No wonder Nixon didn’t challenge the 1960 election.
I just got a PM about my post 2 from someone who didn’t know it was a joke and thought that it was a serious post about Nixon’s reason for not challenging the 1960 election.
In case there are others thinking it was a serious post, it wasn’t, I thought the article headline made the wise crack about the 1960 election and Nixon an obvious chuckle-worthy joke.
RE: No wonder Nixon didn’t challenge the 1960 election.
In one interview many years later Nixon was asked if the crucial Illinois ballots counted in Mayor Daley’s Chicago that somehow went against him with information from people that boxes of GOP area ballots were dumped into the river should have caused him to protest the ballot count and thus win the country.
He said “I can’t feel sorry for what happened. I lost. Had I won it might have turned out I would have been the one assassinated.”
Nixon should have challenged it.