Answer of the DayWas Nixon ever governor of California? "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." That's what
Richard M. Nixon told reporters on this date in 1962, having just failed in a bid to become governor of California. He never did become governor. But six years later, he was elected President of the United States over incumbent vice-president
Hubert H. Humphrey. Then, on this date in 1972, Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat
George McGovern. And a year after that, in 1973, his world began to crumble when reporters began to research a break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters at the
Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC. The
Watergate scandal that unfolded brought down Nixon's presidency. He resigned from the presidency on August 9, 1974.