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 ...

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

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

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.

Donald Trump’s call for national unity after months of vowing vengeance recalls GOP presidential campaign rebranding in earlier turbulent eras. 2024’s “New Trump” is like 1968’s “New ...

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

In 1968 Richard Nixon won the presidential election to become the President of the United States. LEFT IMAGE 1960: ...

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 ...

At the Republican National Convention in 1968, Richard Nixon and the world’s biggest basketball star launched a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it ...

The president would lift price controls after the 1972 election to soften the pressure on the economy, but the damage was already done. The Nixon shock is credited as one of the main causes of the ...