Nixon won in 1968 by 0.7 percentage points — people are mixing up 1972 (a genuine landslide) with 1968 (a razor-thin election) to make it seem like candidate-swapping is obviously doomed.

Description. In the 1968 presidential election, Republican former Vice President Richard Nixon defeated Democratic Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Democratic former Alabama Governor George ...

Richard Nixon, who was elected the 37th President of the United States on November 5, 1968, made deeply disparaging remarks about Irish Americans in Watergate-era tapes. Nixon stated that Irish ...

In 1968, he made a bid for the High Office once again. With a chaotic showing from the Democrats Nixon won the general election. He then became the 37th President of the United States.

On Jan. 15, 1968, Richard Nixon told his family that he was running for president. The Nixon family made “the awful decision” to stand by their patriarch once more. Nixon had been at this apex ...

In 1968, Wilt Chamberlain was the biggest basketball star in the world and Richard Nixon was the Republican candidate for ...

The parallels between the 1968 presidential race between Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey and today’s Trump-Harris battle are remarkably similar.

Since 1836, only one sitting vice president, George H.W. Bush in 1988, has been elected to the White House.Among those who ...