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When the high court convenes on Dec. 11, the day after may be seen as a drop-dead date for designating electors. But there is precedent for delay. Congress accepted Hawaii's electors for JFK after a late recount showed him finally beating Nixon...
...some Republicans worried that the popularity of John Lennon could help galvanize the anti-war movement and result in a massive vote against Nixon. On February 4, 1972, Senator Strom Thurmond sent a secret memo (later brought to light via a Freedom Of Information Act request) in which he railed about Lennon and the danger he could cause the President's 1972 reelection campaign. The proposed solution? Revoke Lennon's visa. "If Lennon's visa is terminated it would be a strategy (sic) counter-measure." But, Thurmond noted, "caution must be taken with regard to the possible alienation...
...that is where we are. And we are here because Mr. Gore couldn't do what Richard Nixon did: announce, the morning after the election, that he would accept the official outcome. Great harm has been done by Gore's decision, and more is no doubt coming. If he manages to finagle his way to the presidency, his Administration is likely to prove true a dark saying: When you want...
...issue is judicial supremacy. We acquiesce to it for one very good reason. The reason is not theoretical (it being hard to understand why the one unelected branch should be supreme over the other two) but practical. We all need a place where the buck stops. When Nixon and Congress were at odds over the White House tapes, the supremacy of the Supreme Court enabled a final resolution of the issue...
...work on 2004. Richard Nixon, having lost to John Kennedy in 1960 by a margin of problematic votes, worked for eight years in the Republican wilderness, speaking to every Rotary and Kiwanis that would have him. But Nixon had more ground to make up. He was defeated in the California race for Governor in 1962; an aura of redoubled loser clung to him like 5 o'clock shadow. It was early 1968 before he looked like a winner again...