It was clear that Nixon lost. Even Lodge agreed. “That son-of-a-b--- just lost us the election!” he yelled at the television. John F. Kennedy (left) and Richard Nixon (right) participating in ...

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 ...

This initiative was not the handiwork of left-wing liberals but of the administration of Richard ... But Nixon certainly believed that mismanagement of the economy had also cost him the election.