Websites
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Exactly what it says on the tin. The Nixon Library has everything you want to know about the guy and his story.
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A history prof at Texas A&M has been publishing the Nixon tapes as they became available. You can binge-listen to the tapes or read the transcripts.
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He really was a crook.
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Nixon did some cool stuff while he was in politics. There's a website devoted to his positive legacy, too.
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Yes, there is a Presidential Pet Museum, at which we learn that Checkers lived to see the White House.
Articles and Interviews
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A decent overview of the Checkers Speech and its continued significance.
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A solid summary of the speech and its surrounding context, as well as a look at why it's still important.
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On what would have been the 100th birthday year of Richard and Pat Nixon, The New Yorker magazine lays out two ways of looking at the Checkers Speech.
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In 2012, Douglas McGrath wrote a play about the whole Checkers affair.
Video
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Forgive the potato quality; it was 1952 after all.
Audio
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Here's an interview discussing the case that started Nixon's career: his prosecution of Alger Hiss, suspected Soviet spy. The site has a blog with lots of other podcasts, mostly positive, about Nixon.
Books
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Someone did.
Images
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The type of propaganda that the Nixons produced in order to keep up their perfectly happy all-American family image.
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Here's Pat Nixon watching her husband give the Checkers speech.
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It was totally worth it.