Richard Nixon & Spiro Agnew 1968 Campaign Button set (3).

  Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. Known as Richard M. Nixon for most of his career, he was a member of the Republican Party who previously served as a representative and senator from California and was the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961. President NIxon had many accomplishments including lowering the voting age, establishing the Environmental Protection Agency, ending the draft, ending the Vietnam war, establishing relations with China and much more. He won the 1968 election in a historic landslide. In spite of making more accomplishments than most average presidents, most people think of the Watergate scandal when thinking of Nixon. Ironically Watergate was small compared to the scandals during President Clinton and currently under President Biden. In fact after the attempts to overthrow President Trump were exposed some have said that Nixon's downfall was a successful overthrow of a U.S. President. In both cases the CIA, FBI, the news media (even one of the same reporters) and operatives in the Democratic Party and Republican Party were involved.

  Spiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second vice president to resign the position, the other being John C. Calhoun in 1832. In many ways he was considered an political outsider. Agnew was born in Baltimore to a Greek immigrant father and an American mother. Also forced out of office. The Nixon/ Agnew administration was replaced with more establishment politicians.

  The Nixon/Agnew ticket carried 49 of the 50 states in the 1968 election.