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people start to wonder, why is it adlai stevenson attacking richard nixon for being this guy with a secret fund? and again, this may surprise you, but adlai stevenson had a fun. not only did he have a fund, that he had a fund 10 times the size of richard nixon. now i read the authorized biography and how she used this fund on really important things like one of his sons birthday parties. does that sound a little strange to you read this ban will be using a trust fund for his son s birthday party. richard nixon had to explain in detail that this fund wasn t meant for anything. either way, $18,235. he couldn t even write a check on the fund. it was in somebody else s name. the only thing that richard nixon could do was send invoices and to dana smith who was the trustee and dana smith wrote the check. again, i know this may be somewhat surprising, but none of them added to nixon s salary. none of them helped nixon have been made. none of them brought close for richard nix ....
so they were searching for anything that they could use to somehow debilitate the 1952 campaign, and debilitating the 52 campaign was really simple. if richard nixon has a secret fund and is using it to live beyond his standard of living, get rid of him. have him fired. and the demand that he be fired again, i hope this is not shocking to you was the chairman of the dnc. now, white not? if why not? if i were the chairman of the dnc and i had something that i thought was wonderful to work over my opponent, i would use it. and he certainly did. he called for richard nixon to be fired. of course, there was a couple of problems. first problem, there was nothing that said anybody could get rid of the vice president of the united states. two, there was nothing that said that dwight eisenhower could get rid of richard nixon. and, like so many other problems when you have a ticket, if you did get rid of richard nixon as vice president, then you would have to st ....
the march of progress westward. doing the smallpox book i come across this huge population of out in the middle of north dakota. at the time of the revolution, population hub bigger than charleston, south carolina, the fourth biggest city on the atlantic seaboard and i just said holy cow, what if we told this story of america from the center of the continent? what if we called this is american history and this is the quintessential american story. thank you dear i ll stop there. [applause] you are watching booktv, television for serious readers. watch a program you see here online at booktv.org. irwin gellman is next on booktv. he recalls the relationship between president dwight eisenhower and his vice president richard nixon. so not her speaker. our speaker tonight is pretty brilliant. irwin gellman is an author of books on for presidents. is taught at uc irvine chapman university and out franklin and marshall college in pennsylvania. he authored a book on pre ....
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a big change to our forecast coming up. palmetto expressway we still have this accident scene right off of 58th street. you see police right there, the flashing lights to the distance blocking one lane of traffic but overall not affecting your commute at all. a closer look at our traffic data here. we can look and see if there are any repepted slowdowns with this one. from our graphics there are none. 65 to 66 miles per hour so that s the good news there. we do have some reports of slowdowns. looks likeoth northbound and southbound lanes here at okeechobee road right at the turnpike we re seeing slowdowns between 12 and 30 miles an hour. that s normal congestion for this time of the morning. those speeds at about 36 miles per hour. again broward county still accident-free. breaking news to report right nowow the ten navy sailors taken into custody in iran have bee released. captured after their two boats drifted into iranian waters. that capture happened days before ....