{"id":41236,"date":"2016-09-23T01:43:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T05:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41236"},"modified":"2016-09-23T01:43:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T05:43:27","slug":"national-checkers-day-and-dogs-in-politics-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/09\/national-checkers-day-and-dogs-in-politics-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Checkers Day and Dogs In Politics Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41237\" title=\"RichardNixoandhisdogCheckers\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RichardNixoandhisdogCheckers-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RichardNixoandhisdogCheckers-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/RichardNixoandhisdogCheckers.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On September 23, 1952, Vice President Candidate, Richard Nixon, gave a speech that was called the \u201cCheckers Speech\u201d. \u00a0Accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him for his political expenses, Nixon needed to defend himself. \u00a0His place on the Republican ticket was in jeopardy as well, so he flew to Los Angeles and delivered a half-hour television address. \u00a0It was in this speech that Nixon stated that regardless of what anyone said, he intended to keep one gift; a black-and-white dog the Nixon children had named \u201cCheckers\u201d, thus giving the speech its famous name.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cCheckers Speech\u201d was seen, or heard, by about 60 million Americans, the largest television audience at that time, and it led to an outpouring of public support.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Checkers, Nixon made the ticket and we\u00a0celebrate Dogs in Politics Day or better known as National Checkers Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 23, 1952, Vice President Candidate, Richard Nixon, gave a speech that was called the \u201cCheckers Speech\u201d. \u00a0Accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}