"speech" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Nixon successfully defused the Fund crisis with his Checkers speech.
- However, Nixon saved his political career with a Checkers speech on live television.
- Checkers speech has come more generally to mean any emotional speech by a politician.
- He angrily responded with a phrase which would be echoed in the Checkers speech.
- Other commentators suggested that had he not made the Checkers speech, Nixon might have won in 1960.
- Nixon retorted that without the Checkers speech, he would not have been around to run in 1960.
- Had this star been nominated and then won, his words of thanks might have been the most anticipated televised oration since the Checkers speech.
- The address, later termed the Checkers speech, was heard by about 60 million Americans-including the largest television audience up to that point.
- He saved himself politically in the famous 1952 "Checkers" speech by what he said, and meant, before millions of television viewers.
- Some say he should deliver a modern "Checkers" speech, putting the character questions on the table.
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