![]() ![]() I want to go and have a look.” After locking him in a bathroom, Oswald’s wife convinced him to turn over his gun. In a further coincidence, the wife of Lee Harvey Oswald testified to the Warren Commission that in April 1963 the alleged assassin read a local newspaper report, tucked a pistol in his belt, and told her, “Nixon is coming. After Nixon landed in New York, he learned that Kennedy had been gunned down in that motorcade. Kennedy, the man who defeated him for the presidency three years prior, on the streets of the city’s downtown. Nixon saw the preparations for the motorcade that hours later would carry John F. In the early morning of November 22, 1963, Richard Nixon rode through Dallas to the airport to fly home after attending a Pepsi-Cola board meeting. Lee Harvey Oswald may have plotted to assassinate Nixon. At age 90, he still teaches at the University of Minnesota.1. Walter Mondale served as Vice President in the Carter administration and then ran unsuccessfully for president in 1984. Pat Buchanan ran unsuccessfully for president in 1992, 19. Two years later, the Watergate scandal led to his resignation.ĭwight Chapin served eight months in prison in connection with Watergate. President Richard Nixon was reelected in 1972. You and Muriel gonna have a great life.' Humphrey chokes out, 'If there's anything that I can ever do, I wanna be doing it for you.' It was such a poignant moment." Nixon was patting him on the back saying, 'Hubert, you know, everything's gonna be okay. "The men had their arms around one another," Chapin said. He had Dwight Chapin set up a meeting with Humphrey just days after the election, and as the meeting ended, Chapin saw a side of Nixon few others ever saw. Richard Nixon had known bitter defeat in elections even closer than this, and he was magnanimous in victory. That's the White House number, and ask to speak to the president.'" "And I had no idea what to do! So I asked Rose Woods, who was Nixon's secretary, She said, 'Call 456-1414 in Washington. Nixon immediately had an unexpected order for his personal aide, Dwight Chapin: "Get President Johnson on the phone." The announcement would narrow the polls dramatically. "As president I would stop the bombing of the North, as an acceptable risk for peace." "I want to talk with you about Vietnam," the Vice President said. Nixon was up, way up in the polls, until September 30, when Humphrey turned the tide with a speech repudiating President Johnson's war policy. "We have planned it and programmed it and have had the time to carry it out." "We do operate, I believe, in an orderly fashion, and that comes from preparation," Mitchell said then. He traveled with an entourage of managers and message men, overseen by John Mitchell. ![]() Worthless? "Well, proved to be worth something, but at the time, it looked like it was poisoned."īy contrast, Nixon's campaign ran with military-grade discipline. "He finally had his chance, and the nomination was worthless," Mondale said. Vice President Hubert Humphrey won the nomination, but as his old friend, then-Senator Walter Mondale remembers, it didn't mean much. While the cops were outside clubbing demonstrators on the head, delegates were inside shooting themselves in the foot. The Democrats had their calamitous convention in Chicago. Nixon accepted the Republican nomination in August of 1968, just a few weeks before his biggest break yet. "Did he seem surprised?" asked Schlesinger. "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president."īuchanan recalled telling Nixon on board the candidate's plane that, after his Republican competitors had dropped out, now the Democratic president had, too. But just two months after Nixon got into the race, luckily for him everything changed. The plan was to run against Lyndon Johnson, the incumbent president. He told CBS News' Mike Wallace, "Those who have lost elections in the past have come back to win. Nixon was ready to get kicked around again, but he still had a lot of kick left in him. ![]()
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