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In 1968, Wilt Chamberlain was the biggest basketball star in the world and Richard Nixon was the Republican candidate for ...

Marked by turmoil, tragedy and triumph, 1968 was a roller coaster ... lost his party’s nomination and Richard Nixon became President No. 37, laying bare a fractured political climate.

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger saw that South Vietnam ... But Nixon finally put an end to Johnson’s insane bombing halt of March 1968 and launched 1,000 air strikes a day on North Vietnam ...

Parallels to 1968 are irresistible both because of the locale of the Chicago convention and because Democratic disarray over Vietnam did help Richard Nixon win the presidency. It fits a ...

Wallace (American Independent), and Richard M. Nixon (R). “They must be teaching anarchy in the ... Members of SDS protested the 1968 election with a mock funeral procession. Anti-Wallace ...

In contrast to Republican Richard Nixon’s slick, carefully-orchestrated ... Throughout much of the early campaign in 1968, Wallace’s wife and governor of Alabama, Lurleen Wallace, was gravely ...