○  richard m. nixon: checkers  ○

and bare your life, as i've done. but i want to say some things before i conclude, that i think most of you will agree on. mr. mitchell, the chairman of the democratic national committee, made this statement that if a man couldn't afford to be in the united states senate, he shouldn't run for the senate. and i just want to make my position clear. i don't agree with mr. mitchell when he says that only a rich man should serve his government in the united states senate or in the congress. i don't believe that represents the thinking of the democratic party, and i know that it doesn't represent the thinking of the republican party.

i believe that it's fine that a man like governor stevenson, who inherited a fortune from his father, can run for president. but i also feel that it's essential in this country of ours that a man of modest means can also run for president, because, you know, remember abraham lincoln, you remember what he said: "god must have loved the common people -- he made so many of them."

and now i'm going to suggest some courses of conduct. first of all, you have read in the papers about other funds, now, mr. stevenson apparently had a couple. one of them in which a group of business people paid and helped to supplement the salaries of state employees. here is where the money went directly into their pockets, and i think that what mr. stevenson should do should be to come before the american people, as i have, give the names of the people that contributed to that fund, give the names of the people who put this money into their pockets at the same time that they were receiving money from their state government and see what favors, if any, they gave out for that.

i don't condemn mr. stevenson for what he did, but until the facts are in there is a doubt that will be raised. and as far as mr. sparkman is concerned, i would suggest the same thing. he's had his wife on the pay ro

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