Yakyu Night Owl on Nostr: Being born with the guy who made a 1952 television speech about a dog named Checkers ...

Being born with the guy who made a 1952 television speech about a dog named Checkers to distract from other improprieties, gained the Veep role under Ike that year, lost to Kennedy in 1960, then took full advantage of assasinations to win in 1968, it only seems that way.

What Nixon did next was going to be in the political soap opera lexicon for the rest of the century.