Checkers Speech Quizzes
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Checkers Speech? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Why did Nixon get the VP nomination?
To satisfy the Old Guard republican leaders.
Nobody else wanted the job.
He beat Kefauver in an arm-wrestling match.
Eisenhower personally demanded that Nixon be on the ticket.
Q. How did Stevenson campaign for the Democratic nomination?
On a populist program aimed at unions and labor
By running a vicious campaign of mudslinging and slander
He didn't
With bribery and rampant voter fraud
Q. Why didn't Truman seek reelection?
He thought he was too old.
He regretted Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
He wanted to spend more time with his family.
He was hugely unpopular and would never have won.
Q. How did Pat Nixon feel about the speech?
She loved opening up their personal life to the world.
She was ashamed to reveal so much of their financial history.
She was the mastermind behind the whole speech.
She was angry she didn't get more mention.
Q. How did the Checkers Speech affect the rest of Nixon's career?
It had no impact beyond 1952.
Nixon became a champion for the poor.
It saved his career but gave him a rep for being defensive and sappy.
It made him a friend of the media.