Richard Nixon was involved in politics.
Richard Nixon . He waged an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1960 , narrowly losing to John F. Kennedy , and lost a race for Governor of California to Pat Brown in 1962 . In 1968 , he ran for the presidency again and was elected by defeating incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey . He was reelected in one of the largest electoral landslides in U.S. history in 1972 , when he defeated George McGovern .