Presidential Chronicles

Episode #395: Richard Nixon #8: Back-to-Back Defeats (1960-1962)

18 min · 10. juli 2026
episode Episode #395: Richard Nixon #8: Back-to-Back Defeats (1960-1962) cover

Description

Richard Nixon #8: Back-to-Back Defeats (1960-1962); Topics covered include: 1960 president election, Republican National Convention, relationship between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, religion in the campaign, the first televised presidential debates, outcome of the election, Nixon returns to the law and writes his first memoirs, the Bay of Pigs, Nixon runs for Governor of California and loses, and Nixon's "final" press conference Key people include: Nelson Rockefeller, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Theodore White, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Robert Kennedy, Earl Adams, Alger Hiss, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Tom Dewey, Edmund Brown, and Herb Klein Correction at 12:51. After the 1960 election, the Nixons moved to Los Angeles (not San Clemente). For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Comments

0

Be the first to comment

Sign up now and become a member of the Presidential Chronicles community!

Get Started

1 month for 9 kr.

Then 99 kr. / month · Cancel anytime.

  • Podcasts kun på Podimo
  • 20 lydbogstimer pr. måned
  • Gratis podcasts

All episodes

397 episodes

episode Episode #396: Richard Nixon #9: All the Way Back (including the Anna Chennault Affair) (1963-1968) artwork

Episode #396: Richard Nixon #9: All the Way Back (including the Anna Chennault Affair) (1963-1968)

Richard Nixon #9: All the Way Back (including the Anna Chennault Affair) (1963-1968); Topics covered include: Family vacation in Europe; move to New York and new law firm; assassination of John Kennedy; 1964 election; 1966 midterm elections; early views on China; 1968 election including Nixon's nomination, divineness with the Democrats, and Hubert Humphrey's nomination; the Chennault Affair (Johnson's attempts to end the Vietnam War before the U.S. election and the apparent attempts by the Nixon campaign to thwart those efforts), and the election of Richard Nixon as President of the United States Key people include: Pat Nixon, Tricia Nixon, Julie Nixon, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller, Spiro Agnew, Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Martin Luther King, Nguyen Thieu, George Wallace, Anna Chennault, John Mitchell, Everett Dirksen, John Farrell, Bob Haldeman, and Tom Huston For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

Yesterday14 min
episode Episode #395: Richard Nixon #8: Back-to-Back Defeats (1960-1962) artwork

Episode #395: Richard Nixon #8: Back-to-Back Defeats (1960-1962)

Richard Nixon #8: Back-to-Back Defeats (1960-1962); Topics covered include: 1960 president election, Republican National Convention, relationship between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy, religion in the campaign, the first televised presidential debates, outcome of the election, Nixon returns to the law and writes his first memoirs, the Bay of Pigs, Nixon runs for Governor of California and loses, and Nixon's "final" press conference Key people include: Nelson Rockefeller, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Theodore White, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Robert Kennedy, Earl Adams, Alger Hiss, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Tom Dewey, Edmund Brown, and Herb Klein Correction at 12:51. After the 1960 election, the Nixons moved to Los Angeles (not San Clemente). For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

10. juli 202618 min
episode Episode #394: Richard Nixon #7: One of the More Consequential Vice Presidencies (1953-1960) artwork

Episode #394: Richard Nixon #7: One of the More Consequential Vice Presidencies (1953-1960)

Richard Nixon #7: One of the More Consequential Vice Presidencies (1953-1960); Topics covered include: Inauguration of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, Nixon's primary roles as VP, trip to Asia/Middle East, 1954 midterm elections, Eisenhower's heart attack, election of 1956, Eisenhower's illnesses, trip to Latin America, facing Communist protestors in Peru and violent Communist protestors in Caracas, Venezuela, 1958 midterm election, and Nixon's trip to Moscow including the "Kitchen Debate" with Nikita Khrushchev Key people include: Dwight Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, Murray Chotiner, John Foster Dulles, James Haggerty, Adlai Stevenson, Vernon Walters, John Sherwood, Nikita Khrushchev, and Harrison Salisbury For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

9. juli 202617 min
episode Episode #392: Richard Nixon #5: "Tricky Dick" on the Rise (1950-1952) artwork

Episode #392: Richard Nixon #5: "Tricky Dick" on the Rise (1950-1952)

Richard Nixon #5: "Tricky Dick" on the Rise (1950-1952); Topics covered include: California Senate campaign (1950), Nixon cruises to Republican nomination, after rough primary campaign Helen Gahagan Douglas emerges as Democratic nominee, Nixon links Douglas to Communism ("The Pink Sheet", Nixon wins senate seat, newcomers: close friend Charles "Bebe" Rebozo and new personal secretary Rose Mary Wood's, birth of Julie Nixon, Nixon attacks Harry Truman Administration, Dwight Eisenhower wins the Republican nomination for President (1952), and Nixon receives the Republican nomination for Vice President Key people include: Sheridan Downey, Earl Warren, William Knowland, Kyle Palmer, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Manchester Boddy, Vito Marcantonio, Murray Chotiner, Charles "Bebe" Rebozo, Rose Mary Woods, Pat Nixon, Tricia Nixon, Julie Nixon, Harry Truman, Thomas Dewey, Herbert Brownell, Dwight Eisenhower, and Robert Taft For more information on the "Presidential Chronicles" series, please visit https://www.presidentialchronicles.com/

7. juli 20269 min