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Richard Nixon had the highest popular vote % of any election

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Richard Nixon had the highest popular vote % of any election
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Emphasizing a good economy and his successes in foreign affairs, such as coming near to ending American involvement in the Vietnam War and establishing relations with China, Nixon decisively defeated McGovern. Overall, Nixon won 60.7% of the popular vote, a percentage only slightly lower than Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, but with a larger margin of victory in the popular vote (23.2%), the fourth largest in presidential election history. He received almost 18 million more popular votes than McGovern, the widest margin of any United States presidential election. McGovern only won the electoral votes of Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. No candidate since had managed to equal or surpass Nixon's total percentage or margin of the popular vote, and his electoral vote total and percentage has been surpassed only once, and his state total matched only once, by Ronald Reagan in 1984. @Curionic

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By 400 BC, Persian engineers had mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert

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By 400 BC, Persian engineers had mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert