The 2020 US presidential election has begun again. In the past, we have had an experience that when Western countries are elected, including after the election, officials at all levels of the government must take the initiative to announce their property to the people. This is ca

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The 2020 US presidential election has begun again. In the past, we have had an experience that when Western countries elect, including after the election, officials at all levels of the government of must take the initiative to announce their property to the people. This is called the property disclosure system.

To this day, there are even relevant laws in the United States that clearly stipulate that people at or above the government must publish their property. According to relevant personnel, at least 25,000 people in the United States must publish their property.

Since you want to be an official, there is no personal privacy. Of course, there is a kind of information in the United States that you don’t need to publish. means how much tax you pay. This is actually personal privacy in the United States.

So in recent years, what the Democratic Party has been attacking Trump is, why don’t you dare to publish your tax form? Every time Trump says how much tax a person pays, that is my personal privacy. My property can be published, but my tax form cannot be published.

So when did American officials start to publish their property? started with a speech, and it came from a US president Nixon, who we Chinese are very familiar with.

Former US President Nixon is an old politician. Before he became president, he worked as Eisenhower's deputy for 8 years. We know that Eisenhower was a famous general in World War II. After resigning from his family and returning to the country, he came out to run for president in 1952.

Eisenhower was expected, and he fought very smoothly in the presidential election. At that time, he wanted to choose a deputy, and someone recommended Nixon to him.

Nixon was less than 40 years old at the age of thirty and was very capable of working as a senator and was very compatible with you, so Eisenhower agreed and chose Nixon, who was less than 40 years old at the time, as his deputy.

As a result, Nixon was jealous of many people, and many people said that Nixon was unknown. Why did he become the deputy of US Vice President Eisenhower at a young age?

Even a rumor circulated in American society at that time, and some people said do you know? Nixon colluded with many big capitalists and big funds. Those people donated money to him and established a secret fund for him, and that fund helped him with elections. And he had a lot of money in that fund, and he had to spend it home with . This kid was not authentic.

The rumors are getting more and more popular, and even reach Eisenhower's ears. At that time, an aide to Eisenhower suggested to you, "Look at how good your reputation is, you don't need to elect Nixon. He is now very low. Many people say that he is corrupt and abused the law. It doesn't matter if we can change the vice presidential candidate?

Eisenhower had already become interested in changing Nixon at that time. In this state, how did Nixon fight back? Nixon must be anxious to confess to the people that he is not a corrupt person, so he chose to use a speech.

Because TV media was just emerging at that time, to be honest, the communication channels of TV media were still very wide, so it was much faster to give speeches than to write articles to clarify.

So Nixon gave a 30-minute speech at that time. In these 30-minute speech, Nixon mainly talked about who donated money to him and what the money was for. He used this money entirely for elections, and he didn't spend a penny on himself.

More importantly, he also came up with a report from an accounting firm, which did state that the fund was used entirely for elections and Nixon himself did not take a penny.

By the end of the lecture, in order to confess his love to all Americans, Nixon said in his speech for the first time that I would announce all my property in front of all Americans, which no one has done before.

Nixon said I am a person from an ordinary family. How much annual salary do I have as a senator per year is stipulated by the state, and I only have this income.

I have a house, but this house was bought with a loan. Now the bank loan has not been paid yet, so the down payment was still made up by me and my father.

I have a car, but it is a very popular brand of cars, not a luxury car at all. Nixon even said that my wife had no precious jewelry, and her most expensive piece of clothing might be a cloth coat.

And to address the rumors that some people said that Nixon once used to enrich his personal pockets and used other people's donations to his own life, Nixon said yes, I did enrich his personal pockets, but it was not a lot of money, but a living thing-a dog.

Because once I said in a speech that my 6-year-old daughter especially wanted to raise a dog, a voter gave my daughter a dog.

I can tell you here that this dog I have ever taken, and today's Americans can afford to raise dogs like me. My daughter also likes this dog very much and named it Chex. Except for this dog, I didn't use any of the donations for myself.

Nixon's speech was indeed unprecedented. Previously, American politicians had never done anything to publicize their property. As a result, the speech was watched by more than 60 million people at that time, while the population of the United States was less than 200 million.

Nixon's speech was a huge success. Eisenhower didn't want to change him anymore. He and Eisenhower were later successfully elected as president and vice president.

It was from that time that people who were elected in the United States had to take the initiative to publish your property. If you don’t publish it, the people should reasonably doubt whether you are corrupt or not.

Original author: Li Chengwei