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 M. Nixon was one of the two most successful national politicians in American history. He won four national elections, twice for the vice presidency and twice for the presidency.Only Franklin D. Roosevelt won as many national elections as Nixon.s vice-president, Gerald R. Ford^ was sworn in as Nixon`s successor and on September 8, 1974, announced that Nixon was being pardoned for all crimes that he might have committed during his presidency, thereby ending any threat of prosecution.