melissa murray in for mehd hassan for nearly half a century it was an obvious, clear norm if you wanted to be th president of the united states you had to show the american public where your money came from it was a norm that began amazingly, with richard nixo during the watergate scandal i 1973, when nixon released hi tax returns to fight off accusations of corruption. in fact, it was nixon s ta filings sparked one of the mos famous quotes in america politics i look on this kind o examination because people hav got to know whether or not their president as a crook, am not a crook, i have earne everything i have got. since then, every america president has released their tax returns or a summary o their taxes. well, all but one. and, you know which one. and you know why, or, at least his explanation of why i will absolutely give my return but i am being audite for two or three years, so, cannot do it until the audit i finished, obviously. it is under, i i will revisit
I was part of a great team the company put together to discus melody and how she would b represented. that included the great civi rights leader julian bond, i included joanne watson, who is a minister and a former detroi city councilman who had grow up in a period when melody was representing it included doctor gloria hous who is a great african america woman poet based in detroit. we really tried, as a group, t bring different vantage points to how melody would be represented in how her story would be told. so, joanne talked about he childhood in detroit, and whil we looked at swatches of fabri she said no one would wear tha to church on sunday, and she would recommend something else we were really in the proces of consulting, trying to com up with something that i historically accurate an compelling i think that was definitely th