Nixon's Checkers Speech

On this day in 1952, Vice Presidential candidate Richard Nixon went on national TV to, financially speaking, bare it all... With allegations of unethical behavior mounting over a campaign fund he had used for political expenses, Nixon took it upon himself to personally disclose all the details of his family accounting, including the gift for which the speech would be named: Checkers, a cocker-spaniel from Texas. And you know what? We're going to keep it.