Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Election

During the 1960 election, there were suspicions of fraud in Texas and evidence of fraud in Illinois. Nixon insisted he was robbed. As Slate reports, at a 1960 Christmas party, he was heard greeting guests by saying, “We won, but they stole it from us.” A grudge was born that lasted into the Watergate years and beyond. Mayor of Chicago Richard Daley was rumored to run a system of Chicago corruption alleged for delivering massive Democratic victories. These allegations of fraud created the lasting rumor of dead voters in Chicago.