○  richard m. nixon: checkers  ○

f the $18,000 or any other money of that type ever went to me for my personal use. every penny of it was used to pay for political expenses that i did not think should be charged to the taxpayers of the united states.  it was not a secret fund. as a matter of  fact, when i was on "meet the press"-- some of you may have seen it last sunday -- peter edson came up to me after the program, and he said, "dick, what about is fund we hear about?" and i said, "well, there is no secret about it. go out and see dana smith who was the administrator of the fund." and i gave him [edson] his [smith's] address. and i said you will find that the purpose of the fund simply was to defray political expenses that i did not feel should be charged to the government. and third, let me point out -- and i want to make this particularly clear -- that no contributor to this fund, no contributor to any of my campaigns, has ever received any consideration that he would not have received as an ordinary constituent.

i just don't believe in that, and i can say that never, while i have been in the senate of the united states, as far as the people that contributed to this fund are concerned, have i made a telephone call for them to an agency, or have i gone down to an agency on their behalf. and the records will show that, the records which are in the hands of the administration.

well, then, some of you will say, and rightly, "well, what did you use the fund for, senator? why did you have to have it?" let me tell you in just a word how a senate office operates. first of all, a senator gets $15,000 a year in salary. he gets enough money to pay for one trip a year, a round trip, that is, for himself, and his family between his home and washington, d.c. and then he gets an allowance to handle the people that work in his office to handle his mail. and the al

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