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Richard Milhouse Nixon was born in nineteen thirteen.

Democratic presidents.

Before Nixon, they were taping journalists.

To soothe his broken heart, he turned to hard work at the family market.

He proposed the first night he met her.

He excelled at everything.

Commoner's Party of the United States is a fifth column, if they ever was one.

We will not knowingly employ a communist.

The battle between Whittaker, Chambers and Algeris, I don't think there's been anything like it.

I am holding in my hand a microfilm, a very highly confidential secret.

And Richard Milhouse Nixon was the one that uncovered them.

It's an electric moment.

It proves that Algeris has been lying.

Why are Hollywood in the media so obsessed with Nixon.

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We're at part two of our series 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 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, 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.

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, 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 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 took a surprising position.

The nineteen fifteen Nixon Douglas race was considered.

A toss up.

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 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, 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 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, 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.

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 early nineteen fifty one, their massive trial was under way.

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 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.

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.

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.

Ike as he was known, saw the communist threat as the paramount concern of the time.

It has been a global threat manifesting itself from the parties to Europe in outward extensions throughout the vast referee of the Soviet domain.

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.

A tumultuous convention greets the nomination of the General who has become mister Eisenhower following his resignation from the army.

A second ovation.

Follows when Senator Noland of California a tribute to the vice presidential nominee, and.

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.

Ike was the steady old hand Richard Milhouse.

Nixon was the young up and comer who is a relentless anti communist.

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.

And before I've both seen.

With the thought that I should like to address briefly to you, May I have the tamarity to congratulate this convention on the selection.

Of their nominee for Vice President.

A man who has shown states when my quality is in many ways, but as a special talent, an ability.

To ferret out any.

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.

Or freedom in America and freedom in the world.

I know something of the solemn responsibility of leading a crusade.

I have led one.

I take up this task.

Therefore, in the spirit of deep obligation, mindful of its burdens and of its decisive importance, I accept your summons.

I will lead this.

For the first time he stands before the American public as a civilian seeking the highest political office.

In the land.

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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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, 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.

Ladies and gentlemen, our guest on Meet the Press as Senator Richard Nixon, Republican of California.

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.

Sigh for President, Thie for President, Heige for President.

He thought President, you liked Pi.

Everybody li Siglore President.

Wednesday, I do Washington.

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 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 broadcast for Nixon to plead his case directly to the American people.

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.

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.

Ladies and gentlemen, Senator Richard Nixon.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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, but which are primarily political business.

Nixon confessed he wasn't a rich man.

He could not just write a check to pay for campaign related expenses.

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 home state of California who contributed to my campaign and who continued to make these contributions after I was elected, were glad to.

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.

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.

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.

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 fifty olds mobile car.

We have our furniture.

We have no stocks and bonds of any time.

And his wife Pat wasn't spared either.

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.

Nixon's daughter Julie would later recount the humiliation felt by her mother.

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.

It was a question of.

There in integrity that she's never gotten over.

Richard then used storytelling to drive home his common man message.

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 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, 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.

Richard Nixon viewed the whole affair as a media smear campaign.

And this speech included a hint to his disdain for the narrative machine.

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.

Well, they just don't know who they're dealing with.

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 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.

He then made a plea to the American people.

He wanted them, not the media, to decide his fate.

I don't believe that I ought to quit, because I'm not a quitter.

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.

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.

Will help for her.

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.

Abide by.

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.

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.

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.

Come election day in nineteen fifty two, the duo was unstoppable.

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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As vice President for a second term, Richard was perfectly poised for a future run at the White House.

He traveled to Caracas, Venezuela, where his anti communist legend would grow.

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 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.

As as motorcade traveled through the city, it was attacked by a communist mob.

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.

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.

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.

The event almost caused an international incident.

President Eisenhower actually mobilized forces for a potential invasion of Venezuela if Nixon were attacked again.

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.

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.

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.

Five.

Said Adams on his own behalf.

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 upon such conduct.

I can only say that the era was one of judgment and not of intent.

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.

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.

I need him.

As the investigation into Adams intensified, I had to make a tough decision.

Nixon later recalled the time.

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.

He decided he had to go.

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.

Eisenhower called me in and asked me to talk to Sherman.

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 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 exchange diplomatically, as.

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.

Least in our country.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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, and JFK had a similar view of the communist threat.

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.

We must prove all over again.

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.

Just weeks after JFK clinch the nomination, Nixon followed suit.

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.

Side, but whether we are.

On God's side.

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.

It was game on, and Nixon began to play up as anti communism bona fides in national TV spots.

Mister Nixon, what is the truth about our ability to fight the growing menace of communism?

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.

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.

The candidates need no introduction, the Republican candidate Vice President Richard M.

Nixon and the Democratic candidate Senator John F.

Kendidate JFK gave the first opening statement.

In the election of eighteen sixty, Abraham Lincoln said, the question was whether this nation could exist half slave or half free.

In the election of nineteen sixty, and with the.

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.

Nixon was up next.

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.

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, he began to sweat.

JFK, who was all dolled up, did not.

They've made such a big deal out of that debate he had with JFK.

That's an colter, author of the unsafe substack.

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.

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.

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.

Nixon attempted to counter the media narrative machine by appearing with his wife on a popular TV show at the time, person to person.

Mister Vice President, how do you do?

How are you?

Charles?

Nice to hear from you in.

A campaign as prolonged as this, with mounting fatigue and tensions, it must be a terrible straind you ever.

Got a full night's sleep?

Very solemn?

As a matter of fact, I usually try to sleep on.

Thursdays a come election night.

The man from your Belinda couldn't quite get over the finish line.

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.

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 fifth President of the United States.

My congratulations to Senator Kennedy for his fine race in this campaign.

And to Oliver.

Am I am sure.

I am sure his supporters are just as enthusiastic as you.

Are for me, and I thank you for that much.

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 let the media have.

It for once.

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 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 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.

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 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 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.

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 my role during the campaign.

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 the party led by Arizona Senator Barry goldwaterlled up on the convention floor.

Governor New York.

Is recognized Requirementutes and plase.

Give him your attention.

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.

Discipline of goud.

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.

He is the man who earned and proudly carries the title of mister Conservative.

And he is the man who, after the greatest campaign in history, will be mister President, Barry gold.

But as Barry Goldwater took the stage, it was clear that the party was hopelessly fractured.

I will remind you that trainaism in the defense of liberty.

There's no vice.

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, 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 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.

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.

Inside the courtroom, Senator Kennedy rose to face Judge James Boyle and the court clerk while the charge was read.

How do you plead?

Asked the clerk.

Kennedy bowed his head and said softly guilty.

What can or will he do to preserve his potential as a candidate for president of the United States?

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.

All three branches of government secretly linked arms to avoid nextion's landslide re election.

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