he was more moderate than jfk, more than george wallace and later hubert humphrey and certainly more than george mcgovern in 1972. he always represented the center. he had got to let it in 1960. i don't know how he would've handled cuba. it awful hard to play those hands out in retrospect. i know he would've supported the bay of pigs in beijing. he always claimed he would have never let it go wanted it go on and how fast way. it would've been gail the way isis invaded normandy. so you still might have had the missiles of october, but they might've been the missiles of april 1961 instead had this provoked a superpower confrontation. but he definitely was a calm her man in 1960. n not a great candidate. lost that race for a reason, that came really close and actually believe he actually won it. >> thank you, sir. >> you had said that one of nixon's most admirable traits was his resilience. there were two great comebacks in his career. one after leaving the presidency in 1960 and after watergate ofh course. how did he go about engineering, ask about engineering complex in light of the a

richard nixon builds a pretty formidable lead by september of 1968 over his democratic opponent hubert humphrey because lyndon johnson the sitting president has announced he's not going to run for re-election because of vietnam. all of a sudden the democratic party, democratic voters start coming home in the fall of 1968. the blue-collar union workers leave george wallace who is running as a third-party candidate and they start rowing back to the democratic party. eugene mccarthy antiwar folks started for giving humphrey because he does a little bit of a tiptoe towards a split without p.j. on vietnam will and the beginning of september richard nixon had this young guy who was a vote counter will and his name was alan greenspan. >> a good counter. >> alan greenspan sent some a memo and says he will be lucky if he wants a single state. been then lyndon johnson called nixon and then says we are seeing some progress on vietnam. i may institute a bombing. richard nixon was a false 1960 election because kennedy stole it from him and it seemed johnson in 1966 to an october surprise in the congressiona

he was more moderate than jfk and george wallace and hubert humphrey and george mcgovern. he always represented the stayed center. if he was elected in 1960, i don't know how he would've handled cuba. it's also hard to play those hands out in retrospect. i know he would've supportedhe w the invasion.wo he always claimed he would'vee never let go on the way kennedy did. it would've been a full-scale invasion the way ike innovate invaded normandy. you still might've had the missiles of october but they might abandon april 1961 instead if this had provoked a superpower confrontation. he definitely was a calmer man in 1960. not a great candidate. he lost that race for reason. he came really close and actually believed he could do one it. y >> thank you. >> you had said one of hisis most admirable traits was his resilience. there was two great comebacks. how did he go aboutco engineering these comebacks, and why did the american people largely accept them. >> the first come back none on to come back from 1960 to 1968 is a great comeback. in 1968, you can't believe the chaos tha

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