{"id":2629,"date":"2008-11-21T13:14:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T18:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2008-11-21T18:03:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T23:03:45","slug":"looking-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/21\/looking-back-again\/","title":{"rendered":"looking back [1972]…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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United States presidential election, 1972<\/strong><\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
November 7, 1972<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Nominee<\/td>\nRichard Nixon<\/strong><\/td>\nGeorge McGovern<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Party<\/td>\nRepublican<\/td>\nDemocratic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Home state<\/td>\nCalifornia<\/td>\nSouth Dakota<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Running mate<\/td>\nSpiro Agnew<\/strong><\/td>\nSargent Shriver<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Electoral vote<\/td>\n520<\/strong><\/td>\n17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
States carried<\/td>\n49<\/strong><\/td>\n1+DC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Popular vote<\/td>\n47,168,710<\/strong><\/td>\n29,173,222<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Percentage<\/td>\n60.7%<\/strong><\/td>\n37.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"United<\/span> <\/p>\n

Presidential election results map. Red<\/font><\/strong> denotes states won by Nixon\/Agnew, Blue<\/font><\/strong> denotes those won by McGovern\/Shriver. Grey<\/font><\/strong> is the electoral vote for John Hospers by a Virginia faithless elector. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes<\/span> allotted to each state.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Spiro Theodore Agnew<\/strong><\/a>  was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States, serving under President Richard M. Nixon<\/span>, and the 55th Governor of Maryland… During his fifth year as Vice President, in the late summer 1973, Agnew was under investigation by the U.S. Attorney<\/span>’s office in Baltimore, Maryland<\/span>, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery, and conspiracy. In October, he was formally charged with having accepted bribes totaling more than $100,000, while holding office as Baltimore County Executive, governor of Maryland, and Vice President of the United States. On October 10, 1973, Agnew was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge that he had failed to report $29,500 of income received in 1967, with the condition that he resign the office of Vice President. Agnew is to date the only Vice President in U.S. history to resign because of criminal charges. Ten years after leaving office, in January 1983, Agnew paid the state of Maryland nearly $270,000 as a result of a civil suit that stemmed from the bribery allegations.<\/p>\n

Richard Milhous Nixon<\/strong><\/a> was the thirty-seventh President of the United States, and the only president to ever resign from office… The House Judiciary Committee<\/span>, controlled by Democrats, opened formal and public impeachment hearings against Nixon on May 9, 1974. Despite his efforts, one of the secret recordings, known as the Smoking Gun Tape, was released on August 5, 1974, and revealed that Nixon authorized hush money<\/span> to Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt and had administrations officials try to have the FBI<\/span> investigation stopped. In light of his loss of political support and the near certainty of both his impeachment and conviction, Nixon resigned the office of the presidency on August 9, 1974, after addressing the nation on television the previous evening. <\/span>He never admitted to criminal wrongdoing, although he later conceded errors of judgment.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

United States presidential election, 1972 November 7, 1972 Nominee Richard Nixon George McGovern Party Republican Democratic Home state California South Dakota Running mate Spiro Agnew Sargent Shriver Electoral vote 520 17 States carried 49 1+DC Popular vote 47,168,710 29,173,222 Percentage 60.7% 37.5% Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Nixon\/Agnew, Blue denotes those won by McGovern\/Shriver. Grey is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}