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January 1 – President Nixon spends New Year's Day at Camp David with his family and aides. [1]January 2 – The White House releases the text of a message sent to Congress by President Nixon the previous day alongside his vetoing of a bill raising the pay for roughly 850,000 federal workers.
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
The People's Party ran Dr. Benjamin Spock for president and Julius Hobson for vice president in the 1972 U.S. presidential election.The party platform included free medical care, legalized abortion, legalized marijuana, a guaranteed minimum wage, the withdrawal of American troops from all foreign countries, [1] a guaranteed maximum wage, and promoting toleration of homosexuality.
The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 was enacted to increase disclosure of contributions for federal campaigns. ... The presidential election process is ...
Events from the year 1971 in the United States. Incumbents. Federal government. President: Richard Nixon (R-California) Vice President: Spiro Agnew (R-Maryland)
Presidential elections: Elections for the U.S. President are held every four years, coinciding with those for all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, and 33 or 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate. Midterm elections: They occur two years after each presidential election. Elections are held for all 435 seats in the House of Representatives ...
1971 elections in the United States by state (15 C) L. 1971 United States local elections (1 C) S. 1971 state constitutional officer elections in the United States (2 C)
This marked the most recent time that the Republican nominee carried Minnesota in a presidential election; it also made Nixon the only two-term vice president to be elected president twice. The 1972 election was the first since the ratification of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, further expanding the electorate.