Talk:Checkers

For discussion on the game of checkers, seem Talk:Draughts.

Checkers was the name of a cocker spaniel that saved Richard Nixon's political career in 1952. Nixon, then a Vice President candidate for Eisenhower, was accused of setting up a secret slush fund. Nixon appeared on television, tearfully saying that he only gift he'd received as a politician was Checkers, that his children loved the dog, and that he and he wasn't going to give it back -- even if it was a crime. The audience loved it, and Nixon became VP and later President.

"Checkers" is the name of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom's secondary country residence.

That one's 'Chequers'.