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4 days ago · The term presidency of the United States of America refers to the chief executive office of the United States. In contrast to many countries with parliamentary forms of government, where the office is mainly ceremonial, in the U.S. the president is vested with great authority and is arguably the most powerful elected official in the world.
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2 days ago · The incumbent in 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 1969. The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, defeated both the Democratic nominee, incumbent vice president ...
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1 day ago · Harry S. Truman [b] (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
3 days ago · Nixon received his party’s presidential nomination and was opposed in the 1960 general election by Democrat John F. Kennedy. The campaign was memorable for an unprecedented series of four televised debates between the two candidates.
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- Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States. He was a Republican, and he held the presidency from 1969 to 1974. Nixon became the firs...
- As U.S. president, Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, proposed an affirmative action program in federal employment, expande...
- During the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon and his administration were discovered to have been involved in a burglary attempt at the Democratic Na...
- Richard Nixon, arguably, tried to prolong the Vietnam War during the 1968 presidential campaign in an effort to win the presidency. Once he became...
- Gerald Ford succeeded Richard Nixon as U.S. president after Nixon resigned. He was Nixon’s second vice president. President Ford’s earliest acts in...
4 days ago · Jimmy Carter. Date: November 2, 1976. Participants: Jimmy Carter. Bob Dole. Gerald Ford. Eugene McCarthy. Walter Mondale. Gus Hall. United States presidential election of 1976, American presidential election held on November 2, 1976, in which Democrat Jimmy Carter defeated Republican Pres. Gerald R. Ford. At a glance: the election of 1976.
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Hiram Leong Fong: 40th Vice President of the United States of America (1965-present), Senator from Hawaii (1959-present), Speaker of the Hawaii House of Representatives (1946-1954).
1 day ago · The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely contested election, Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy defeated the incumbent Republican Vice President Richard Nixon.
