Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Rather than relying on the Republican National Committee, Nixon's re-election campaign was primarily waged through the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP), whose top leadership was composed of former White House personnel. [222] Liddy and Hunt became involved with the CRP, conducting espionage on Democrats. [223]
Four presidents died in office of natural causes (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy), and one resigned (Richard Nixon, facing impeachment and removal from office). [12]
*Nixon was a write-in candidate in some states' presidential primaries and received 316 votes. 1956 Republican National Convention (Vice Presidential tally) : [ 4 ] Richard Nixon (inc.) - 1,323 (100.00%)
Incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon won re-election, defeating Democratic Senator George McGovern from South Dakota. [3] Nixon won a landslide victory, taking just under 61% of the popular vote and winning every state but Massachusetts and Washington, D. C. Libertarian John Hospers won the electoral vote of one faithless elector .
Allegations against him stemmed from the attempted cover-up of Nixon campaign "dirty tricks" operations, including the 1972 break-in at Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building in ...
This Democratic National Convention is in Chicago.. I’ll save you looking it up: Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon campaigned to restore “law and order,” and won 32 states.. He easily ...
This was the last time until 1988 that the state of Washington voted Democratic and until 1992 that Connecticut, Maine, and Michigan voted Democratic in the general election. Nixon was also the last Republican candidate to win a presidential election without carrying Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.