○  richard m. nixon: checkers  ○

danger. and i think the only man that can save america at this time is the man that's running for president, on my ticket -- dwight eisenhower. you say, "why do i think it is in danger?" and i say, look at the record. seven years of the truman-acheson administration, and what's happened? six hundred million people lost to communists. and a war in korea in which we have lost 117,000 american casualties, and i say to all of you that a policy that results in the loss of 600 million people to the communists, and a war that cost us 117,000 american casualties isn't good enough for america. and i say that those in the state department that made the mistakes which caused that war and which resulted in those losses should be kicked out of the state department just as fast as we get them out of there.

and let me say that i know mr. stevenson won't do that because he defends the truman policy, and i know that dwight eisenhower will do that, and that he will give america the leadership that it needs. take the problem of corruption. you've read about the mess in washington. mr. stevenson can't clean it up because he was picked by the man, truman, under whose administration the mess was made.

you wouldn't trust the man who made the mess to clean it up. that's truman. and by the same token you can't trust the man who was picked by the man who made the mess to clean it up and that's stevenson. and so i say, eisenhower, who owes nothing to truman, nothing to the big city bosses -- he is the man that can clean up the mess in washington. take communism. i say that as far as that subject is concerned the danger is great to america. in the hiss case they got the secrets which enabled them to break the american secret state department code. they got secrets in the atomic bomb case which enabled them to get the secret of the atomic bomb five years before they would have gotten it by their own devices. and i say that any man who called

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