a slam dunk. Nixon was a TV veteran. He'd
saved his career in the Checker speech and was practically
a spokesman for the technology behind the Iron Curtain. But
before the debate he made a minor mistake that gave
an attack opening to the media. Nixon refused makeup, and
under the hot TV lights without powder to absorb it,
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he began to sweat. JFK, who was all dolled up,
did not.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
They've made such a big deal out of that debate
he had with JFK.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
That's an colter, author of the unsafe substack.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Where I mean television was kind of new. There are
bright lights. JFK is you know, all powdered up like
a girl, and Nixon, being I would say a little
more manly, said no powder please. So yeah, his face
got a little damp and oh he's sweating. He's so gross.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
The mea ran with it, claiming the young debonair JFK
was calm, cool and collected while tricky Dick was sweating
it out. A Nixon pressade would later highlight the media's
love affair with JFK.
Speaker 11 (37:14):
The press felt that a very closer kinship to mister Kennedy.
The senator was very good at dealing with the press.
He was very good socializing with him. I've never seen
more biased press, a more emotional press than in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Nixon attempted to counter the media narrative machine by appearing
with his wife on a popular TV show at the time,
person to person.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Mister Vice President, how do you do?
Speaker 20 (37:41):
How are you?
Speaker 25 (37:41):
Charles?
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Nice to hear from you in.
Speaker 10 (37:43):
A campaign as prolonged as this, with mounting fatigue and tensions,
it must be a terrible straind you ever.
Speaker 13 (37:50):
Got a full night's sleep?
Speaker 17 (37:52):
Very solemn?
Speaker 13 (37:53):
As a matter of fact, I usually try to sleep on.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Thursdays a come election night. The man from your Belinda
couldn't quite get over the finish line.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
I want Kennedy, and I want all of you to
know wrapped certainly if this trend does continue and he
does become our next president, but he will have my
wholehearted apart.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
By morning, Kennedy had a slim lead of one hundred
and thirteen thousand votes. Reports quickly surfaced of widespread voter
fraud in Illinois and Texas. Angry at the report, Eisenhower
reportedly volunteered to raise money to pay for a recount,
but Nixon, fearing a six month recount would tear the
country apart, refused to authorize it. JFK became the thirty
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fifth President of the United States.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
My congratulations to Senator Kennedy for his fine race in
this campaign.
Speaker 13 (38:47):
And to Oliver.
Speaker 17 (38:52):
Am I am sure.
Speaker 13 (38:54):
I am sure his supporters are just as enthusiastic as you.
Speaker 21 (38:57):
Are for me, and I thank you for that much.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Two years later, Nixon was urged to run for California
governor to keep his political career live. He accepted, but
the position almost appeared too small for the man that
conquered the international stage, and after a new barrage of
medius mirrors in the home state of Hollywood, Nixon lost
to Democrat incumbent Pat Brown. In his concession speech, he
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let the media have.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
It for once.
Speaker 13 (39:24):
Gentlemen, I would appreciate if you would write what I'm saying.
And as I leave the press, all I can say
is this, for sixteen years, ever since the his case,
you've had a lot of fun, a lot of fun.
You've had an opportunity to attack me, and I think
I've given as good as I've taken. But as I
leave you, I want you to know, just think how
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much you're going to be messing. You don't have Nexon
to kick around anymore, because gentlemen, this is my last
press conference, and I hope that what I have said
today will at least make television, radio, the press recognize
that they have a and a responsibility. They're against the candidate,
giv him the shaft, but also recognized, if they give
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him the shaft, put one lonely reporter on the campaign
who will report what the candidate says now, and then
thank you, gentlemen in good day.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
The ABC network validated his complaint by quickly rushing to
air with the documentary its title The Political Obituary of
Richard M. Nixon. Alger Hisss made an appearance on the
program criticizing the former vice president. The public was outraged
that ABC used a Soviet spy to smear Nixon. The
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outcry drove the show and its host off the air.
Public sympathy for the way the media treated Nixon began
to grow. After his defeat, the Nixon family moved to
New York City. Richard began practicing law again. As the
nineteen sixty four election approached, Republicans pressed him to enter
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the race against Lyndon B. Johnson, who'd become president after
JFK's assassination. Nixon no doubt saw it as an unwinnable race,
and he publicly declined.
Speaker 25 (41:16):
I have reached the conclusion that the best interest of
the party would be served for me not to become
a candidate, and that the best interest of the party
would be served for me to do what I am
doing at this convention, to speak for the nominee and
to attempt to unite the party behind the nominee. That
is my role at this convention, and that will be
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my role during the campaign.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
The nineteen sixty four Republican National Convention was a tumultuous
time for the party. A clash between moderate Republicans like
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and a conservative faction of
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the party led by Arizona Senator Barry goldwaterlled up on
the convention floor.
Speaker 16 (42:05):
Governor New York.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Is recognized Requirementutes and plase.
Speaker 13 (42:09):
Give him your attention.
Speaker 26 (42:10):
Precisely one year ago to day, on July fourteenth, nineteen
sixty three, I warned that the Republican Party is in
real danger of subversion by a radical, well financed, highly.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Discipline of goud.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Rockefeller could barely get through his speech In an attempt
to bring the party together, Richard Nixon was invited to
introduce the nominee, Barry Goldwater.
Speaker 17 (42:38):
He is the man who earned and proudly carries the
title of mister Conservative.
Speaker 6 (42:44):
And he is the man who, after the greatest campaign
in history, will be mister President, Barry gold.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
But as Barry Goldwater took the stage, it was clear
that the party was hopelessly fractured.
Speaker 10 (43:00):
I will remind you that trainaism in the defense of liberty.
Speaker 11 (43:06):
There's no vice.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
The Rockefeller Republicans abandoned Goldwater, but Richard Nixon stayed by
his side, vigorously campaigning for the GOP nominee. But come
election Day nineteen sixty four, Goldwater experienced a crushing defeat,
garnering roughly thirty eight percent of the vote to l
BJ's sixty one percent. The GOP were slaughtered in Washington,
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d C. As well. With only one hundred and forty
House seats and thirty two Senate seats, it was reduced
to half the size of the Democrats. On the state level,
it held only seventeen governorships. The GOP was annihilated and
a cultural revolution was under way. A Marxist movement had
just taken root in the nation, and there is a
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serious question of whether the GOP would even survive. This
was the state of the Republican Party in nineteen sixty four,
and it would set the stage for one of the
greatest comebacks in American political history.
Speaker 27 (44:22):
Coming up on Red Pilled America, a teenager held up
a sign, bring us together, and that will be the
great objective of this administration at the outset to bring
the American people together.
Speaker 15 (44:35):
Inside the courtroom, Senator Kennedy rose to face Judge James
Boyle and the court clerk while the charge was read.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
How do you plead?
Speaker 25 (44:42):
Asked the clerk.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
Kennedy bowed his head and said softly guilty.
Speaker 14 (44:47):
What can or will he do to preserve his potential
as a candidate for president of the United States?
Speaker 28 (44:52):
Democratic officials today held a series of meetings to talk
about tighter security at the national headquarters here in Washington.
They admit there isn't much they can do about the
break in, but they hope to come up with something.
Speaker 21 (45:03):
All three branches of government secretly linked arms to avoid
nextion's landslide re election.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
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Previously on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Richard Milhouse Nixon was born in nineteen thirteen.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Democratic presidents. Before Nixon, they were taping journalists.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
To soothe his broken heart, he turned to hard work
at the family market.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
He proposed the first night he met her.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
He excelled at everything.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Commoner's Party of the United States is a fifth column,
if they ever was one.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
We will not knowingly employ a communist.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The battle between Whittaker, Chambers and Algeris, I don't think
there's been anything like it.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I am holding in my hand a microfilm, a very
highly confidential secret.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
And Richard Milhouse Nixon was the one that uncovered them.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
It's an electric moment. It proves that Algeris has been lying.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Why are Hollywood in the media so obsessed with Nixon.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I'm Patrick Carelchi and I'm Adrianna Cortez.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
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We are all about telling stories.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
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You could think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we've promised only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. We're at part two of our series
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of episodes entitled The Fighter. You've probably heard part one,
but if you haven't, stop and go back and listen
from the beginning, we're looking for the answer to the
question why are the media and Hollywood so obsessed with
Richard Nixon by telling the often ignored story of his life.
So to pick up where we left off in the
sensational Alger Hiss Soviet spy hearings, Congressman Richard Nixon pulled
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a rabbit out of his hat. He produced microfilms proving
that Alger Hiss was lying to the House American Activities
Committee about working as a Soviet operative. It was an
electric moment, and the finding made the young congressman from
Yor Belinda a national hero among Republicans. He was the
quintessential anti communist crusader that never gave up. In nineteen fifty,
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the Hollywood Ten were hauled off to prison. Alger hisss
was found guilty of perjury. He would serve forty four
months in jail. The turn of events created a clear
path for Richard Nixon to seek national office, but he'd
also acquired new enemies in Hollywood and the liberal media.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
In the wake of his success, Richard decided to run
for the Senate. His opponent would eventually become California Democrat Helenkhagen.
Douglas an actress and wife of actor Melvin Douglas. She
was popular in Hollywood, but to rank and file Democrats
she was a bit too left wing. During her primary campaign,
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a Democrat senator accused her of giving quote comfort to
Soviet tyranny, labeling her the pink Lady who was quote
pink right down to her underwear, a suggestion that Helen
was aligned with the communist and other Democrats feared her
candidacy as well, including a budding Democrat dynasty. At the time.
The Kennedy family shared a concern with Richard Nixon. They
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were deeply troubled by the communist threat. John F. Kennedy,
the young congressman from Massachusetts, had even voted to continue
funding the House on American Activities Committee. To hear jfk today,
you'd think he was a conservative. He warned of the
quote ever expanding power of the federal government. So when
Nixon faced off against Helen Khagen Douglas, the Kennedy family
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took a surprising position. The nineteen fifteen Nixon Douglas race
was considered.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
A toss up.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
People were pouring into California and no one was sure
how these new residents would vote, so the Kennedy's made
a move to help tip the scales. One day, JFK
strolled into Nixon's office and delivered a check for one
thousand dollars from his father. It was a donation to
defeat Nixon's Democrat opponent, Helen Douglas. Years later, famed Massachusetts
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Congressman Tip O'Neill claimed that JFK's father had contributed one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to Nixon's nineteen fifty campaign.
Robert F. Kennedy, then a law student, also contributed an
unspecified amount to Nixon's campaign. In the decades that followed,
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Hollywood and the media successfully rewrote history, claiming that Nixon
ran a dirty, slash and burn, anti communist smear campaign
against Helen Douglas. But the truth is that even the Kennedys,
practically Democrat royalty, threw their support behind Richard Nixon's efforts
to defeat the Pink Lady. That was the level of
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fear at the time many had of the communist threat.
Helen Douglas looked to come up with her own Nixon nickname.
The actress branded him Tricky Dick. It stuck. The mainstream
narrative machine has used it ever since. Nearly sixty years later,
CNN used it as the title of their Nixon documentary. Nevertheless,
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the nickname didn't change the race. Come election night nineteen fifty,
even with her major Hollywood backing, Richard Nixon soundly defeated
the Pink Lady. He became the Senator from California, and
the national debate was about to shift to Nixon's strength.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Communism was on the move across the globe. Just a
few years earlier, the United States, working with Great Britain,
cracked Moscow's telegraph code. The secret project known as Venona,
uncovered a Soviet spirring in America hell bent on acquiring
the plans for the atomic bomb. The spiring was led
by the husband wife team Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. In
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early nineteen fifty one, their massive trial was under way.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
One of the greatest peacetime spy dramas in the nation's history,
reaches its climax as Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobol, convicted
of revealing atomic secrets to the Russians, enter the Federal
Building in New York to hear their doom. Another of
the spy ring, Missus Ethel Rosenberg, who with her husband
was convicted of actually transmitting the secrets to Russia through
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Soviet diplomatic channels. It is a stern jurist they face
in Judge Irving Kaufman, after administering a tongue lashing in
which he charged them with the indirect death of thousands
of men in Korea, he sentenced both Rosenberg's to death
in the electric chair and Sobol to thirty years in prison.
It is the first time in peace time that such
a death penalty has been handed down.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
The fear of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union
was real, and by nineteen fifty two Americans wanted proven
steady hands to deal with the threat. The Republican Party
called on the near mythic figure that defeated Japan and
Germany in World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
During the past seven years, the grave economic, social, and
military problems begotten of two World Wars have been intensified
by the announced and implacable hostility of the powerful communist dictatorship.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Ike as he was known, saw the communist threat as
the paramount concern of the time.
Speaker 8 (08:27):
It has been a global threat manifesting itself from the
parties to Europe in outward extensions throughout the vast referee
of the Soviet domain.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
At the nineteen fifty two Republican National Convention in Chicago,
a split began to appear in the Republican Party. Senator
Taft of Ohio was the favorite among the conservative faction.
He'd lose, causing a fissure that would come to a
head a decade later.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
A tumultuous convention greets the nomination of the General who
has become mister Eisenhower following his resignation from the army.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
A second ovation.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Follows when Senator Noland of California a tribute to the
vice presidential nominee, and.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
I wish to say to you that I know of
no person who could have been selected for this high
position and high honor by the Republican Party of the nation.
Then my junior colleague, Senator Richard Nixon of California.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Ike was the steady old hand Richard Milhouse. Nixon was
the young up and comer who is a relentless anti communist.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Senator Richard Nixon is only thirty nine. The vice presidential
nominee who was the nemesis of alger Hins receives the
accolade Supreme from his attractive wife. But the high moment
of the convention approaches as Hike, accompanied by Missus Eisenhower,
strides toward the speaker's stamp to make his acceptance speech.
Speaker 10 (09:51):
And before I've both seen.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
With the thought that I should like to address briefly
to you, May I have the tamarity to congratulate this
convention on the selection.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Of their nominee for Vice President.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
A man who has shown states when my quality is
in many ways, but as a special talent, an ability.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
To ferret out any.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Kind of subversive influence wherever it may be found, and
the strength and persistent to get rid of it. Ladies
and gentlemen, you have summoned me, on behalf of millions
of your fellow Americans, to lead a great crusade.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Or freedom in America and freedom in the world.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
I know something of the solemn responsibility of leading a crusade.
Speaker 11 (10:47):
I have led one.
Speaker 12 (10:49):
I take up this task.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Therefore, in the spirit of deep obligation, mindful of its
burdens and of its decisive importance, I accept your summons.
Speaker 11 (11:01):
I will lead this.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
For the first time he stands before the American public
as a civilian seeking the highest political office.
Speaker 13 (11:10):
In the land.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Republican candidate for Vice President California, thirty nine year old
Senator Richard Nixon introduces his family to America. Nixon, who
made a national reputation with his work in investigating communist
activities and government corruption, protects a sweeping victory for the
GOP team.
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to red Pilled America. So the nineteen fifty two Republican
presidential ticket of Eisenhower Nixon was a bit of an
outsider brand. Eisenhower never held political office, Nixon wasn't part
of the elite Washington DC set. Their opponent at the
top of the Democrat ticket was Illinois Governor Adelais Stevenson,
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and the contrast couldn't have been starker. Adelaide was a
character witness for Alger Hisss, the Soviet spy taken down
by Richard Nixon. Adelaide testified that the reputation for hiss
for integrity, loyalty, and veracity was good. The communist friendly
candidate didn't stand a chance.
Speaker 10 (13:18):
Ladies and gentlemen, our guest on Meet the Press as
Senator Richard Nixon, Republican of California.
Speaker 14 (13:24):
I predict that millions of Democrats this year, both north
and South, are going to put their country above their
party and vote for General Eisenhower. And I believe that
that's going to be the decisive factory in an Eisenhower victory.
Speaker 15 (13:36):
Sigh for President, Thie for President, Heige for President.
Speaker 12 (13:39):
He thought President, you liked Pi.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Everybody li Siglore President.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Wednesday, I do Washington.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
The duo seemed poised to easily march into the White House,
but less than two months into their campaign, they faced
a major roadblock. The New York Post ran a front
page story claiming Nixon had a secret eighteen thousand dollars
slush fundun for personal expenses paid by millionaire backers. The
headline read quote secret rich men's trust fund keeps Nixon
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in style far beyond his salary end quote. The accusation
was that Richard was personally benefiting from campaign funds. The
gears of the media narrative machine began painting Nixon as
a crook. The were calls for him to be dropped
from the ticket. The young anti communist crusader appeared to
be on the ropes, so his camp came up with
a novel defense. They arranged for a half hour TV
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broadcast for Nixon to plead his case directly to the
American people.
Speaker 16 (14:39):
You are about to hear a report from Senator Richard Nixon,
nominee for the office of Vice President of the United States.
The senator was interrupted as nationwide campaign to or to
be with you tonight for this important message.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Nixon was facing the test of his life. It was
nineteen fifty two. There were only three networks, so the
entire country's eyes were on him. His speech could either
save him or sink him. From behind the desk with
his wife seated just a few feet away, the Urbilenda
native went to work.
Speaker 16 (15:07):
Ladies and gentlemen, Senator Richard Nixon.
Speaker 13 (15:10):
My fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a
candidate for the vice presidency and as a man whose
honesty in integrity has been questioned. And the usual political
thing to do when charges are made against you is
to either ignore them or to deny them without giving details.
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I believe we've had enough of that in the United States,
particularly with the president 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.
And that's why I'm here tonight. I want to tell
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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 eighteen thousand dollars from a group of
my supporters. Let me say that not one cent of
the eighteen thousand dollars or any other money of that
type ever went to me for my personal use. Every
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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.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
He argued that the fund was not secret, there was
nothing illegal about it. Contributors received no special considerations. It
was purely a fund to pay for campaign expenses.
Speaker 13 (16:31):
Do you think when a senator makes political television broadcasts
radio or television, if the expense of those broadcasts should
be charged to the taxpayers? Why know what your answer is.
It's the same answer that audiences give me whenever I
discussed this particular problem. The answer is no, the taxpayers
shouldn't be required to finance items which are not official business,
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but which are primarily political business.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Nixon confessed he wasn't a rich man. He could not
just write a check to pay for campaign related expenses.
Speaker 13 (17:08):
And so I felt that the best way to handle
these necessary political expenses of getting my message to the
American people, and the speeches I made, the speeches that
I had printed, for the most part, concerned this one
message of exposing this administration, the communism in it, the
corruption in it. The only way that I could do
that was to accept the aid, which people in my
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home state of California who contributed to my campaign and
who continued to make these contributions after I was elected,
were glad to.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Make as proof that everything was on the up and up.
Richard explained that he had a third party auditor review
the expenses and they concluded that there was no wrongdoing.
Then Nixon did what was at the time unthinkable for
a politician.
Speaker 13 (17:56):
And so now what I am going to do, and incidentally,
this is unprecedented in the history of American politics. I
am going at this time to give to this television
and radio audience, a complete financial history. Everything I've earned,
everything I've spent, everything I owe.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
He went on to give a complete accounting of his
expenses and meager personal wealth, how much he'd made over
the years, what debts he owed. It was the kind
of information that almost everyone would like to keep private.
Speaker 13 (18:27):
We lived rather modestly for four years. We lived in
an apartment in Park Fairfax in Alexandria, Virginia. The rent
was eighty dollars a month, and we saved for the
time that we could buy a house. I have just
four thousand dollars in life insurance. I have no life
insurance whatever on Pat. I have no life insurance on
our two youngsters, Tricia and Julie. I own a nineteen
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fifty olds mobile car. We have our furniture. We have
no stocks and bonds of any time.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
And his wife Pat wasn't spared either.
Speaker 13 (18:59):
I should say this that Pat doesn't have a min coat,
but she does have a respectable Republican cloth cope, and
I always tell her that she'd look good in anything.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Nixon's daughter Julie would later recount the humiliation felt by
her mother.
Speaker 15 (19:14):
My father had to lay bare their whole financial picture
all that. My mother's so private and so it was
so painful to have everything that they owed listed their
life insurance, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
It was a question of.
Speaker 15 (19:26):
There in integrity that she's never gotten over.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Richard then used storytelling to drive home his common man message.
Speaker 13 (19:34):
One other thing, I probably should tell you, because if
I don't, they'll probably be saying this about me too.
We did get something a gift after the election. A
man down in Texas heard Pat and the radio mention
the fact that our two youngsters would like to have
a dog. And believe it or not, the day before
we left in this campaign trip, we got a message
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from the Union station Baltimore saying they had a package
for us. We went down to get it. You know
what it was. It was a little Cocker Spaniel dog
and a crate that he'd sent all the way from Texas,
black and white, spotted, and our little girl, Tricia, the
six year old named Checkers, and you know the kids,
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like all kids, love the dog. And I just want
to say this right now that regardless of what they
say about it, we're gonna keep them.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Richard Nixon viewed the whole affair as a media smear campaign.
And this speech included a hint to his disdain for
the narrative machine.
Speaker 13 (20:35):
In spite of my explanation the night, other smears will
be made. Others have been made in the past, And
the purpose of the smears, I know, is this to
silence me, to make me let up.
Speaker 17 (20:46):
Well, they just don't know who they're dealing with.
Speaker 13 (20:48):
I'm going to tell you this. I remember in the
dark days of the his kids, some of the same columnists,
some of the same radio commentators who are attacking me
now and misrepresenting my position, were violently opposing me at
the I was after alger Hiss, but I continued to
fight because I knew I was right. And I can
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say to this great television and radio audience that I
have no apologies to the American people for my part
in putting alger Hiss where he is today, and as
far as this is concerned, I intend to continue to fight.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
He then made a plea to the American people. He
wanted them, not the media, to decide his fate.
Speaker 18 (21:30):
I don't believe that I ought to quit, because I'm
not a quitter.
Speaker 13 (21:34):
And incidentally, Pat's not a quitter. After all, her name
was Patricia Ryan and she was born on Saint Patrick's Day,
and you know the Irish never quit. But the decision,
my friends, is not mine. I would do nothing that
would harm.
Speaker 18 (21:47):
The possibilities of Dwight Eisenhower to become President of the
United States. And for that reason, I am submitted to
the Republican National Committee tonight through this television broadcast the
decision which it is theirs to make. Let them decide
whether my position on the ticket.
Speaker 17 (22:06):
Will help for her.
Speaker 13 (22:07):
And I'm going to ask you to help them decide.
Whire and write the Republican National Committee whether you think
I should stay on or whether I should get off,
And whatever their decision is, I will.
Speaker 19 (22:19):
Abide by.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Telegrams flooded the RNC. The checker's speech, as it came
to be known, saved Richard VP spot. His opponents acquired
an acute case of Nixon derangement syndrome because the speech
was effective with the common man.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
At Wheeling, West Virginia, General Dwight D. Eisenhower welcomes his
running mate, Senator Richard M. Nixon. It's their first meeting
since the Republican vice presidential candidate defended himself from charges
of profiting from a fund of eighteen thousand dollars raised
by well wishers at Wheeling City Island Stadium. Ike expresses
his confidence that Senator Nixon has been completely vindicated.
Speaker 19 (23:02):
My colleague in this political campaign has been subject to
a very unfair and vicious attack. So far as I
am concerned, he is not only completely vindicated, I feel
that he acted as a man of courage and of honor,
and so far as I am concerned, stands higher than
ever before.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Come election day in nineteen fifty two, the duo was unstoppable.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
Electric signs slash the news Mike's in and bedlam breaks
out amongst the Republican supporters as they hear of their
landslide victory. Dwight Eisenhower becomes presidents by the greatest popular
vote ever given a White House candidate.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
As did most vps at the time, Nixon took a
back seat in the Iike administration. That is, until one
fateful day in nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Astan nation hears that its president is stricken with a
heart attack at the Denver home of his mother in law,
missus John Dowd, the Chief executive ending his vacation, is
rushed to Fitzsimmons Hospital, where he is immediately placed in
an oxygen Vice President Nixon, upon whom a heavy burden
has fallen. These for emergency meetings and sums up what
is in the hearts of all Americans.
Speaker 20 (24:13):
I have been asked a number of questions as to
the political and other implications of the President's illness. My
answer to all these questions is to express the concern
I share with all of the American people for the
early and complete recovery of the President. Compared with this,
all other questions are not worthy of comment. In the meantime,
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the business of government will continue as usual under an
administration which has been organized by the President to operate
effectively in his absence, and the people of America the
people of other countries can be sure that the United
States will continue to go forward under the Eisenhower foreign
and domestic policies.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Ike was hospitalized for seven weeks and Nixon handled the
entire higher ordeal With the poise of a future president.
The Iike Nickson ticket would go on to an even
bigger win in the nineteen fifty six election rematch against
Adleigh Stevenson. They were on top of the world, but
Richard was about to receive perhaps one of the most
consequential lessons of his political career. Do you want to
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Richard was perfectly poised for a future run at the
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White House. He traveled to Caracas, Venezuela, where his anti
communist legend would grow.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Further on another continent. Forty six hundred and fifty miles away.
In Venezuela, the news concerns the Vice President of the
United States and his wife, arriving by Plaine and Caracas
to conclude a tour of South America. Apparently unperturbed by
warnings of a minority but strongly resentful anti American sentiment,
mister Nixon pursues the whirlwind schedule which typified his eighth
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nation Latin American tour. Hostility rears its vilifying head. The
vice president of a good neighbor is Lampoon Brewing is
the most violent attack ever perpetrated on a high American
official while on foreign soil.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
As as motorcade traveled through the city, it was attacked
by a communist mob.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Vice President's car is leading a motorcade our route to
a reflaying ceremony. The traffic is heavy and the motorcaid
forced to slow down. Then begins the barad rocked aged dbris.
Several in the party are injured as both the Vice
presidents and Missus Nixon's cars are pelted and spat upon.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
At one point, the crowd attempted to tip over his vehicle.
Fearing for Nixon's life, agents from his twelve persons secret
Service detail drew their weapons and were about to fire
on the crowd when Nixon told them to hold their
fire and shoot only on his orders. No shots were
fired and they made it out safely.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
At the American embassy, mister Nixon meets the press. Speaking
of the attack, he says it is not easy to
endure the kind of activity his party went through.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
The event almost caused an international incident. President Eisenhower actually
mobilized forces for a potential invasion of Venezuela if Nixon
were attacked again.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
A visit to Venezuela is cut short. Vigilant guards set
up a formidable protection shield, but always the Vice president
replexed calm rather than concern. After his turbulent experience, Missus
Nixon too, wins friends with her demeanor. Las ends a
South American tour which made many headlines.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Nixon returned to a hero's welcome of ten thousand people,
but on his return he received perhaps one of the
most consequential lessons of his political career. In nineteen fifty eight,
a House subcommittee investigated a Boston textile manufacturer for Federal
Trade Commission violations. In the process, they found some dirt
on President Eisenhower's chief of Staff, Sherman Adams.
Speaker 12 (28:17):
One of the Capitol's hottest and touchiest political controversies is
set off with the charge of the House Investigating Committee
and that White House Chief of Staff Sherman Adams improperly
received gifts from Boston industrialists for no goal.
Speaker 10 (28:29):
Five.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Said Adams on his own behalf.
Speaker 10 (28:32):
I can only say to this committee with a clear conscience,
that in the five and a half years that I
have been at my post, I have never permitted any
personal relationship to effect in any way any actions of
mine and matters relating to the conduct of my office.
But I, upon the contrary, I have in any way
so conducted myself as to cast any semblance of doubt
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upon such conduct. I can only say that the era
was one of judgment and not of intent.
Speaker 12 (28:59):
At his next press conference, I anticipated reporters questions, where
they prepared statements in which he admitted that Adams had
been imprudent, but added in his.
Speaker 8 (29:08):
Defense, I believe that the presentation made by Governor Adams
to the Congressional Committee yesterday truthfully represents the pretinent facts.
I personally like Governor Adams. I admire his abilities. I
respect him because of his personal and official integrity.
Speaker 10 (29:27):
I need him.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
As the investigation into Adams intensified, I had to make
a tough decision. Nixon later recalled the time.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
Finally Eisenhower decided, after months of indecision on it, he
stood up for him and press conferences over and over again,
and haggard he did.
Speaker 21 (29:45):
He decided he had to go.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Nixon felt that firing Sherman based on the allegation was wrong.
He thought Sherman should have been given a chance to
prove his innocence, but Ike had a different conclusion.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
Eisenhower called me in and asked me to talk to Sherman.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I directed Nixon to ask for Sherman Adams re. In
the end, Sherman was never prosecuted for anything and went
on to run a ski lodge. Nixon saw the whole
affair as an injustice that he wouldn't repeat as a leader.
As the nineteen sixty election cycle approached, Richard Nixon went
abroad to the Soviet Union and famously debated with charismatic
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Soviet leader Nikita Krushev over capitalism versus communism. It came
to be known as the Kitchen Debate, and Krushev claimed
the Soviets communism was a superior system. He believed they'd
easily leave American capitalism in the dust. Nixon handled the
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exchange diplomatically, as.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Far as mister Kruschev's comments just now, and they are
in the tradition we learned to expect from him speaking
extemporaneously and frankly whenever he has an opportunity, and I
am glad that he did so on our color television.
This mister Krushchev is the one of the the most
advanced developments in communication that we have, at.
Speaker 13 (31:08):
Least in our country.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
It is color television of cars, as you will see
in a few minutes, and we will see the very
picture of your speech and of my comments that has
been transmitted. It's one of the best means of communication
that has been developed. And I can only say that
if this competition which you have just described so effectively,
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in which you plan to outstrip us, and particularly in
the production of consumer goods, if this competition is to
do the best for both of our peoples and for
people everywhere, there must be a free exchange of ideas.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
The trip underscored Nixon's effectiveness on the global stage against communism,
with Nixon being the clear favorite to win the Republican nomination.
It was this success as an anti communist crusader that
the Democrat Party needed to answer in the nineteen sixty
and they found it in one of Nixon's former campaign donors.
Speaker 22 (32:07):
Let me say first that I accept the nomination of
the Democratic Party. I accepted without reservation and with only
one obligation, the obligation to devote every effort of my
mind and spirit to lead our party back to victory
and our nation to greatness.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
John Fitzgerald Kennedy traveled a familiar political road, just like Nixon.
After a short stint as a congressman, he became an
ambitious senator. But unlike Nixon, the Massachusetts native was born
into wealth. JFK was the perfect match. He better represented
a new beginning. Kennedy was four years younger than Nixon,
who'd been on the national stage for over a decade,
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and JFK had a similar view of the communist threat.
Speaker 22 (32:52):
Communist influence has penetrated Indu Asia. It stands in the
Middle East and now fested some ninety miles off the
coast of Florida. The harsh actually the matter that we
stand at this frontier, at a turning point of history.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
We must prove all over again.
Speaker 22 (33:11):
To a watching world, as we sit on a most
conspicuous stage, whether this nation, conceived as it is, whether
it's freedom of choice, it's breadth of opportunity, its range
of alternatives, can compete with a single minded advance of
the communist system.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Just weeks after JFK clinch the nomination, Nixon followed suit.
Speaker 13 (33:32):
One hundred years ago, Abraham Lincoln was asked, during the
dark days of the tragic war between the States whether
he thought God was on his side. His answer was,
my concern is not whether God is on our.
Speaker 23 (33:48):
Side, but whether we are.
Speaker 13 (33:51):
On God's side.
Speaker 23 (33:55):
My fellow Americans, may that ever be our prayer for
our country, And in that spirit, with faith in a man,
with faith in her ideals and in her people, I
accept your nomination for President of the United States.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
It was game on, and Nixon began to play up
as anti communism bona fides in national TV spots.
Speaker 13 (34:26):
Mister Nixon, what is the truth about our ability to
fight the growing menace of communism?
Speaker 21 (34:31):
Well, first, we must recognize communism for what it is.
Mister Khrushchev understands only strength and firmness. To apologize to
him just means weakness. When mister Krushchev says our grandchildren
will live under communism, we must answer his grandchildren will
live in freedom.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
But after just four weeks on the campaign, Nixon was
hospitalized for a knee injury. The media took advantage of
the opportunity, juxtaposing the young, energetic JFK traveling the country
with images of Nixon recovering in a hospital bed. A
few weeks after leaving the hospital. Nixon faced off with
JFK in the first nationally televised presidential debates.
Speaker 16 (35:12):
The candidates need no introduction, the Republican candidate Vice President
Richard M.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Nixon and the Democratic candidate Senator John F.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Kendidate JFK gave the first opening statement.
Speaker 24 (35:23):
In the election of eighteen sixty, Abraham Lincoln said, the
question was whether this nation could exist half slave or
half free.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
In the election of nineteen sixty, and with the.
Speaker 24 (35:33):
World around us, question is whether the world will exist
half slave or half free, whether it will move in
the direction of freedom, in the direction of the road
that we are taking, or whether it will move in
the direction of slavery.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Nixon was up next.
Speaker 17 (35:51):
The things that Senator Kennedy has said many of us
can agree with. There is no question but that this
nation cannot stand still because we are in a deadly competition,
a competition only with the men in the Kremlin, with
the men and peaking. We're a hit in this competition,
as Senator Kennedy I think is implied. It should have.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Been a slam dunk. Nixon was a TV veteran. He'd
saved his career in the Checker speech and was practically
a spokesman for the technology behind the Iron Curtain. But
before the debate he made a minor mistake that gave
an attack opening to the media. Nixon refused makeup, and
under the hot TV lights without powder to absorb it,
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he began to sweat. JFK, who was all dolled up,
did not.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
They've made such a big deal out of that debate
he had with JFK.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
That's an colter, author of the unsafe substack.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Where I mean television was kind of new. There are
bright lights. JFK is you know, all powdered up like
a girl, and Nixon, being I would say a little
more manly, said no powder please. So yeah, his face
got a little damp and oh he's sweating. He's so gross.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
The mea ran with it, claiming the young debonair JFK
was calm, cool and collected while tricky Dick was sweating
it out. A Nixon pressade would later highlight the media's
love affair with JFK.
Speaker 11 (37:14):
The press felt that a very closer kinship to mister Kennedy.
The senator was very good at dealing with the press.
He was very good socializing with him. I've never seen
more biased press, a more emotional press than in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Nixon attempted to counter the media narrative machine by appearing
with his wife on a popular TV show at the time,
person to person.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Mister Vice President, how do you do?
Speaker 20 (37:41):
How are you?
Speaker 25 (37:41):
Charles?
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Nice to hear from you in.
Speaker 10 (37:43):
A campaign as prolonged as this, with mounting fatigue and tensions,
it must be a terrible straind you ever.
Speaker 13 (37:50):
Got a full night's sleep?
Speaker 17 (37:52):
Very solemn?
Speaker 13 (37:53):
As a matter of fact, I usually try to sleep on.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Thursdays a come election night. The man from your Belinda
couldn't quite get over the finish line.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
I want Kennedy, and I want all of you to
know wrapped certainly if this trend does continue and he
does become our next president, but he will have my
wholehearted apart.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
By morning, Kennedy had a slim lead of one hundred
and thirteen thousand votes. Reports quickly surfaced of widespread voter
fraud in Illinois and Texas. Angry at the report, Eisenhower
reportedly volunteered to raise money to pay for a recount,
but Nixon, fearing a six month recount would tear the
country apart, refused to authorize it. JFK became the thirty
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fifth President of the United States.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
My congratulations to Senator Kennedy for his fine race in
this campaign.
Speaker 13 (38:47):
And to Oliver.
Speaker 17 (38:52):
Am I am sure.
Speaker 13 (38:54):
I am sure his supporters are just as enthusiastic as you.
Speaker 21 (38:57):
Are for me, and I thank you for that much.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Two years later, Nixon was urged to run for California
governor to keep his political career live. He accepted, but
the position almost appeared too small for the man that
conquered the international stage, and after a new barrage of
medius mirrors in the home state of Hollywood, Nixon lost
to Democrat incumbent Pat Brown. In his concession speech, he
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let the media have.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
It for once.
Speaker 13 (39:24):
Gentlemen, I would appreciate if you would write what I'm saying.
And as I leave the press, all I can say
is this, for sixteen years, ever since the his case,
you've had a lot of fun, a lot of fun.
You've had an opportunity to attack me, and I think
I've given as good as I've taken. But as I
leave you, I want you to know, just think how
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much you're going to be messing. You don't have Nexon
to kick around anymore, because gentlemen, this is my last
press conference, and I hope that what I have said
today will at least make television, radio, the press recognize
that they have a and a responsibility. They're against the candidate,
giv him the shaft, but also recognized, if they give
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him the shaft, put one lonely reporter on the campaign
who will report what the candidate says now, and then
thank you, gentlemen in good day.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
The ABC network validated his complaint by quickly rushing to
air with the documentary its title The Political Obituary of
Richard M. Nixon. Alger Hisss made an appearance on the
program criticizing the former vice president. The public was outraged
that ABC used a Soviet spy to smear Nixon. The
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outcry drove the show and its host off the air.
Public sympathy for the way the media treated Nixon began
to grow. After his defeat, the Nixon family moved to
New York City. Richard began practicing law again. As the
nineteen sixty four election approached, Republicans pressed him to enter
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the race against Lyndon B. Johnson, who'd become president after
JFK's assassination. Nixon no doubt saw it as an unwinnable race,
and he publicly declined.
Speaker 25 (41:16):
I have reached the conclusion that the best interest of
the party would be served for me not to become
a candidate, and that the best interest of the party
would be served for me to do what I am
doing at this convention, to speak for the nominee and
to attempt to unite the party behind the nominee. That
is my role at this convention, and that will be
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my role during the campaign.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
The nineteen sixty four Republican National Convention was a tumultuous
time for the party. A clash between moderate Republicans like
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and a conservative faction of
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the party led by Arizona Senator Barry goldwaterlled up on
the convention floor.
Speaker 16 (42:05):
Governor New York.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Is recognized Requirementutes and plase.
Speaker 13 (42:09):
Give him your attention.
Speaker 26 (42:10):
Precisely one year ago to day, on July fourteenth, nineteen
sixty three, I warned that the Republican Party is in
real danger of subversion by a radical, well financed, highly.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Discipline of goud.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Rockefeller could barely get through his speech In an attempt
to bring the party together, Richard Nixon was invited to
introduce the nominee, Barry Goldwater.
Speaker 17 (42:38):
He is the man who earned and proudly carries the
title of mister Conservative.
Speaker 6 (42:44):
And he is the man who, after the greatest campaign
in history, will be mister President, Barry gold.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
But as Barry Goldwater took the stage, it was clear
that the party was hopelessly fractured.
Speaker 10 (43:00):
I will remind you that trainaism in the defense of liberty.
Speaker 11 (43:06):
There's no vice.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
The Rockefeller Republicans abandoned Goldwater, but Richard Nixon stayed by
his side, vigorously campaigning for the GOP nominee. But come
election Day nineteen sixty four, Goldwater experienced a crushing defeat,
garnering roughly thirty eight percent of the vote to l
BJ's sixty one percent. The GOP were slaughtered in Washington,
(43:46):
d C. As well. With only one hundred and forty
House seats and thirty two Senate seats, it was reduced
to half the size of the Democrats. On the state level,
it held only seventeen governorships. The GOP was annihilated and
a cultural revolution was under way. A Marxist movement had
just taken root in the nation, and there is a
(44:07):
serious question of whether the GOP would even survive. This
was the state of the Republican Party in nineteen sixty four,
and it would set the stage for one of the
greatest comebacks in American political history.
Speaker 27 (44:22):
Coming up on Red Pilled America, a teenager held up
a sign, bring us together, and that will be the
great objective of this administration at the outset to bring
the American people together.
Speaker 15 (44:35):
Inside the courtroom, Senator Kennedy rose to face Judge James
Boyle and the court clerk while the charge was read.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
How do you plead?
Speaker 25 (44:42):
Asked the clerk.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
Kennedy bowed his head and said softly guilty.
Speaker 14 (44:47):
What can or will he do to preserve his potential
as a candidate for president of the United States?
Speaker 28 (44:52):
Democratic officials today held a series of meetings to talk
about tighter security at the national headquarters here in Washington.
They admit there isn't much they can do about the
break in, but they hope to come up with something.
Speaker 21 (45:03):
All three branches of government secretly linked arms to avoid
nextion's landslide re election.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
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