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mooreandrew58 posted...

"Jimmy Carter was an awful president. I'd rather take a Nixon."

Nixon did keep all his campaign promises if I recall, so he was honest to a degree. and I don't recall him even being that involved in the scandal, just that he knew about it and didn't say anything is what got him thrown under the bus.

Nixon was scandal-prone in general. He cut a great promo about a dog to deflect claims of corruption:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers_speech

(Full speech is like half an hour, but the best part is the eponymous Checkers moment.)

One other thing I probably should tell you because if we 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 on 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 on this campaign trip we got a message from Union Station in 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 in a crate that he'd sent all the way from Texas. Black and white spotted. And our little girl—Tricia, the 6-year-old—named it 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 it.
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