July 20, 2007

Nixon's Final Campaign

By MICHAEL NELSON

Richard Nixon ran more campaigns for national office than any other American except Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom he tied. In the six presidential elections from 1952 to 1972, Nixon was on the ballot five times, as the Republican nominee for either vice president (1952 and 1956) or president (1960, 1968, 1972). He was elected twice as Dwight D. Eisenhower's running mate and twice as the head of the ticket, losing only to John F. Kennedy, in 1960. Another of Nixon's national political campaigns,

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