9. He Is One Of Only Two People To Appear On A US National Presidential Ticket Five Times
Alongside Franklin D Roosevelt, Nixon is one of only two people to have ever appeared on a national presidential ticket on five separate occasions. FDR originally ran and lost as the vice-presidential candidate on Democratic James Cox's ticket in 1920, before he won a record four presidential elections himself (1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944) and served for 12 years in the Oval Office. Nixon, meanwhile, won as the vice-presidential candidate to Republican Dwight D Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, before losing his first presidential campaign against John F Kennedy in 1960, and then he won two presidential elections in 1968 (against Hurbert Humphrey) and in 1972 (against George McGovern).
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