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The campaign was rough and although Nixon remained popular, during the campaign the Democratic headquarters of Watergate were broken into. However it was small at the time compared to the vandalism being perpetrated on Republican headquarters in Wisconsin <ref>http://www.newspaperarchive.com/LandingPage.aspx?type=glpnews&search=republican%20headquarters%20vandalized&img=\\na0024\4133037\17916816.html</ref> and other states.{{fact|January=2008}} | The campaign was rough and although Nixon remained popular, during the campaign the Democratic headquarters of Watergate were broken into. However it was small at the time compared to the vandalism being perpetrated on Republican headquarters in Wisconsin <ref>http://www.newspaperarchive.com/LandingPage.aspx?type=glpnews&search=republican%20headquarters%20vandalized&img=\\na0024\4133037\17916816.html</ref> and other states.{{fact|January=2008}} | ||
| − | The voters overwhelmingly chose Nixon | + | The voters overwhelmingly chose Nixon with the numerically highest popular vote margin in history (though [[Warren G. Harding]] won a slightly higher percentage margin in [[United States presidential election, 1920|1920]]). <ref> [[Encyclopedia of Presidents, Richard Nixon]], by Dee Lillegard, Children's Press, 1987, pp. 77-78. </ref> |
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President Richard Nixon was deeply involved in the strategy of Detente, the plan to end Cold War tensions which led to the "winless wars" of Korea and Vietnam when he came up for reelection in 1972. He was unanimously renominated by the Republican party for reelection as president. The Democratic nominee after a bitter battle was George McGovern, and initially his running mate was Thomas Eagleton, who accepted the nomination despite viciously tearing McGovern's policies apart in an anonymous interview earlier in the year. However, it soon emerged that Eagleton was mentally unstable, which resulted in him being removed from the ticket and replaced by Sargent Shriver. McGovern's already minuscule chances of winning the race vanished after this incident.
The campaign was rough and although Nixon remained popular, during the campaign the Democratic headquarters of Watergate were broken into. However it was small at the time compared to the vandalism being perpetrated on Republican headquarters in Wisconsin [1] and other states.[Citation Needed]
The voters overwhelmingly chose Nixon with the numerically highest popular vote margin in history (though Warren G. Harding won a slightly higher percentage margin in 1920). [2]
| candidates | popular vote | electoral vote |
|---|---|---|
| Richard M. Nixon | 47, 165, 234 | 521 |
| George S. McGovern | 29, 168, 110 | 17 |
| John G. Schmitz | 1, 106, 052 | 0 |
| Benjamin Spock | 79, 484 | 0 |
| Linda Jenness | 97, 256 | 0 |
| Louis Fisher | 53, 814 | 0 |
| Gus Hall | 25, 595 | 0 |
References
- ↑ http://www.newspaperarchive.com/LandingPage.aspx?type=glpnews&search=republican%20headquarters%20vandalized&img=\\na0024\4133037\17916816.html
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Presidents, Richard Nixon, by Dee Lillegard, Children's Press, 1987, pp. 77-78.
- ↑ A Pictoral History of the U.S. Presidents, by Clare Gibson, Gramercy Books, 2001, p. 126.