The 2024 presidential election is shaping up to be one of the most consequential in history. Interestingly, it shares many similarities with another important election: 1968. President Joe Biden ...

The presidential election of 1968 looks a lot like today’s — but it was very different So why is Donald Trump trying so hard to sound like Richard Nixon?

Previous Elections. Chapman University history professor Luke Nichter discussed the impact of the elections of 1964 and 1966 to open his lecture on Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign and the issues ...

The first eight months of 1968 were the closest that America’s come to a nervous breakdown in modern times. Two months after the late-January Tet Offensive in Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson took to the ...

The first page of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 1968 election preview for NBC News. Chuck Todd. Moynihan begins by noting that after the big GOP gains in the 1966 midterms, ...

The 1968 Election and the Culture Wars. Lawrence O'Donnell talked about his book Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics.

There may have been worse years in world history—1939 comes to mind—but for sheer gloom and despair with few beams of sunshine, 1968 will do very well. Short of the fact that war didn’t ...

No, the 2024 Election Won’t Be Anything Like 1968 The election will be a challenge for Joe Biden. But looking to the past won’t help him—or us—understand what lies ahead.

Statewide in the 1968 election, Nixon got 809,997 votes to Humphrey's 748,804 votes (47.9 percent to 44.3 percent). Third-party candidate George Wallace collected 127,835, ...

Even before the 1968 election, there was fear that Wallace would win some electoral votes and possibly cause a tie between Nixon and Humphrey. Under the Constitution, ...

In this year’s presidential election, terms such as “law and order” and “the silent majority” have been heard fairly often from Donald Trump and some of his supporters. Those phrases ...