The ‘72 Election
The Major Democratic
Candidates
George Mcgovern
George Wallace
Hubert Humphrey
In shooting Governor George Wallace of Alabama, Arthur
Bremer earned himself 35 years in a Federal prison and
altered the course of the ‘72 election. Wallace was
paralyzed by one of the four bullets that hit him, and was
forced to drop out of the race.
When asked about demonstrators,
George Wallace is famously quoted
as having said, “If any
demonstrator ever lays down in
front of my car, it’ll be the last car
he’ll ever lay down in front of.”
The major Republican
Candidates
John Ashbrook
Harold Stassen
As the incumbent, Richard Milhouse Nixon was virtually unchallenged
in his race for the Republican nomination. He beat his minor
adversaries John Ashbrook of Ohio and Harold Stassen of Minnesota.
Tom Eagleton’s shocking truth
Tom Eagleton was George McGovern’s
running mate as vice presidential
candidate. Records from his past
proved that he had on more than one
occasion undergone electro-shock
therapy. This shocked the American
people, and McGovern (in an attempt to
redeem his campaign) replaced him
with Sargent Shriver.
Sargent Shriver
Spiro Agnew was Richard Nixon’s
vice presidential candidate. During
Nixon’s presidency he would resign,
leading to Gerald Ford’s
appointment as vice president , and
then by way of Nixon’s resignation,
President.
Mcgovern
versus
Nixon ‘72
George McGovern’s platform was
based on pulling American troops out
of Vietnam, recovering American
POWs, and amnesty for draft evaders
who had left the country.
Richard Nixon’s platform was
based on a slow withdraw
from Vietnam and a heavy
campaign against ‘busing.’
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelecti
on.php?year=1972
As you can see by this map, Richard Nixon won almost every state
including George Mcgovern’s home state of South Dakota. Mcgovern
carried only Massachusetts and the District of Colombia. Follow the link
posted for a numerical value of votes.
The 1972 election was also the
home of the Watergate scandal.
In June of 1972, the Watergate
hotel was broken into by several of
Nixon’s aides. The hotel was
serving as the Democratic
headquarters at that time.
Richard Nixon’s telephone
correspondence had been
recorded from the white house,
and the tapes were subpoenaed by
the supreme court. The white
house instead presented the tapes
in writing, with an 18 minute
portion blank. This was
attributed to Nixon’s secretary
Rose Mary Woods who
‘accidently’ wiped that section
while transcribing the tapes.
Watergate Hotel
Works Cited
http://www.nohillaryclinton.com/blog/blog_images/GeorgeMcgovern.jpg
http://www.americanheritage.com/assets/images/articles/web/20051117-nixon.jpg
http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/09/15/wallace_talks.jpg
http://www.christers.net/veeps/hubert-humphrey.jpg
http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/webpics/Arthur_Bremer.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargent_Shriver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1972
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WatergateFromAir.JPG