Richard Nixon’s 1972 win over George McGovern is a more accurate representation of a landslide: 520 electoral college votes to 17 and every state on the map red apart from Maine. But that didn ...

(World, Analysis, January 18th), Keith Duggan, referring to the 1972 presidential election, wrote that President Nixon turned “every state on the map red ... nominee George McGovern’s 38. ...

The U.S. shrugged when Thomas Jefferson blocked funding for a program he hated. Richard Nixon did the same with programs he ...

The president was not Donald J. Trump. He was Richard M. Nixon. The scandal he thought he had outrun, Watergate, would ultimately force his resignation. And his brazen anti-press moves ...

She told our reporter Bill Fortune her goal was to persuade voters in seven key swing states to vote McGovern. 450--(we) must expose what’s being done escalation of the war under Nixon ...

where I witnessed the whole country turn for Richard Nixon, all except the Bay State. Sen. George McGovern couldn’t even carry South Dakota, his home state. But if I’ve learned anything over ...

At the time of the break-in there was no chance that McGovern could prevail at the polls in November. Nothing about the burglary caused Nixon to receive more votes than he eventually did ...

In my biography, The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon, Pat Nixon described the role of first lady as “the hardest unpaid job in the world.” As first lady scholar Diana Carlin notes, “The role is not ...

McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose, as a matter of policy and a perfect ...

Doug reckons this makes Trump more like Richard Nixon (similarly irascible with questionable ethics, though that’s my observation rather than Doug’s). Nixon saw trade in competitive terms and ...

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