No, I Really Am Not a Crook
- Nixon opens by announcing his candidacy for the Vice Presidency. Because surely the sixty million viewers and listeners wouldn't know about it, right?
- He then gives a sort of rambling discussion on why this office is a great office, and how he would hate to besmirch its good name.
- This leads to his only direct remarks about the "secret" fund, which this address is supposedly intended to clear up. He denies all the accusations, and explains that the fund was purely to relieve the good tax-paying people from suffering the burden of his political expenses.
- Nixon explains alternative methods of paying for such expenses, like being a rich guy. This is mostly a pretext to get in some "definitely not criticizing, but just saying" attacks on his opponents.
- Nixon provides the written testimony of a third party audit by lawyers and accountants as proof of the legality and totally above-board nature of the fund.