Stick It to the Democrats
- Nixon turns the tables on his accusers, calling out Stevenson for his own slush funds and suggesting he identify everyone who contributed to that fund.
- He mentions that Sparkman put his own wife on his payroll.
- Not that there's anything wrong with that—that's his right—but he himself has never put Pat on the payroll. She does her work as a faithful volunteer. There are plenty of other women who need paid jobs.
- His opponents should go on TV and do what he did: make a complete and honest financial accounting to the American people. If they don't, it means they have something to hide.
- Nixon acknowledges that no matter what he says tonight, the smear campaign against him will continue.
- He brings up the Alger Hiss trial, and how he persevered through those "dark days" (161) with the conviction that he was right, just like he's right again now.
- And why does he feel so deeply? Why has he come on TV and bared his soul?
- Because he loves his country. Because he hates those dirty rotten Communists and how they resent us for our freedom. Because Eisenhower would take a strong stance against Communist aggression, while Stevenson's likely to get chummy with them.
- He reminds everyone that Stevenson thought that pursuing Alger Hiss was a bad thing and that he doesn't take the communist threat seriously.
- Nixon laundry lists all the appalling and terrible crimes of the Democratic administration, laying pretty much every problem of the last half decade squarely at their feet. Communism has spread around the globe; American soldiers have died in Korea; the government is corrupt to the core.
- Nixon reads a heartwarming letter sent to him by a young woman, a wife of a soldier in Korea, who desperately believes in Nixon and his crusades, and has scrounged up ten dollars to help him win the election. Nixon graciously refuses to cash her check.
- Nixon brings up the question of whether he should remain on the Republican ticket, and says he'll abide by the RNC's decision.
- He implores listeners to write in and tell the Republican Party if they want him on the ticket. Many viewers, their willpower now utterly drained by the sustained assault on their ability to resist sappiness, oblige.
- Nixon finishes his address by reiterating how awesome Eisenhower is, and that even if he isn't the running mate, it's Eisenhower who's most fit to defend America from communism.