This initiative was not the handiwork of left-wing liberals but of the administration of Richard Nixon ... of former Texas Democratic governor John Connally to fill the critical slot of Treasury ...

Richard M. Nixon lost the election of 1960 to John F. Kennedy by a small margin of 112,000 popular votes. When Nixon ran again in 1968, he cast himself as representing a “Great Silent Majority,” a ...

1960: Nixon, as the Republican nominee for president, is defeated by John Kennedy on November 8 1968: Richard Nixon elected President of the United States on November 5 1972: Nixon reelected ...