used to be
that politicians
the big thing that they did was present themselves as average people
folks
part of the american middle class
or at least in the case of a rich guy like franklin roosevelt
they presented themselves as understanding the needs of the middle
class and working people
the idea that a rich donor my give money to a candidate's campaign and then
expect that canada both their way for example was shot he was considered
bribery
teddy roosevelt outlawed it in nineteen oh seven with its on the net
so that in nineteen fifty two when senator richard nixon was running for
vice president
with delight as narain etiquette
democrats point out that he'd taken fifteen bout exceeding eighteen thousand
dollars it's around a hundred and fifty thousand bucks in today's money
from some fat cat donors
americans were so shocked by the allegation
that nixon had to go on national television to address those charges
it was his second most famous speech of all time right behind his i'm not a
crook
speech
as he tried to reassure atmel americans that he would never
ever
ever cast a vote a particular way or in richard self
because it is
position as a senator member name ekie
brian actually probably know if you remember i remember i was
i was a year old one in twenty years at that
in that speech it's if it's a famous iconic speech
in which richard nixon talked about how
his wife had instead of a for a coyote she had a good republican cloth coat
and how they're repeat over his his campaign haha unlike his opponent
his campaign did not hire his wife even though she was a competent and skilled
stenographer
that was the only job though when they could get back in nineteen fifty two
but he still didn't hire his wife because that was that was the right
thing to do and in fact they
uh... the only gifted ever taken
it by the way his lines wrist is nixon had been so bought off and and
most about a mob
he was probably one of the most corrupt
politicians
certainly one of most crop tunnel politicians the twentieth century
they said that
the only gift a turquoise
this little black and white dog this puppy that was shipped all the way from
texas to union station in baltimore
where he went down and picked up him and his wife in their due to daughters and
six-year-old tricia just thought it was so cute
anne she changed her name to checkers
anne said and i'm going to keep that dot
it's not an influence my vote but i want to keep that dot and you know like
here humanized himself
and it helped him into a white house now or when the election
we like candidates who are every should people or at least
play the role of somebody who can understand everest people
harry truman after he left the white house
drove back to missouri in his own house in his own car lived in a modest house
until his death
jimmy carter
walked to his inauguration
the washington post wrote about this right afterwards
what but what undoubtedly will be most remembered about jimmy carter's
inauguration was that long walk from the capital to the executive mansion
it took in forty minutes to cover the mile-and-a-half
as you walked along with the any prancing jumping in dancing along at his
side he was shattering recent presidential practice
legend of the idea
their president must be remote her mood exiting shattered alleged
the president has been remote they removed from the people
after he left the white house purchase not to get rich
twice still a beloved president said he was building habitat for humanity houses
and working for world peace
even richard nixon
the most criminal of the twentieth century presidents knew how important
was
to seem like an average american when he was running for public office
then came the e_t_'s
pink in the reagan administration's hold worry is good gordon gecko yeah let's
act
any others lavish inaugural ball costing millions and millions of dollars paid
for by millionaires and billionaires
it was beamed by satellite to a hundred cities were other rich people could pony
up and have a or reagan novel ball in their own town
and america changed
with that reagan presidency to paraphrase john steinbeck after the
reagan era
the american working class people began to believe
but they're merely temporarily inconvenienced millionaires
and so today we have a quarter billionaire
maybe even a half billion there when you take a hundred million dollars that he's
given to his sons
miranti a quarter billionaire
who refuses to reveal the last decade have eve retrieved fuses alive realize
three years
his tax returns
or the full details is now twelve
all those vanity fair has found that he has been bank
him brokerage accounts
in a variety of tax havens
that includes an account in bermuda
the value of which is not disclosed as tax returns
it also includes thirty million dollars statue in the cayman islands where there
are no taxes and there's three million dollars tucked away a swiss bank account
irani also has an undisclosed amount of money sitting in bank as in luxembourg
entire lint as well
devender wired a_b_c_ news notes
that what little we do know about ron these efforts to hide his wealth both in
the american people if in the i_r_s_
pretty surprising
hero and i quote
the company in questions and katie high-yield asset investors ltd
is described by government financial documents as
aid bermuda corporation a wholly owned by w mit romney
yet as both vanity fair and so quoting from
from the a_p_
yet as vanity fair in the associated press note in new reports it has never
appeared
on the candidates financial disclosure forms
limited details on its existence
only recently came to light when ronnie releases twenty ten
tax return under public pressure
end of quote from the a_p_
then vanity fair vanity fair came out with this peace over the last couple of
days
a big expose and where mitt romney stasis money hint hint
overseas tax shelters
nicolas shacks and wrote this thing he he writes quote
even after examining that return
and he's talking about is
the one tax return the brownish shirt is his twenty ten one remade twenty three
million bucks unpaid thirteen point nine percent income tax
hit even after examining every term we have no idea what is in this company
but it could be valuable
meaning that it is possibly
is possible ronnie's wealth is even greater than previous estimates
all around his spokespeople insist that the company's paid all the taxes
required by law
investments in tax havens such as premier raise many questions because
they are in jurisdictions
but there is virtually no tax
and virtually no compliance
as one miami-based offshore lawyer put
so now the romney coke do karl rove patient by the way of you know romney
hundreds of millions of dollars to cope with is worth
billions tens of billions of dollars karl rove worth multiple millions of
dollars
their pitch
is that mit romney should
an alright all about
should keep their tax breaks
entertaining counts
because you know average american
when you hit riccio want them to
condemning consent this is their pitch
any interest in a sea of working-class americans by
if they do
that means that the massive knows is that working people have been under
since reagan came along
the greed is good will all be rich one day is still unbreakable
if they dont if miranti seldom account in caldwell for what he really is a
pirate capitalist
who cares more about fine tax loopholes increasing profits is what's good for
our nation
then it could be
our nation's first big step forward
toward cracking down on the oligarchy cyclotron even drag the united states in
the financial crisis
i think about this for a minute
in in in allot countries when really really rich people are running for
office they're using their own money of the using the connections that they have
getting rich to get all kinds of money
they're referred to as allah drugs
uh... earlier solid are granting us burden in russia
forget his name but he was not there
he was an ironic
why don't we refer to our aligarh assault weapons
what is it that is uniquely line about america
an american
that that causes us to say hi i just a rich guy
now which has all the countries who are you know like
growing economies in trying to run government they referred to is upon us
bracey initially says they will move in for all eternity
polytechnic about this