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 Milhous Nixon, the thirty-seventh President of the United States (1969-74) became President in 1969 after defeating Lyndon Johnson's Vice-President, Hubert Humphrey, in one of the closest elections in US history. Nixon won that election by only one percent of the popular vote.