○  richard m. nixon: checkers  ○

the democratic ticket, does have his wife on the pay roll and has had her on his pay roll for the past ten years. now let me just say this: that' his business, and i'm not critical of him for doing that. you will have to pass judgment on that particular point.

but i have never done that for this reason: i have found that there are so many deserving stenographers and secretaries in washington that needed the work that i just didn't feel it was right to put my wife on the pay roll. my wife's sitting over here. she is a wonderful stenographer. she used to teach stenography and she used to teach shorthand in high school. that was when i met her. and i can tell you folks that she's worked many hours at night and many hours on saturdays and sundays in my office, and she's done a fine job, and i am proud to say tonight that in the six years i have been in the house and the senate of the united states, pat nixon has never been on the government pay roll.

what are other ways that these finances can be taken care of? some who are lawyers, and i happen to be a lawyer, continue to practice law, but i haven't been able to do that. i am so far away from california that i have been so busy with my senatorial work that i have not engaged in any legal practice, and, also, as far as law practice is concerned, it seemed to me that the relationship between an attorney and the client was so personal that you couldn't possibly represent a man as an attorney and then have an unbiased view when he presented his case to you in the event that he had one before government.

and so i felt that the best way to handle these necessary political expenses of getting my message to the american people and the speeches i made -- the speeches i had printed for the most part concerned this one message of exposing this administration, the communism in it, the corruption in it -- the only way that i could do that was to accept

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