Johnson Democratic Elected President Richard Nixon Republican The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968....
Winning a close election on November 5, 1968, Nixon and Agnew were inaugurated as the 37th president of the United States and 39th vice president of the United States, respectively, on...
Fifty years later, the 1968 general election, in which Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace, introduced themes and divisions that still characterize American politics in the Do...
The United States presidential election of 1968 was held on November 5 after a tumultuous campaign. Republican Richard M. Nixon defeated Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George...
Richard Nixon’s telephone calls came regularly during the 1968 campaign. And H.R. Haldeman took meticulous notes, jotting down the instructions he received from the candidate. Sometimes Nixon needed to blow off steam: demanding that a reporter from The Washington Post or The New York Times be banned from his campaign airplane for writing an offending story. (“Times and Post off,” Haldeman recorded. “Times forever.”) One such call came at midnight, from Nixon’s co-op apartment on Fift...
Results of the presidential election of 1968, won by Richard M. Nixon with 301 electoral votes
There are clear similarities between 1968 and 2024, from presidential elections and anti-war protests to new Planet of the Apes movies. But historians tell NPR there are some key differences too.
The ELECTION OF 1968 The presidential election of 1968 was one of the most chaotic in... Nixon staved off potential strong opponents such as Michigan Governor George Romney, and swept the...
presidential election in New York ← 1964 November 5, 1968 1972 → Turnout 59.7% [1] 4.7 pp Nominee Hubert Humphrey Richard Nixon George Wallace Party Democratic Republican Courage [b]...
CLARY/Getty Images WASHINGTON -- It was the spring of a presidential election year, but there... In the end, Nixon in 1968 won in part by coopting the Wallace vote. In the name of a...