YES NO 8 people found this helpful. â After the dot-com bubble burst and the real estate market crashed, trust in the American financial sector was at an all-time low, with many investors pulling out of the market.
Nixon wins presidential election. Eight years after being defeated by John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election, Richard Nixon defeats Hubert H. Humphrey and is elected president. Two years after losing to Kennedy, Nixon ran for governor of California and lost in a bitter campaign against Edmund G. (âPatâ) Brown.
Richard Nixon. Nixon redirects here. For other uses, see Nixon (disambiguation). Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 â April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office.