CNN Our Nixon August 5, 2013 08:23:00
>> president nixon's victory in the election is surely one of the biggest landslides ever. let's look at the popular vote now with almost all of it counting. with 98% of the precincts reporting, it's nixon, 45,800,000. mcgovern 28,400,000. this adds up to a record-breaking 521 electoral votes for president nixon who won 49 states. mcgovern carried only massachusetts and the district of columbia for 17 electoral votes. >> at first it was called the watergate caper. five men apparently caught in the act of burglarizing and bugging democratic headquarters
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