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The recount was finished on December 9, and showed that in six towns around Chicago, mistakes of ten votes or more in favor of Kennedy occurred in 3.1% of the precincts, those in favor of Nixon occurred in 2.6%, and those in favor of third-parties occurred in 4.8%. 11% of the precincts in Chicago had errors of ten votes or more in Kennedy's ...
[a] [2] Nixon thus became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying this county since Benjamin Harrison in 1888. As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last time in which Cook County and St. Clair County voted Republican, and the last until 2016 when Alexander County supported a Republican nominee. [3]
Between Nixon's accession to office and his resignation in August 1974, unemployment rates had risen from 3.5% to 5.6%, and the rate of inflation had grown from 4.7% to 8.7%. [64] Observers coined a new term for the undesirable combination of unemployment and inflation: "stagflation", a phenomenon that would worsen after Nixon left office. [66]
The presidency of Richard Nixon began on January 20, 1969, when Richard Nixon was inaugurated as the 37th president of the United States, and ended on August 9, 1974, when, in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office, he resigned the presidency (the first U.S. president ever to do so).
Republican candidate Richard Nixon won the state of Illinois by a narrow margin of 2.93%. [14] The winning of Illinois was the moment that sealed a close and turbulent election for Nixon, [15] [16] who in the last counting did much better in massively populated Cook County than Goldwater or Nixon himself in 1960. [15]
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
On August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon (a Republican) was forced to resign amid the Watergate scandal. Vice President Gerald Ford ascended to the presidency, leaving the office of vice president vacant.
Nixon carried 92 of the state's 101 counties. Kennedy's victory in Illinois came from Chicago, which had favorable demographics for Kennedy, with its large populations of Catholic and African-American voters. [103] His victory margin in the city was 318,736, and 456,312 in Cook County.