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In 1972 the GOP was at a dominant position winning the biggest landslide election in American History up to that point with no end in sight. With a massive electoral landslide how does Nixon’s 2nd term play out? It certainly started with a bang with the Vietnam War finally coming to an end with a peace treaty. With a massive mandate for a 2nd term, do we know what Nixon’s platform would have been? Would he have had the ego to take on the 3rd rail of politics and taken a crack at S.S and Medicare? And does a Nixon win who was considered relatively moderate forestall the rise of Reaganism or was that always an inevitability?
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