1960s Timeline

Nov. 3, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon, predicting victory in Tuesday’s election, pressed his campaign for Governor of California tonight with a...

Oct. 27, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon (pictured with Fidel Castro in 1959) fully endorsed President Kennedy’s “strong action” on Cuba tonight....

Oct. 23, 1962 - Dwight D. Eisenhower called on all Americans today to assist President Kennedy in the present crisis. He said: “As in all...

Oct. 19, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon’s Victory Special train rode slowly through booming southern California today as its star passenger...

Oct. 15, 1962 - Former President Eisenhower attacked tonight the Kennedy Administration’s “dreary foreign record of the past 21 months”...

Oct. 9, 1962 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower (pictured with President-elect Kennedy in January 1961) turned his Western tour into an...

Oct. 8, 1962 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower accused President Kennedy today of seeking “one-party government” in his demands for more...

Sept. 18, 1962 - Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon (pictured in Los Angeles) called today for a quarantine of Cuba to halt the flow...

Sept. 16, 1962 - As the California gubernatorial campaign between the Democrat incumbent, Edmund G. Brown (left), and the Republican...

Sept. 14, 1962 - Senator Barry Goldwater assailed today President Kennedy’s handling of the Cuban situation and asserted that “the...

Sept. 12, 1962 - Former President Harry S. Truman said today that Richard M. Nixon planned to use “every device and means of political...

Sept. 12, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon opened his big drive for the California governorship today by stressing communism, a subject that...

Sept. 8, 1962 - Former President Harry S. Truman (pictured in 1953) declared tonight that the country was “now paying the penalty for...

Aug. 13, 1962 - George Romney, Republican candidate for Governor of Michigan, ruled himself out today as a Presidential contender in...

Aug. 11, 1962 - Richard M. Nixon, faced with a make-or-break campaign for Governor of California, has summoned Murray Chotiner (pictured...

Aug. 6, 1962 - Former President Eisenhower has assailed what he calls the Kennedy Administration’s “crash program” to put a man on the...

July 23, 1962 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (pictured on June 5, 1944) and his grandchildren viewed the Normandy battlefield and some of...

June 30, 1962 - Former President Eisenhower said today that the Republicans were the party of business and that he was “proud of the...

June 23, 1962 - Former President Eisenhower (pictured with President Kennedy in March) said last night that the Kennedy Administration...

June 18, 1962 - President Kennedy was a “puppet who echoed his speechmaker” when he ran for the Presidency, according to Richard M....