"My fellow Americans", this black & white cocker spaniel gave its name to a 1952 speech
It was a little 
cocker spaniel dog, in a crate that he had sent all the way from Texas, black and 
... to that fund, give the names of the people who put this money into their pockets
, at the... [DOC] [TLE] 'Checkers' Speech | Video | C-SPAN.org [PAR] September 23, 1952.