Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech was a response to accusations that he misused campaign funds for non-political expenses. Which paragraph in this excerpt from the speech uses the red herring fallacy?

But I have never done that for this reason: I have found that there are so many deserving stenographers and secretaries in Washington that needed the work that I just didn't feel it was right to put my wife on the pay roll.

My wife's sitting over here. She's a wonderful stenographer. She used to teach stenography and she used to teach shorthand in high school. That

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Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech was a response to accusations that he misused campaign funds for non-political expenses. Which paragraph in this excerpt from the speech uses the red herring fallacy?




But I have never done that for this reason: I have found that there are so many deserving stenographers and secretaries in Washington that needed the work that I just didn't feel it was right to put my wife on the pay roll.

My wife's sitting over here. She's a wonderful stenographer. She used to teach stenography and she used to teach shorthand in high school. That