○  richard m. nixon: checkers  ○

tly to third persons, nor the portion paid to senator nixon, to reimburse him for designated office expenses, constituted income to the senator which was either reportable or taxable as income under applicable tax laws."

          (signed)

          gibson, dunn, & crutcher,

          by elmo h. conley

now that, my friends, is not nixon speaking, but that's an independent audit which was requested, because i want the american people to know all the facts, and i am not afraid of having independent people go in and check the facts, and that is exactly what they did. but then i realized that there are still some who may say, and rightly so -- and let me say that i recognize that some will continue to smear regardless of what the truth may be -- but that there has been understandably, some honest misunderstanding on this matter, and there are some that will say, "well, maybe you were able, senator, to fake the thing. how can we believe what you say? after all, is there a possibility that maybe you got some sums in cash? is there a possibility that you might have feathered your own nest?" and so now, that i am going to do -- and incidentally this is unprecedented in the history of american politics -- i am going at this time to give to this television and radio audience, a complete financial history, everything i've earned, everything i've spent, everything i own. and i want you to know the facts.

i'll have to start early. i was born in 1913. our family was one of modest circumstances, and most of my early life was spent in a store out in east whittier. it was a grocery store, one of those family enterprises. the only reason we were able to make it go was because my mother and dad had

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