The 1968 Chicago convention became a lacerating event ... all shared an abiding pessimism over their prospects against a Republican Party that had coalesced behind Richard M.

We're going to win because this great convention has demonstrated to the nation that the Republican party has ... The choice we make in 1968 will determine not only the future of America but ...

MIAMI BEACH, Aug. 5--If you are searching for hoopla at the Republican National Convention you won't be disappointed; miniskirted Rockefeller girls, Nixon men on stilts costumed as Uncle Same ...

Right now, presidential candidates are crisscrossing the country, begging primary voters for their support. So it's easy to forget that not too long ago, these voters had no say in who their party ...

The 1968 Democratic National Convention took place from Aug. 26 ... Democratic candidate for president—he went on to lose to Republican Richard M. Nixon. Meanwhile, federal prosecutors went ...

Red, white and bruising: at the 1968 Democratic National Convention ... Barry Goldwater supporters at the 1964 Republican National Convention. Truman committed the Democrats to civil rights.

By the time the Republican National Convention arrived in Miami in August 1968, Chamberlain had become the highest-profile Black surrogate in Nixon’s campaign. During his first presidential ...