 Nixon , continuing to ask skeptical rhetorical questions , indicated that some might feel that even with the opinions , he might have found some way to personally benefit . In response to his own question , the senator detailed his background and financial situation , beginning with his birth in Yorba Linda , and the family grocery store in which the Nixon boys helped out . He alluded to his work in college and law school , his service record , and stated that at the end of the war , he and Pat Nixon had $ 10 @,@ 000 in savings , all of it patriotically in government bonds . The candidate gave the dollar amounts of small inheritances that the Nixons had received from relatives , before turning to their life in Washington : 
