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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...

Was saying to ike, you phony s.o.b., you won't put out all this information, and i'm out here on the cooker having to explain my finances. >> nixon knew just what he was doing. he had no idea what eisenhower did not want to reveal, which was that namely eisenhower had gotten a great tax deal himself. his memoir "crusading europe" had earned him $50,000, and he paid the capital gains tax, not income tax. so ike didn't want the whole world to know about that. watching nixon right now, you realize how extraordinarily -- what an extraordinary speech it was. he was under such amazing pressure. here...

All kids, love the dog, and i just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we're going to keep it. >> well, sunday, this sunday marks the 60th anniversary of the checkers speech, a defining moment in political transparency, and, of course, survival, and it comes just as mitt romney 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 marri...