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Dwight eisenhower. they both knew how to be humble. he is going to have to somehow find the humility and really almost plead for forgiveness in a way and talk from the heart in a way we've never seen him do. remember when barack obama had the jeremiah wright issue and he got in front of it. nixon with the checkers speech. he's got to do something very special to bring women back into the republican fold. >> and clearly that's going to be a huge challenge at the debate tomorrow night, 24 hours from now. we'll see if he can do it. stand by with us. trump's offensive comments on the 2005 recordin...

Came through, they don't -- there's so little credit for that. >> the folks may understand it. you see the folks didn't understand the checkers speech but the people did. i mean, the commentators didn't and the commentators didn't understand cambodia but the people did. >> the hell with the commentator. >> presidential historian doug brinkley is a professor at rice university's eisenhower center for american studies. he joins us now from austin, texas. this is classic richard nixon, blasting away agnew-like at the commentators, yet he was probably as right as he ever was in his life when he sa...

The issue of romney's disclosure returned to the headlines just this weekend. after the republican presidential candidate as promised released his 2011 tax return and no more. and democrats once again echoed the charge that richard nixon first made 60 years ago -- nondisclosure only means one thing -- he's got something to hide. michael isikoff, nbc news, washington. eight years after the checkers speech, nixon faced off with jfk in the first-ever televised debate. that is then, an absolute game-changer in presidential politics. coming up in the next hour, we'll talk about how we could see a...

About it, we're going to keep it. >> well, sunday marks the 60th anniversary of the checkers speech, the defining moment in political transparency and survival. it comes as mitt romney released what will be two years of tax returns but not the 12 his father put out os the ones nixon say we all should put out. michael isikoff is reporting on this anniversary and jeff riff franks the author of "ike and dick, portrait of a strange political marriage." i remember when nixon was making the demand all politicians should release the facts about tax returns and everything else. nixon was saying to ike...

We're back. it was in september of 1952 that richard nixon gave the most important speech of his life, the checkers speech. nixon was eisenhower's running mate as vice president facing heat for a fund that had been uncovered when he was raising money for his political expenses. so he took to the airways to disclose every dollar he owed, for the banks for his mortgages, the loan off his life insurance, the money he borrowed from his parents even, but it was a gift that he refused to return that made him so famous. he said an unexpected package was sent to the family one day. >> do you know what...