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Nixon ran with Vice President, and former Maryland Governor, Spiro Agnew for vice president, and McGovern ran with United States Ambassador Sargent Shriver for vice president. In the midst of a nationwide Republican landslide, Nixon took 58.54% of the vote in New York State to McGovern's 41.21%, a margin of 17.34%.
Oklahoma voted in a landslide for incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon over his Democratic challenger George McGovern. Nixon's winning margin of 49.70 percentage points made Oklahoma his third-strongest state, behind Mississippi and Georgia , [ 1 ] and 26.55 percentage points more Republican than the nation at-large.
The 1972 United States elections were held on November 7, and elected the members of the 93rd United States Congress. The election took place during the later stages of the Vietnam War . The Republican Party won a landslide victory in the presidential election, and picked up seats in the House, but the Democratic Party easily retained control ...
McGovern, a staunch liberal Democrat best known for his strong principled opposition to the Vietnam War, was painted by the Nixon campaign as an extremist too far to the left of the American mainstream at the time, and this paid off in delivering Nixon a nationwide re-election landslide. Prior to 1972, Massachusetts had been a Democratic ...
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 1 J. W. Coop: Columbia Pictures / Robertson and Associates: Cliff Robertson (director/screenplay ...
A viral exchange on X blames President Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision to withdraw from the race for Nixon’s election. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800 ...
The movie starts on April 11, 1972. Nixon's advisers at the White House ask Mark Felt how to ask J. Edgar Hoover to step aside as the FBI director. Some days later, Hoover dies. Pat Gray becomes the acting FBI director. In June 1972, several ex-CIA and FBI agents burglarize Watergate hotel to bug the DNC headquarters.
1972 Republican primaries 1972 U.S. presidential election: Candidate: Richard Nixon 37th President of the United States (1969–1974) Spiro Agnew 39th Vice President of the United States (1969–1973) Affiliation: Republican Party: Status: Announced: January 7, 1972 Official nominee: August 23, 1972 Won election: November 7, 1972 Inaugurated ...