1968 election


In 1968 their was a election against Richard Nixon and Humphrey. It was a hard time between the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. , all the race riots going on and violent confrontation between police ad anti-war protesters. On November 5, 1968, the vice president Richard Nixon won the election over the vice president Hubert Humphrey. Nixon ran a campaign that promised to restore "law and order".The 1968 election was also the last election in which two opposing candidates were vice presidents.