no nixon

At the 1968 Republican Convention, Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan tried to build an alliance that would've stopped Nixon and created either a Rockefeller/Reagan or Reagan/Rockefeller ticket. However, neither man's campaign could agree to supporting the other in the top spot. Ultimately...

During the 1952 campaign, Nixon was accused of benefitting from a secret slush fund that allowed him to live beyond his means. Many in the press called on him to resign from the ticket, and about half of Eisenhower's aides agreed. Ultimately Eisenhower decided against this as he felt it would...

After he lost to Governor Pat Brown in 1962, Nixon gave a paranoid, spiteful, self-pitying speech to the press proclaiming they wouldn't have Nixon to "kick around anymore" and he retired from politics. That is, until JFK's assassination got the political wheels turning once again in Nixon's...

If longtime Republican NY Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the leader of the GOP's moderates, had avoided his 1963 marital scandal he no doubt would have been the party's standard bearer in 1964 instead of Goldwater. He would have lost that year, but like Dewey in 1948 he would stand a good chance...

Let's say that when Nixon gave his "last press conference" in 1962 and vowed to never run for office again, he meant it. Assuming butterflies are kept to a minimum over the following six years, who do you think is most likely to become the Republican nominee for president in 1968? Would that...