abstract:The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952 by the Republican vice presidential candidate, California Senator Richard Nixon. Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him for his political expenses.
If Watergate made it axiomatic that the coverup trumps the crime, the Checkersspeech can be regarded as an occasion when a style of exculpation proved more memorable than the substance of an accusation.
This will include scanning and speech synthesiser equipment and hand-held spell checkers - and in some cases, pupils will be able to keep equipment for use in work when they leave school.