Ohio University professor Mattson (When America Was Great) looks back at Nixon as a whistle-stop “political salesman” in this panoramic exploration of egghead politics, Hollywood films, television ...

David Dubin of Lindenhurst's Studio Theatre says it's a coincidence that he opened "Checkers," the pre-presidential Richard Nixon drama by Douglas McGrath, on June 5. That's the date, 47 years ago, ...

For students of political history and anyone of a certain age, Richard Nixon's so-called "Checkers speech" has a special place on the continuum of campaign oratory. This was master manipulation in the ...

CHICAGO - Lou Carrol, the "man down in Texas" who gave then-vice presidential hopeful Richard Nixon the dog that inspired the famous Checkers Speech, has died. He was 83. Carrol, a resident of the ...