The presidential election of 1968 was one of the most chaotic in ... easily winning the nomination at the Republican Convention. Nixon ran as the champion of the "silent majority," those who ...

We're going to win because this great convention has demonstrated to the nation that the Republican party has ... The choice we make in 1968 will determine not only the future of America but ...

The turbulence and in-fighting of 1968 severely wounded the party’s nominee, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who limped out of the convention and narrowly later lost to Republican Richard Nixon.

By the time the Republican National Convention arrived in Miami in August 1968, Chamberlain had become the highest-profile ...