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This also made Nixon the first 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. Both Nixon and his vice president Spiro Agnew would resign from office within two years of the election ...
Kentucky was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R–California), with 63.77 percent of the popular vote, against George McGovern (D–South Dakota), with 34.77%. Nixon won 112 out of 120 counties in the Commonwealth. This was the first time a Republican ever carried the Jackson Purchase counties. Nixon was the first Republican to carry ...
Charles Wendell Colson (October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012), generally referred to as Chuck Colson, was an American attorney and political advisor who served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970. Once known as President Nixon 's "hatchet man", Colson gained notoriety at the height of the Watergate scandal, for being ...
Kentucky state Sen. Damon Thayer, R- Georgetown, looks over a document in the Senate chambers at the Kentucky state Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., on Monday, April 15, 2024. In Frankfort
The cover up of the affair by President Richard Nixon (R) and his staff resulted in 69 government officials being charged and 48 pleading guilty, including seven for actual burglary. Eventually, Nixon resigned his position. John N. Mitchell (R) former United States Attorney General, convicted of perjury.
From January 24 to June 20, 1972, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1972 United States presidential election. Senator George McGovern of South Dakota was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections, caucuses, and state party conventions, culminating in the 1972 Democratic National Convention held from July 10 to July 13, 1972, in Miami ...
No Politics and No Dirty Jokes: Jay Leno Wants to Have Good, Clean Fun With ‘You Bet Your Life’ Revival. Cynthia Littleton. September 12, 2021 at 12:03 PM.
v. t. e. The 1960 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose 10 [2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president . Kentucky was won by incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon ...