Today is National
Checkers Day. Nixon’s dog Checkers came
to mind. September 23, 1952, Nixon gave
his famous “Checkers speech”. Nixon was
then a candidate for vice-president and found himself in hot water because he
was accused of improprieties of campaign funds.
His approval ratings were losing points.
He called a press
conference and said some people were critical of him accepting the dog Checkers as a gift. He said they named it Checkers. He went on to say how cute Checkers was, and
Pat and the girls loved it. And
regardless of criticism he gets, They were going to keep it.
It was a stroke
of genius of feeling the public’s pulse.
Checkers had nothing to do with the campaign funds. The public fell for the heart-warming story. The public loves dogs. His approval ratings went up and he was elected vice president. I think his running mate Ike probably privately shook his head.
I think Trump
needs to get a dog.
No comments:
Post a Comment