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Not even Nixon would stoop so low

Summary by Salon
After Donald Trump’s cringe-worthy interaction with school-aged children in the Oval Office on Tuesday to promote his administration’s revival of the Presidential Fitness Test, I got a phone call from an aging former Republican officeholder who said seeing Trump interact with kids was like watching Richard Nixon’s “Checkers Speech.” He was referring to a televised address that Nixon, then a California senator and Dwight Eisenhower’s running mate…

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Salon broke the news in San Francisco, United States on Friday, May 8, 2026.
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