I had thought that Richard Nixon had quietly accepted defeat in 1960 even with rumours of voter fraud---doesn't seem to be the case if you go to the above two sites and read them. His Popular vote was only 117,000 less then Kennedy's---
California was originally named for Kennedy--but on November 17th after the absentee ballots came in the state went to Nixon--though it wasn't enough to make Nixon the electoral winner or the popular vote winner.
" Within three days of the election,
the GOP chairman had called for investigations and recounts in 11 states.
Recounts were mounted, grand juries were empanelled, and the FBI was called in. The press also investigated the charges."
"Completed Dec. 9, the recount of 863 precincts showed that the original tally had
Nixon's (and Adamowski's) votes, but only by 943, far from the 4,500 needed to alter the results. In fact, in 40 percent of the rechecked precincts, Nixon's vote was overcounted. Displeased, the Republicans took the case to federal court, only to have a judge dismiss the suits. Still undeterred, they turned to the State Board of Elections, which was composed of four Republicans,
including the governor, and one Democrat. Yet the state board, too, unanimously
rejected the petition, citing the GOP's failure to provide even a single affidavit on its behalf. The national party finally backed off after Dec. 19, when the nation's
Electoral College certified Kennedy as the new president—but even then local Republicans wouldn't accept the Illinois results."
posted on November 12, 2000 06:12:13 AM new
Tricky Dicky was never one to give up quietly.
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I never had one, and I didn't want one, and I don't, so now I do...
