History Dept. How Kennedy Narrowly Defeated Nixon — and Why the Alternative History Would Have Been Devastating The 1960 election was closer than you think.

Fifty years later, the 1968 general election, in which Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace, introduced themes and divisions that still characterize American politics in the ...

The 1960 presidential election changed everything. ... Presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon shake hands after their televised debate in Washington, DC, on October 7, 1960.

The 1960 election was extraordinarily close. Nixon, the sitting vice president, lost the popular vote to Kennedy, the liberal Massachusetts senator, by 113,000 votes of 68 million cast—a hair ...

Nixon believed that Kennedy’s allies had stolen the election through systematic fraud. He had far more evidence in his court than Donald Trump, and his margin of loss was much smaller than Trump ...

Where Kennedy was fluent and lucid, Nixon’s prepared remarks used odd, tangled syntax that tripped him up as he spoke. “There is no question but that this nation cannot stand still,” he said.

Nixon told “CBS Sunday Morning” that the 2016 presidential election served as a catalyst for her to challenge New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) this year. “I think Donald Trump’s election was… ...

The 1960 presidential election changed everything. It was the first to feature televised debates between the two major-party candidates. It was the first where the candidates were born in the 20th ...

Donald Trump is fanning fears that if he loses the presidential election in November, he’ll try to discredit the vote totals as fraudulent and won’t concede the race. Doing so would amount to ...

The 1960 presidential election changed everything. ... Presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon shake hands after their televised debate in Washington, DC, on October 7, 1960.