 As the senator discussed their finances , the telecast again showed Pat Nixon , fixedly watching her husband . Pat Nixon later stated that her rapt gaze was because she did not know exactly what he would say , and wanted to hear . Nixon detailed their assets and liabilities : the mortgaged home in Washington ; the similarly mortgaged home in California , then occupied by his parents . The loans from his parents and from Riggs Bank . The borrowed @-@ against life insurance policy on the senator ; no insurance on his wife or children . The two @-@ year @-@ old Oldsmobile and the family furniture , and that he and his wife owned no stocks or bonds . 
