{"id":109384,"date":"2017-12-09T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:51:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:51:58","slug":"nixon-won-presidential-election-1968-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/nixon-won-presidential-election-1968-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Nixon won presidential election, 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/SvHj-S04hQI\/AAAAAAAABjo\/oUN7UCtp0HI\/s1600-h\/nixon.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"180\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400348087538976002\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/nixon.png\" class=\"wp-image-109385\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 180px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;\" \/><\/a>On  5th November 1968, Richard Millhous Nixon won the U.S. presidential  election following a turbulent campaign that saw the assassinations of  Dr. Martin Luther King and <a href=\"http:\/\/modernhistorian.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/on-this-day-in-history-bobby-kennedy.html\">Robert Kennedy<\/a>,  as well violent protests on the issues of race and the Vietnam war.  Nixon, the Republican candidate, received 301 votes from the Electoral  College and 43.4% of the popular vote; the Democratic candidate, Hubert  Humphrey, received 191 Electoral College votes and 42.7% of the popular  vote;  an independent candidate George Wallace (the Governor of Alabama  and former Democratic candidate who ran on a pro-racial-segregation  ticket) received 46 electoral votes and 13.5% of the popular vote. Thus,  Nixon was duly elected to be the 37th President of the United States,  taking office on 20th January 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon&#8217;s period in office is  seen as a particularly divisive period in American history as opposition  to the Vietnam war grew, especially after the bombing of Cambodia.  Nevertheless, many of Nixon&#8217;s policies were far from conservative: he  continued the process of racial integration in schools; he expanded the  role of the federal government by creating many new agencies; on the  international stage, Nixon opened diplomatic links with China and  achieved a degree of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">d\u00e9tente<\/span>  with the Soviet Union. In 1972 he won a second term in office following a  landslide victory but resigned two years later following the Watergate  scandal.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 5th November 1968, Richard Millhous Nixon won the U.S. presidential election following a turbulent campaign that saw the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, as well violent protests on the issues of race and the Vietnam war. Nixon, the Republican candidate, received 301 votes from the Electoral College and 43.4% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}