Good morning, Whitewater.
It’s the first day of autumn. Google has a doodle to mark the change of season —
Tuesday will be sunny in Whitewater, with a high of seventy-four. Sunrise is 6:43 AM and sunset is 6:50 PM. We’ll have a new moon early tomorrow morning.
Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets this afternoon at 4:30 PM.
On this day in 1952, Sen. Richard Nixon, candidate for vice president, delivers his Checkers speech:
Los Angeles, Sept. 23–Senator Richard M. Nixon, in a nation-wide television and radio broadcast tonight, defended his $18,235 “supplementary expenditures” fund as legally and morally beyond reproach.
He laid before the Republican National Committee and the American people the question of whether he should remain on the Republican party’s November election ticket as the candidate for Vice President.
Rising, near the end of his talk, from the desk at which he had sat, Senator Nixon urged his auditors to “wire and write” the Republican National Committee whether they thought his explanation of the circumstances surrounding the fund was adequate.
“I know that you wonder whether or not I am going to stay on the Republican ticket or resign,” he said. “I don’t believe that I ought to quit, because I’m not a quitter….”
Nixon remained on the ticket; as expected, Dwight Eisenhower won easily over Adlai Stevenson.
Google-a-Day has a question about literature and history:
What Tom Wolfe novel is named after a 1497 ritual that Savonarola led involving mirrors?