Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Sept. 24, 1952, wrapping up the televised speech Richard Nixon gave ahead of the ...

Ohio University professor Mattson (When America Was Great) looks back at Nixon as a whistle-stop “political salesman” in this panoramic exploration of egghead politics, Hollywood films, television ...

For students of political history and anyone of a certain age, Richard Nixon's so-called "Checkers speech" has a special place on the continuum of campaign oratory. This was master manipulation in the ...

From Yorba Linda to the White House, this chapter traces how Nixon’s insecurity, ambition, and Cold War worldview hardened into a politics of suspicion. It follows the pivotal moments, from the ...