After only about a month, Clinton postponed his plans to be a coordinator for the McGovern campaign for the 1972 United States presidential election in order to move in with her in California.

He heavily campaigned for George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election.

Much of the 20th century was dominated by one José María Velasco Ibarra, whose 5 presidential terms began with a mandate in 1934 and final presidency ended in 1972.

During the 1972 presidential election, James Brown openly proclaimed his support of Richard Nixon for reelection of the presidency over Democrat candidate George McGovern.

In 1973 Nasir was elected to a second term under the constitution as amended in 1972, which extended the presidential term to five years and which also provided for the election of the prime minister by the Majlis.

In writing the script, Paul Schrader was inspired by the diaries of Arthur Bremer ( who shot presidential candidate George Wallace in 1972 )< ref name =" PBS ">

Tonie Nathan, running as the Libertarian Party's vice-presidential candidate in the 1972 Presidential Election with John Hospers as the presidential candidate, was the first female candidate in the United States to win an electoral vote.

Essays on the most important elections are reprinted in Schlesinger, The Coming to Power: Critical presidential elections in American history ( 1972 )

At the tumultuous 1972 Democratic convention, presidential nominee George McGovern selected Senator Thomas Eagleton as his running mate, but numerous other candidates were either nominated from the floor or received votes during the balloting.

* Ceylon between 1948 and 1972, and Sri Lanka from 1972 until 1978 when the constitution was remodelled into a Executive presidential system.

* November 6 – United States presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59 % of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61 % victory in 1972.

Nixon's landslide victory in the electoral college during the U. S. presidential election, 1972 | 1972 Election.

* November 7 – U. S. presidential election, 1972: Republican incumbent Richard Nixon defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern in a landslide ( the election had the lowest voter turnout since 1948, with only 55 percent of the electorate voting ).

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During the 1972 presidential campaign, a letter was published that Smith had written to the Democratic U. S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, indicating Smith's full support for Muskie.

After the Congressional reapportionment following the 1810 census, New York would have the most electoral votes for the first time, and it would continue to have the most votes until the presidential election of 1972.

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Eastwood registered as a Republican to vote for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and endorsed Richard Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns.

In the 1972 presidential election, opponents of military rule united under José Napoleón Duarte, leader of the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ).

Spock was the People's Party candidate in the 1972 United States presidential election with a platform that called for free medical care, the repeal of " victimless crime " laws, including the legalization of abortion, homosexuality, and marijuana, a guaranteed minimum income for families and the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from foreign countries.

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The 1972 presidential election was blatantly manipulated to deny Jose Napoleon Duarte a certain victory.

" Bowie declared himself gay in an interview with Michael Watts in the 22 January 1972 issue of Melody Maker, a move which coincided with the first shots in his campaign for stardom as Ziggy Stardust.

After the demise of BSA in 1972, Cheney joined with former BSA factory rider John Banks to develop and campaign a highly successful BSA powered motocross bike.

Eric Bogle wrote a popular song, " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda " ( 1972 ), after watching in Australia a parade of elderly veterans of the Gallipoli campaign.

* 1972 – Operation Linebacker, a US bombing campaign against North Vietnam in response to its Easter Offensive, ends after five months.

The Federal Election Campaign Act ( FECA ) of 1972 required candidates to disclose sources of campaign contributions and campaign expenditures.

* Hubert H. Humphrety at the Macedonian Baptist Church, San Francisco, May 23, 1972 Photographs by Bruce Jackson of Humphrey on his last campaign.

The world's first political parties to campaign on a predominantly environmental platform were the United Tasmania Group which contested the April 1972 state election in Tasmania, Australia and the Values Party of New Zealand, which contested the November 1972 New Zealand general election.

During the 1972 campaign, many popular West German artists, intellectuals, writers, actors and professors supported Brandt and the SPD.

Half spoken word poem and half tape-recorded sounds, the song documented Baez's visit to Hanoi, North Vietnam, in December 1972, during which she and her traveling companions survived the 11-day long Christmas Bombings campaign over Hanoi and Haiphong.

The Canadian New Democratic Party picked up the term as a major theme in its 1972 federal election campaign.

In January 1972, G. Gordon Liddy, general counsel to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President ( CRP ), presented a campaign intelligence plan to CRP's Acting Chairman Jeb Stuart Magruder, Attorney General John Mitchell, and Presidential Counsel John Dean, that involved extensive illegal activities against the Democratic Party.

McMahon lost his nerve, and in the December 1972 election campaign, he was outperformed by Whitlam and subjected to further humiliation in the press.

In Burundi, a campaign of genocide was conducted against Hutu population in 1972, and an estimated 100, 000 Hutus died.

Near the war's end in December 1972, President Richard Nixon ordered Operation Linebacker II, a high-intensity Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps aerial bombing campaign, which included hundreds of B-52 bombers that struck previously untouched North Vietnamese strategic targets, including heavy populated areas in Hanoi and Haiphong.

The U. S. incursion into Cambodia in May 1970 to eliminate North Vietnamese sanctuaries, the renewed bombing of North Vietnam and the mining of its harbors in the spring of 1972 in response to a North Vietnamese offensive, and another bombing campaign against the North in December 1972 brought widespread protest.

Prior to that, he was a noted New York municipal bond lawyer, director of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, and one of Nixon's closest personal friends ; after his tenure as Attorney General, he served as director of Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign.

Mitchell remained in office from 1969 until he resigned in 1972 to manage President Nixon's successful reelection campaign.

Although he was ultimately unsuccessful in his campaign, in 1972 his hometown of Pekin started holding an annual Marigold Festival in his memory, and now calls itself the " Marigold Capital of the World ".

Johnson won the presidency by a landslide with 61 percent of the vote and the then-widest popular margin in the 20th century — more than 15 million votes ( this was later surpassed by incumbent President Nixon's defeat of Senator McGovern in 1972 ).

* Avon Williams ( 1921 – 1993 ), Tennessee State Senator, 1972 – 1992

In 1972, Senator James L. Buckley ( New York ) obtained a copy of Czechoslovakia 1968 to show on New York television stations.

In 1972, the thirty-three year old Berríos was elected to his first term as Senator.

* Elaine Schwartzenburg Edwards, first wife of Edwin Edwards and appointed U. S. Senator from August-November 1972

* Elaine Schwartzenburg Edwards-US Senator in 1972

She was eventually invited to organize a fund-raising dinner for the 1972 presidential campaign of U. S. Senator Ed Muskie of Maine.

* During the 1972 U. S. presidential election, Donald H. Segretti, a political operative for President Richard Nixon's reelection campaign, released a faked letter, on Senator Edmund Muskie's letterhead, falsely alleging that Senator Henry " Scoop " Jackson, against whom Muskie was running for the Democratic Party's nomination, had had an illegitimate child with a seventeen-year-old.

In 1971 the radio stations came under public spotlight once again when prominent U. S. Senator Clifford Case introduced Senate Bill 18, which would remove funding for RFE and RL from the CIA's budget, appropriate $ 30 million to pay for fiscal year 1972 activities, and have the Department of State temporarily oversee the radio stations.

In 1972 U. S. President Richard Nixon, under pressure from Senator Jackson, dismissed the head of the U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency ( ACDA ) and replaced him with Fred Ikle.

John Netherland Heiskell ( November 2, 1872 – December 28, 1972 ) was the second U. S. Senator to reach the age of 100.

Dole first met her future husband, Senator Bob Dole, in the spring of 1972 at a meeting arranged by her boss and mentor, Virginia Knauer.

In April 1973, Koch coined the term " Watergate Seven " when, in response to U. S. Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr .' s indicating that one of the men in Watergate scandal had been ordered in the spring of 1972 to keep certain Senators and Representatives under surveillance, posted a sign on the door of his United States Congress office saying, ' These premises were surveilled by the Watergate Seven.

* John Henry Cutler ( 1972 ), Ed Brooke: Biography of a Senator.

* The Canuck letter became a focal point during the US 1972 Democratic primaries, when a letter published in the Manchester Union Leader implied Democratic contender Senator Edmund Muskie was prejudiced against French-Canadians.

* J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. 1953 — U. S. Senator from Louisiana, 1972 to 1997 ; Washington, D. C .- based lobbyist

Currently the co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative ( NTI ), a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Nunn served for 24 years as a United States Senator from Georgia ( 1972 until 1997 ) as a member of the Democratic Party.

He was elected to the United States Senate in 1972, defeating appointed U. S. Senator David H. Gambrell in the Democratic primary and U. S. Rep. Fletcher Thompson in the general election.

He switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party in 1971, and launched a brief but unsuccessful bid for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination as well as the 1980 Democratic nomination for Senator from New York.

In the 1972 Democratic primary, Bumpers easily defeated two opponents, including the highly regarded State Senator Q. Byrum Hurst of Hot Springs.