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Nixon's victory in the 1968 US Presidential election is known as one of the great comebacks in American political history: after narrowly losing to JFK in 1960 and being humiliated by Pat Brown in 1962, Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey and became the 37th US President. But Nixon won only narrowly, and Humphrey overcame a 17 point polling deficit to almost beat his Republican opponent on election day. Any number of alternative decisions on Humphrey's part, such as revealing Nixon's interference in the Vietnam Peace Talks (which he fatefully decided not to do), could've swung the election to the Democrats.

What would Nixon's legacy be if he'd lost in both 1960 and 1968?
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