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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}}  
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The voters overwhelmingly chose Nixon in what remains the widest popular margin ever.  <ref> [[Encyclopedia of Presidents, Richard Nixon]], by Dee Lillegard, Children's Press, 1987, pp. 77-78.  </ref>     
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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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