Philip Terzian, Weekly Standard
In the past half-century, there have been two presidential elections that Democrats should have won by a landslide but did not.The first was in 1976. If there ever was a year when the stars were aligned to scuttle the Republican candidate, our bicentennial year was it. The economy was in chronic stagnation and inflationâ??a condition then known, but since forgotten, as stagflationâ??and Richard Nixon and his vice president, Spiro Agnew, had both resigned in disgrace. By grace of the recently enacted 25th Amendment, the executive branch was governed by two men (Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller)…
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