| | The next year Eisenhower appointed Lodge as Ambassador to the United Nations, a [[Cabinet]]-level post that he retained until the 1960 presidential election.<ref name=nytimes/> After the defeat in 1960, Kennedy appointed his former rival Lodge to be the Ambassador to South Vietnam, in which capacity Lodge supported the 1963 South Vietnamese coup that led to the murder of President [[Ngo Dinh Diem]] and Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu.<ref name=nytimes/><ref>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/henry-cabot-lodge Lodge, Henry Cabot]. ''encyclopedia.com''. Retrieved May 28, 2021.</ref> While in Vietnam, he won the [[New Hampshire]] presidential [[primary]] of 1964 in a write-in contest without campaigning. Richard Nixon also received write-in-vote in the 1964 primary. The eventual nominee, [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]], was handily defeated by Lyndon Johnson. He held other positions under presidents of both parties and was part of the U.S. delegation to the prolonged Paris Peace Accords, which first convened in of 1968. That same year, Richard Nixon was again the Republican presidential nominee; he tapped [[Spiro T. Agnew]], the governor of [[Maryland]] for the second slot, rather than Lodge, and went on to defeat Democrat [[Hubert Humphrey]] of [[Minnesota]]. | | The next year Eisenhower appointed Lodge as Ambassador to the United Nations, a [[Cabinet]]-level post that he retained until the 1960 presidential election.<ref name=nytimes/> After the defeat in 1960, Kennedy appointed his former rival Lodge to be the Ambassador to South Vietnam, in which capacity Lodge supported the 1963 South Vietnamese coup that led to the murder of President [[Ngo Dinh Diem]] and Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu.<ref name=nytimes/><ref>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/henry-cabot-lodge Lodge, Henry Cabot]. ''encyclopedia.com''. Retrieved May 28, 2021.</ref> While in Vietnam, he won the [[New Hampshire]] presidential [[primary]] of 1964 in a write-in contest without campaigning. Richard Nixon also received write-in-vote in the 1964 primary. The eventual nominee, [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]], was handily defeated by Lyndon Johnson. He held other positions under presidents of both parties and was part of the U.S. delegation to the prolonged Paris Peace Accords, which first convened in of 1968. That same year, Richard Nixon was again the Republican presidential nominee; he tapped [[Spiro T. Agnew]], the governor of [[Maryland]] for the second slot, rather than Lodge, and went on to defeat Democrat [[Hubert Humphrey]] of [[Minnesota]]. |
| | + | Lodge voted with the conservative side only 62% of the time throughout his political career.<ref>FascinatingPolitics (April 15, 2020). [https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2020/04/15/mc-index-scores-of-people-i-have-profiled/ MC-Index Scores of People I Have Profiled]. ''Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History''. Retrieved August 12, 2021.</ref> |