Dan Beaver’s Reviews > Richard Nixon: The Life > Status Update

I just finished the chapter on the "Checkers" speech. And even today, knowing just what a colossal crook he was, the biggest crook until Trump came along, Nixon was masterful in how he constructed this response. I understand the concept of "grudging respect." For Nixon, that is.

Set up spies in [Voorhis] camp ... Corrupt from his very first senatorial campaign.