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Richard Nixon: Campaigns
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When the '68 campaign began, Nixon was at 42 percent, Humphrey at 29 percent, Wallace at 22 percent. When it ended, Nixon and Humphrey were tied at 43 percent, with Wallace at 13 percent. The 9 percent of the national vote that had been peeled off from Wallace had gone to Humphrey.
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One of Nixon's 1962 campaign tactics was held illegal by a California court in 1964. Some 500,000 postcards mailed to Democrats were misrepresented as being from a group of conservative Democrats opposed to Governor Brown. The cards contained a request for money. The judge held that the mailing sought "to obtain from registered Democrats votes and money for the campaign of Richard M. Nixon" and that the poll was "approved by Mr. Nixon personally." The defendants, who did not specifically include Nixon, were enjoined from using such tactics again.
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During the presidential campaign Nixon promised to negotiate the end of the Vietnam War. However, negotiations with North Vietnam at the Paris peace talks were unproductive and Nixon decided to escalate the war by bombing National Liberation Front bases in Cambodia . In an effort to avoid international protests at this action, it was decided to keep information about these raids hidden. Pilots were sworn to secrecy and operational logs were falsified.
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[I]f Nixon won in 1962, he would have the excuse that he was too busy running the state. If he lost, he could plead a desire not to campaign again so soon. In either case, Brown won handily.
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Nixon's victory in California, then the second most populous state, enhanced his national recognition, although the exaggerated charges he had used against his opponent in the Senate campaign supplied Democrats with anti-Nixon material for years to come. In 1951 and 1952 he averaged nearly a dozen speeches each month at Republican meetings, where his youth, his ability to dramatize issues, and his vigorous oratorical style were received favorably.
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