Start of my Senior year in high school, 1972 George McGovern was pretty far to the left. He wanted to end the Vietnam War.
The Democrats did back him after a pitched nomination contest. He won the nomination and ran for president, but lost badly in the general election only carrying the state of Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
Republican Richard Nixon won all other states, but by spring of my Senior year, he was embroiled in the Watergate Scandal.
By the summer, between my freshman and sophomore years in college, Nixon became the first US president to resign from office under threat of impeachment and possible removal from office.
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