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Richard Nixon: States
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Nixon won 32 states, Humphrey 13 plus the District of Columbia, and Wallace 5 in the Deep South. Although he barely edged Humphrey in the popular vote, 31,770,237 to 31,270,533, Nixon received 301 electoral votes, to 191 for Humphrey and 46 for Wallace. Wallace received 9,906,141 popular votes.
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Nixon's most notable domestic actions were on the economic front. In 1971, he imposed a price-wage freeze to combat inflation. He ... removed the United States from the gold standard. The price-wage freeze was lifted after 90 days to be replaced by complex systems of wage-price controls. Almost all controls were lifted by the end of 1973.
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On January 2, 1974, Nixon signed a bill that lowered the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 miles per hour (90 km/h) in order to conserve gasoline during the 1973 energy crisis. This law remained in effect until 1995, though states had been allowed to raise the limit to 65 miles per hour in rural areas since 1987.
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