 was nominated to be the vice president, and then it turned out he had gotten shock therapy treatments, and that was 1972, and that meant you were cuckoo. It doesn't mean that today, but it meant then. And so they dumped him from the ticket and added Sergeant Shriver, and Richard Nixon went to the greatest landslide victory in presidential history. He won the popular vote by almost 17 million votes. I know there's no such thing as a popular vote, but that's what they say.