Henry Cabot Lodge Jr (Nixon Contests)

1968 Presidential election:
He ran on Nixon’s popularity but also his own, he was a natural pick for the Republican Party, he chose Nelson Rockefeller as his running mate. He beat Edmund Muskie and George McGovern as his running mate by 20%.

Term:
He really focused on the Vietnam War even though he lost a lot of men he pressured Laos into joining the Indochinese Kingdom. He managed to drop poverty down by 12% and homelessness by 8%. With a booming economy he bought British Columbia and Yukon for 71 Million. In 1971 he say his popularity had decreased so he didn’t run again ending the 20 years of Republican domination in the White House.