Checkers at Echo Lake Camp.
It was a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate that he'd sent all the
way from Texas. Black and white spotted. And our little girl-Tricia, the
6-year old-named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love
the dog and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what
they say about it, we're gonna keep it.
Richard Nixon September 23, 1952