United States Presidential Election, 1968 (Papa Mac)

The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1964. President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, defeated Democratic nominee Lyndon Johnson.

Although Johnson was the most liberal candidate since William O. Douglas in 1952 (although his running mate, Fielding L. Wright, was extremely conservative), and this election the starkest choice since then, Nixon's succeeding of deceased President John Hoover helped entrench the nearly one-party state during the decades-long Great War.