1968: Richard Nixon won the presidency

 

On this day in 1968, Richard Nixon got 43.4% and VP Humphrey was right behind with 42.73% of the 74 million votes cast.  Governor Wallace got 13.5% and carried 5 Southern states.     
In the end, Nixon got the Electoral Votes to become the 37th president.    

Nixon wrote a lot about his 3 presidential elections:  defeat in 1960, victory in 1968 and the landslide of 1972.   It is one of the best presidential memoirs that I've read.

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