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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...

His memoir earned him $650,000 and he paid a capital gains tax on it, not an income tax. he was under amazing pressure. here's this 39-year-old junior senator from california, the running mate for the most beloved man in america, the man who had led the allied expeditionary force, the five-star general, the legendary dwight d. eisenhower, and he was really, really trying to survive. >> i agree with everything you say, jeff. i have very interesting feels about richard nixon, he's a complicated guy, we all studied the guy. not to meet his father's standards, the 12 years he put out is one thing ...

>> 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 refer...

The cooker having to explain all my finances. >> he had no idea what eisenhower did not want to reveal, which was that eisenhower had a great tax deal himself. his memoir earned him $650,000 and he paid a capital gains tax on it, not an income tax. he was under amazing pressure. here's this 39-year-old junior senator from california, the running mate for the most beloved man in america, the man who had led the allied expeditionary force, the five-star general, the legendary dwight d. eisenhower, and he was really, really trying to survive. >> i agree with everything you say, jeff. i have very ...

The guy. not to meet his father's standards, the 12 years he put out is one thing but not to meet nixon's standards, that's a tough one. >> 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 financi 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 lita...