after reading jeff s excellent book, we all remember about checkers, we remember it about nixon fighting for his survival but the issue was financial disclosure, about putting everything on the table, telling everything about his finances. that s what nixon was doing. that was the spirit of the checkers speech. that resonates right to the 2012 campaign. what was so fascinating about it is after you read it through after nixon goes through this litany and naming his oldsmobile, his mortgage, how much he owes his mothers. after that he says let s talk about the democrats. he makes a sly reference to add lie stevenson s wealth. he says it s time for them to do the same thing, release every detail about their finances and