Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1968. The Republican ticket of former Vice President Richard Nixon and Maryland governor Spiro Agnew defeated the Democratic ticket
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Hubert Humphrey in New York, 1968
Lyndon B. Johnson, the incumbent president in 1968, whose second and only full term expired at noon on January 20, 1969
From February 3 to July 13, 1968, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1968 United States presidential election. Former Vice President Richard Nixon was selected as th
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Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland (endorsed Nixon)
Governor Dewey F. Bartlett of Oklahoma (endorsed Nixon)