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

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.

Richard Nixon meeting with Duke officials on the campaign trail at a Greensboro event in 1960. Regardless, Nixon would easily win the Republican nomination for the 1960 presidential election with ...

In the 1960 presidential election, Democratic Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. This was the first election in which all 50 ...

It was the lead-up to the 1972 presidential election. An era of “stagflation” was ahead. And President Richard Nixon had a plan.

Vice President Richard Nixon and Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy faced off in the first televised presidential debate in U.S. history on this day in history, Sept. 26, 1960.

Richard Nixon resigned 50 years ago. The political world has never been the ... having lost a very close election in 1960 to John F. Kennedy and won a very close election in 1968 over Hubert ...