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Jun 9, 2017 · PBS June 9, 2017 5:00am-6:01am PDT. Dick Cavett narrates this look at how and why Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential election. Included: remarks from activist Tom Hayden; former Nixon adviser Kevin Phillips; former senator Edward Brooke; presidential biographer David Maraniss; Nixon biographer Elizabeth Drew; and author Rick Perlstein ...
Richard Nixon accepted his party’s presidential nomination at the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida. In his speech, the former vice...
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It was a scorcher of an early August week in Miami Beach when the Republican party gathered to elect their 1968 contender for the highest office in the land. While Nixon clearly had the lead going into the convention, his two main competitors were famous forces in their own right—actor-turned-governor of California Ronald Reagan and business tycoon...
At the end of the Republican convention, reporter Clive Barnes complained in The New York Timesthat the proceedings had been dull. “The convention was not a dramatic event but a charade, a charade of power, predictable and boring,” Barnes wrote, going on to note that, chiefly, “it lacked style.” Several weeks later, Democrats gathered in Chicago to...
Against the backdrop of the drama and brutality that occurred around the conventions and across the nation in 1968, Richard Nixon was elected president on November 5 in what was a very close race for the popular vote. When the ballots were counted, Nixon had squeaked out a win over then-Vice President Hubert Humphreyby only 500,000 votes (although ...
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Nixon appeals to the American people to achieve greatness. Nixon | Primary Source Answer to Subpoena for Recordings, 1974. Nixon turns over some of his tapes of confidential White House...
Nov 12, 2018 · Why did it happen? Nixon’s the One is anything but a nostalgic trip through the “flower power” decade. Rather, it’s a sobering, wry look at how the Sixties divided us—and how Nixon...
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Nov 11, 2018 · Sunday Morning. Remembering 1968: Richard M. Nixon's election victory. November 11, 2018 / 10:06 AM EST / CBS News. "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, ladies and...
