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 ...

But in 1968, remember, Reagan was governor of California — and already a presidential contender. Indeed, he got some votes at the Republican convention, which preceded the Democratic.

The presidential election of 1968 was one of the most chaotic in ... easily winning the nomination at the Republican Convention. Nixon ran as the champion of the "silent majority," those who ...

(TIME, August 16, 1968) -- As they start on the road to ... These are the chief questions that emerge from the Republican Convention and will dominate the political scene for the next 2 1/2 ...

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 ...

San Diego has never hosted a national political convention, and California has not hosted a Republican convention since 1964, when Barry Goldwater was nominated in San Francisco. Current ...