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3 days ago · The 1972 United States presidential election was the 47th quadrennial presidential election held on Tuesday, November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican president Richard Nixon defeated Democratic U.S. senator George McGovern in a landslide victory. With 60.7% of the popular vote, Richard Nixon won the largest share of the popular vote for the ...
- California
- Republican
- Richard Nixon
- Spiro Agnew
2 days ago · In earning the nomination, Nixon became the first sitting vice president to be nominated for president since John C. Breckinridge exactly a century prior. Nixon then chose former Massachusetts Senator and United Nations Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. , as his vice presidential running mate.
- Massachusetts
- Democratic
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon B. Johnson
2 days ago · A ballot of the Senate is held to choose the vice president. In this ballot, each senator has one vote. The House has chosen the victor of the presidential race only twice, in 1800 and 1824; the Senate has chosen the victor of the vice-presidential race only once, in 1836 .
4 days ago · The charismatic young New Englander’s near victory and his televised speech of concession (Estes Kefauver won the vice presidential nomination) brought him into some 40 million American homes. Overnight he had become one of the best-known political figures in the country. Already his campaign for the 1960 nomination had begun.
4 days ago · Lyndon B. Johnson. In full: Lyndon Baines Johnson. Also called: LBJ. Born: August 27, 1908, Gillespie county, Texas, U.S. Died: January 22, 1973, San Antonio, Texas (aged 64) Title / Office: presidency of the United States of America (1963-1969), United States. vice president of the United States of America (1961-1963), United States.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Lyndon B. Johnson, frequently called LBJ, was an American politician and moderate Democrat who was president of the United States from 1963 to 1969...
- Lyndon B. Johnson was elected vice president of the United States alongside President John F. Kennedy in 1960 and acceded to the presidency upon Ke...
- As president, Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, the most comprehensive civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, into law; he als...
- By 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson knew he was unlikely to win another presidential election; his increase of American involvement in the Vietnam War, as w...
2 days ago · On the late Friday afternoon of July 15, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts appeared before a crowd of eighty thousand people in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to deliver his formal acceptance of the Democratic party’s nomination for President of the United States.
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1 day ago · United States - Presidents, Elections, History: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and other presidents of the United States, in list form.
