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This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1960 election. After winning the Republican presidential nomination at the 1960 Republican National Convention, incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon needed to choose a running mate.
This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1968 election.After winning the Republican presidential nomination at the 1968 Republican National Convention, former Vice President Richard Nixon convened a series of meetings with close advisers and party leaders such as Strom Thurmond in order to choose his ...
The length of a full four-year term of office for a vice president of the United States usually amounts to 1,461 days (three common years of 365 days plus one leap year of 366 days). The listed number of days is calculated as the difference between dates , which counts the number of calendar days except the first day ( day zero ).
Vice President-elect Dan Quayle (second from right) and his wife Marilyn with Vice President and President-elect George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara, as well as outgoing president Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy during a press conference held in the White House Rose Garden during the 1988–89 presidential transition of George H. W. Bush
Immediately after the 1968 election, Agnew was still uncertain what Nixon would expect of him as vice president. [110] He met with Nixon several days after the election in Key Biscayne, Florida. Nixon, vice president himself for eight years under Eisenhower, wanted to spare Agnew the boredom and lack of a role he had sometimes experienced in ...
The front-runner for the Republican nomination was former Vice President Richard Nixon, who formally began campaigning in January 1968. [10] Nixon had worked behind the scenes and was instrumental in Republican gains in Congress and governorships in the 1966 midterm elections.
Nixon walking out to Marine One in the rain, 1 November 1970. November 1 – Vice President Agnew condemns Democrats for lying as the presidential election approaches. [95] November 4 – President Nixon states his pleasure with the new Republican majority in the Senate while speaking to reporters. [96]
January 6 – The House and Senate jointly officiate the re-election of President Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew to a second term during a ceremony. [18] January 8 – United States Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird says 5,000 men will be drafted between March 1 and July 1 during an appearance before Congress. [19]