Select the correct text in the passage.
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 was when i met her. and i can tell you folks that she's worked many hours at night and many hours on saturdays and sundays in my office, and she's done a fine job, and i am proud to say tonight that in the six years i've been in the house and the senate of the united states, pat nixon has never been on the government pay roll.

what are other ways that these finances can be taken care of? some who are lawyers, and i happen to be a lawyer, continue to practice law, but i haven't been able to do that. i'm so far away from california that i've been so busy with my senatorial work that i have not engaged in any legal practice. and, also, as far as law practice is concerned, it seemed to me that the relationship between an attorney and the client was so personal that you couldn't possibly represent a man as an attorney and then have an unbiased view when he presented his case to you in the event that he had one before government.

and so i felt that the best way to handle these necessary political expenses of getting my message to the american people and the speeches i made -- the speeches that i had printed for the most part concerned this one message of exposing this administration, the communism in it, the corruption in it -- the only way that i could do that was to accept the aid which people in my home state of california, who contributed to my campaign and who continued to make these contributions after i was elected, were glad to make.

The correct answer is: “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.”

Indeed, a red-herring is a statement that deflects attention from an issue to another issue of unrelated importance. In this case, no-one had accused Nixon of putting his wife in the payroll and he knew it. However, he decides to use this point to divert attention from him and focus it on his political opponent, who allegedly did put his wife on the payroll.

the answer should be d) he was one of those young thousands who greeted the war with a certain amount of relief, welcoming the liberation from webs of tangled emotion" since it is the best option because it shows his desire to free himself. 

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1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)